Through her blurry vision, as tears welled up in her eyes, Iris read his lips and she knew that he was true to his words. This was only the beginning.
Cane growled to see that she was in pain and her tears bothered him, thus he turned her body around and let her kneel on her knees, as he pressed her head into the soft pillow and started to undress her.
Her father did this to the women in his pack and let him watch everything.
He positioned himself behind her and readied himself. He would make her feel the pain, so she would know what kind of pain that he and his people had gone through.
It was great that the alpha had two children, thus he could torture them as he pleased. After all, that was how power worked, right?
On the other hand, Iris thrashed her body around when she felt her dress being torn apart so easily, as if the fabric was as soft as tissue. She shivered when the night wind caressed her bare skin, while she could feel his rough fingers gripping her thighs.
Iris realized what would happen to her and prepared herself for it, but then when she was faced with the horror, she couldn’t help but recoil in fear.
However, Cane stopped all of a sudden.
Iris didn’t know what happened, but he moved away from behind her, as the weight from the bed lifted. He got off the bed and Iris immediately grabbed a blanket to cover herself. His back was facing her, as he put on his pants back.
“What is that on your back?” He asked her, but because she couldn’t read his lips, she didn’t know what he was saying. “I am asking you what is that on your back? Who has done that to you?”
Cane knew that the alpha’s daughter was a runt, she had a problem with her health, therefore she rarely appeared in public.
During his time as a slave in this pack, he only saw her twice and didn’t pay much attention. Why should he? She was only a pale looking little girl, who always seemed gloomy.
“I asked you.” Cane turned around and faced Iris, he glared at her because she didn’t answer him.
The young girl was wrapping the blanket around her body, but he had seen her. She was so small and fragile, even a starved slave looked healthier than her.
How did they feed the alpha’s daughter all this time? And how could she have such glaring scars on her back?
Yes, her back was littered with scars.
As a shifter, she should have the ability to heal without any traces, unless you were injured by something made of silver, like the scar on Cane’s face.
But then, who would do that to the alpha’s daughter in her own pack?
“One more time, I’m asking you, who has done that to you?!” Cane couldn’t believe that he was being ignored by his own slave.
He marched across the room and forced her to face him, but he could see a glaring mark on her chin, where he gripped her earlier. It was red and slightly bleeding. She should have healed such a minor injury by now, why couldn’t she heal?
Cane frowned to see her ocean blue eyes. Her auburn hair covered half of her face and flowed onto the blanket that she used to wrap herself with.
“Answer me,” Cane hissed viciously.
“What?” Iris gulped down with so much difficulty, as she tightened her grip on her blanket, as if this was the only protection that she had, even though she knew that Cane would be able to get rid of it without breaking a sweat if he wanted to. “What question?”
Iris missed his question and now she was confused about how she should answer him.
On the other hand, Cane was not any less confused than she was, because he was frowning really hard now. His callousness was broken and he showed a little bit of emotion, aside from anger and hatred.
“Get out,” Cane finally said. “Get out of here.”
He knew everything about Iris’s brother, the next in line for the alpha of the pack, but he didn’t care much to find out about the little girl.
Cane let go of Iris and she scrambled away from the bed, but she was naked, since Cane had torn her dress apart.
“I… I will wear your shirt.” Iris saw Cane’s shirt on the floor and immediately wore it. She glanced at him, but he didn’t do anything to stop her.
The shirt that Iris wore when she walked out of Cane’s bedroom managed to cover her thighs halfway, which showed the difference in the body sizes of the two of them.
The guard that escorted her back to her cell was a different man from earlier and he didn’t drag her along, nor did he walk so quickly.
“You are so lucky the alpha didn’t do the things that he had done to your brother,” he said, glancing at Iris, but because she had her head down, she wouldn’t be able to get his words and this only made him sigh. “How can someone like you be born to such a cruel alpha?”
He knew that Iris couldn’t hear him, this was not a secret and people that interacted with her this past week would know about that clearly.
Meanwhile, Iris was staring at the dark sky, she looked at the crescent moon. The moon goddess. If God really existed, why did they let this misery fall upon her?
However, despite her bitterness, Iris felt good when she could walk in the open like this again, since she could only see hard walls that surrounded her inside her cell. She prayed her misery would end someday.
And she hoped Cane wouldn’t treat the people in the Blue Moon pack horribly, like her father treated his people. Most of them only followed their alpha…
“Get inside, someone will bring you some food.” The man opened the cell and Iris walked inside.
Once again, she was trapped in this darkness, as the coldness bit into her skin while there was nothing that could warm her here.
Iris huddled in the corner of her cell, hugging herself. She felt her body turning hot, but she was so cold.
She was sick again…
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“She has a problem with her hearing?” Cane leaned his back against the desk behind him, as he folded his arms, listening to Jace’s, his beta, report.
“Yes, she was born as a runt, after all. Aside from health issues, she has problems with her hearing, but from what I know, she can read lips, that’s how she communicates with other people.”
That answered why that girl didn’t reply to his question when he didn’t force her to look at him.
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