“You can go back to your room.”
And that was it, Cane just left like that. He didn’t talk about what Iris had witnessed in the library, but she was not stupid enough to run her mouth about that matter. It was something that didn’t concern her.
Whether Cane was behind the affair between the queen and Aderan or not, she was not involved with that plot and she didn’t think she wanted to be part of it. To survive in her current status as a slave was already hard enough for her. She didn’t need to put herself in more trouble.
However, three days later, the alphas from the five packs started to arrive in the Blue Moon pack. All the preparations to welcome them had been done and this pack became lively once again.
Iris heard that those alphas wanted to see her. Now her father was not there to tell them off, because he didn’t like them seeing his runt of a daughter, she couldn’t avoid meeting them, especially when she received a direct order from the alpha himself.
She felt dreadful.
The welcoming party was not a decent party, where you would get only nice wine and scrumptious food, also some amusement, but it could go very wild and wrong, which involved so many sex activities, where they would let their animal instincts get the better of them.
In the past, when her father and brother occasionally held a party for those five alphas, she sneaked out one time and what she witnessed was something that she didn’t think she would be able to see again for the second time.
Iris didn’t want to go to such a party. It was too cruel and sadistic for her taste. If she could, she would rather work herself to death than to participate in that party.
She herself was trembling in fear when she had to head toward the alpha’s bedroom. The things in the party that she had seen years ago replayed in her mind on a repeat.
Cane watched her walk into the room. She was wearing a white dress that was in contrast with her auburn hair. She let her long and curly hair cascade down her chest. Her blue eyes looked so gloomy, it was easy to say that she was very reluctant to come.
But, she looked delightful to the eyes when her face was not covered with soot or her hair was not so messy. She had heart shaped lips and a pointed nose, coupled with her big blue eyes, she could be easily the most beautiful woman in the room.
Those alphas were so curious about her, since it was a rare occasion to see her, even though she was living in the pack house, because Gerald would always reject their demand to bring her out.
“The five alphas and the king will be there.” Cane said, as he stood up from his seat and approached her. He stared at her with those impassive eyes, which looked so dark.
Iris fiddled with her fingers and only mumbled ‘okay’.
This would be the first time for her to have really participated in the party and witness up close how they indulge themselves in such occasions.
Iris remembered, every day during the party was held, the smell of sex and alcohol could be sensed from outside of the pack house. It was stifling.
Screams and more screams would ring out during the event for days without stopping. Slaves died during that time to entertain those alphas and those people, who were born privileged and that was not a big deal at all.
Alpha Cane must be there for every hellish party, since Gerald and Mason ‘loved’ him so much, they didn’t want him to miss it.
“We need to leave now.” Cane ignored how strong her reluctance to move. But when he walked out of the room and she didn’t follow, he turned around and faced her. “Should I drag you to the main hall myself?”
Iris was staring at him, thus she caught what he was saying to her.
“Can… can I do something else?” At least, she needed to try, though the chances of the alpha agreeing to it was very slim to none.
Cane watched how she stumbled with her words to convince him not to take her, but she didn’t have anything to offer to him.
“I will find more magic stones for you,” Iris said. She was trying so hard to think of her usefulness, but in the end, she was helpless. “I will do everything you tell me to do, but please… I don’t want to be there.”
Iris’s heart sank when she watched how callous Cane was. He didn’t sympathize with her plea, but then why should he? He must have pleaded the same thing to her father, but Gerald would have laughed in his face.
“I- I can…” Iris tried to find the right thing to say. “I can please you…” she lowered her head as her cheeks burned.
“I- I can… I can please you…” Iris lowered her head. Her cheeks burned. She must have gone crazy and be beyond desperate to be able to propose something like that.
But then, it would be better for Cane to be the only man who ever touched her, rather than to be exchanged among the alphas for their pleasure.
Because that was what they usually did to the slaves and she was one of them right now. She watched how a slave got raped until she died miserably before. She had seen the pain on her face and how her eyes slowly dimmed, as life snuffed out of them.
This was only a fraction of the things that she remembered when she witnessed the party years ago. Meanwhile, all the alphas laughed at the slave agony and simply tossed her body away to be replaced by someone else.
It was so callous, as if their lives meant nothing.
And there was a high possibility that Iris would have to endure the same thing. She was a slave now. A war prisoner, a slave for Cane nonetheless.
The thought of it alone turned her throat dry. She would rather have Cane torture her than to go inside that den of hungry and obscene shifters.
Iris knew them since her father’s reign, thus she knew what kind of fate was waiting for her at their hands. Now she was no longer the alpha’s daughter and was just a slave of the new conqueror.
“Please, alpha… you can torture me.” Iris fell to her knees. She begged him now, because her fear was so strong. She couldn’t bring herself to enter such a room where only lustful eyes could be seen everywhere. That disgusted her.
“Torture you? Do you even know what you are asking for?” Cane’s cold eyes fell on her and she couldn’t bear to look into them, but then she needed to know what he was saying, thus she looked at his lips instead. Her whole body was shaking.
“Please, alpha… I don’t want…” Iris stopped herself, she knew what Howling Wolf pack had gone through under her father’s hands. They must have begged him this way as well when they were forced to do something so abhorrent. They didn’t want to do it, but did her father care about that? The answer was crystal clear, thus why would alpha Cane care about what she wanted or didn’t want?
However, instead of throwing that fact at her face, Cane approached her. He looked down at her as he spoke.
Cane grabbed her arm and then pulled her up. “Bear with it.”
What he said didn’t help her feel better, she could feel her stomach churning uncomfortably, as she followed his footsteps. He let her go once they were out of the bedroom.
“You will come. Whether you walk through the door or I will ask someone to drag you in.” Cane didn’t raise his voice, but his intention was clear, he was serious about what he said.
Iris wiped her tears from her cheeks. Her father and brother found it annoying to see her cry, thus she stopped herself from crying and gritted her teeth. Compared to what he had gone through, this was nothing.
It was nothing.
Stop thinking. It will be over soon.
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