“How was she treated by her father?” Cane couldn’t get rid of the image of her back. The scars were from being whipped and he was sure of that. Who would have whipped the alpha’s daughter?
“Why are you asking this? Did you take pity on her?” Jace asked curiously. He stared directly into his eyes, trying to read what was in his mind, but it was not possible to do that. The depth of his thoughts was so scary.
“Pity?” Cane tilted his head, his dark eyes grew cold at that word. “We don’t take pity on our enemy, Jace.”
There was a complicated look on the beta’s face. “I got a hold of her personal maid, if you want, I can run an interrogation on her.”
Cane thought about it for a while. “Bring her here.”
“Pardon?”
“You heard me.”
“You will interrogate her yourself?”
“Yes.”
Even though Jace was still a little bit confused, he did what he was told to do.
It didn’t take long for Iris’s personal maid to come see Cane, she lowered her head and looked terrified in the presence of the alpha.
“Her name is Hanna, she has been with Iris since she was seven years old.” Jace glanced at the woman next to him. She looked like she was in her late twenties and even though she didn’t look so shabby, her eyes were swollen because she cried too much.
“Alpha… Cane, my name is Hanna,” Hanna introduced herself, as she lowered her head and fiddled with her fingers.
Cane waved his hand, indicating for Jace and the guard that had brought Hanna to go out of the room.
“Tell me everything about her.” Cane didn’t beat around the bush. He didn’t have time for that.
It had been only a week since he managed to kill the alpha of the Blue Moon pack and held two of his children captives, he needed to manage this pack and fill his role as the new alpha.
There were a lot of people that he needed to punish and also overhaul the existing regulations that the former alpha made.
“Miss Iris?” Hanna lifted her head and asked carefully, just in case she heard it wrong, but once she met Cane’s eyes, she hurriedly lowered her head again, she was afraid to see those callous eyes staring down at her.
“I don’t like to repeat my question.”
“Yes, yes.. alpha…” Hanna then started to reiterate all the things that she knew about Iris, since she was with her, since she was little, there was very little information that Jace couldn’t report to Cane. “Please, alpha Cane, don’t hurt her…” she pleaded for Iris. “She is very different from her father.”
Hanna was only a low ranking shifter in the pack, thus even though she was aware how badly Iris’s father had treated the Howling Wolf pack as slaves, Iris had nothing to do with that.
However, that was not the thing that Cane wanted to hear. “Tell me about the wounds on her back.”
Hanna flinched when she heard that question. If Cane had seen Iris’s wounds, it meant he had undressed her and she could only imagine what kind of nightmare that her dear missy had gone through in the hands of alpha Cane.
“That’s…” Hanna held back her tears. Her emotions were all over the place. She hated Alpha Cane for hurting her missy in such a way.
“I couldn’t hear your answer.” Cane walked toward Hanna, his footsteps echoed throughout this room and it sounded so eerie. “Who has whipped her and why?”
Hanna was surprised that Alpha Cane could tell that. She lifted her head in fright and saw the alpha was waiting for her answer.
“There is something wrong with her,” said one of the guards, who was patrolling in the dungeon, as they walked past Iris’s cell.
“I think she is sick again,” replied his fellow guard.
Both of them stopped in front of Iris’s cell, as they looked through the iron bars and found Iris’s body trembling, as she hugged herself.
“She was born as a runt, it is unfortunate for her to be born that way. I think she will not last for another week.”
“Hm. She has been sick twice this week.”
“Yes. She will not last long enough. I hope the alpha will kill her immediately, so she doesn’t need to suffer.”
The guards were from the Howling Wolf pack, they suffered throughout the past ten years after their pack fell.
However, during those years, it was Iris’s father and brother, who actively tortured them, making their lives a living hell, but not even once they ever saw Iris.
Therefore, a quick death would be enough to punish her.
After all, they could still torture her brother. It would be fair.
“Right, she will not last long with that body.” He nudged his fellow guard and both of them walked away from there.
They took pity on her, but it was not enough to erase their hard time during Iris’s father’s reign.
She could die in that shabby cell for all they care. In that case, probably it would be a mercy for her, instead of being tortured by the alpha.
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“Fuck you! BASTARD!” Mason cursed loudly when they stabbed him with a knife. “I will kill you! I AM GOING TO KILL YOU ALL! ARGH!”
They intentionally missed his vitals parts, so it wouldn’t kill him. They would take turns to torture him, but were careful enough not to kill him.
They would let his wounds heal before they started it all over again.
Mason was the son of the alpha of the Blue Moon pack, he was next in line for the title, but unfortunately for him, his pack had fallen and he was here to pay for all of his crimes, even though it would never be enough to atone for his sins.
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