What was going on?! Why did Stone stand for her?
“If Alpha Cane marked her, don’t you think that he has his own reasons for doing so?” Stone didn’t budge, while the other warriors stepped back. They were shocked to see Iris’ scars and wondered how she could get them.
“She seduced him!” Aria screamed at the top of her lungs, her face turned red because of how angry she was right now. Traitor!
“Do you really believe that someone like Alpha Cane can be seduced so easily until he marks her?” Stone didn’t mean to stand up for Iris. He was just trying to think logically, which made the other warriors realize it too.
However, before the commotion could escalate someone announced the alpha’s arrival. All of them parted to give way for him.
Aria’s face turned pale when she heard that.
Meanwhile, all of the guards and warriors lowered their heads in the presence of the alpha. Behind him, Hanna and his personal guard, Will, followed closely.
“Al- alpha…” Aria stuttered when she saw him, but he walked past her. She didn’t think that he would find him here. She didn’t even think that he would be here at all.
Cane’s eyes fixed on Iris’ body, while behind him, Hanna was so tensed to see her missy’s condition, but she didn’t dare to approach her without the permission from the alpha.
“Al- alpha…” Aria tried again, she wanted to explain the situation here, but Cane didn’t even spare her a glance.
“Take her away,” Cane said rigidly and Hanna immediately rushed toward Iris and helped her stand up.
“Are you, okay? Are you hurt somewhere?” Hanna was so worried about her. But from the looks of it, they had not yet done anything to hurt her. She only looked shocked.
“Cane!” Aria was furious. She had been so mad about the fact that Cane marked Iris and raised her rank to be the luna, but now he wanted to take her away and pretend that she didn’t exist?!
“I will talk to you later.” Cane didn’t raise his voice, he didn’t sound angry or upset, but then it was difficult to read the alpha’s emotions. You couldn’t know for sure, since he was a man that could kill you without even batting an eye at all.
“But…” Aria wanted to retort, but Stone grabbed her arm, silently warning her to stop.
The mistress was blinded by her jealousy and anger, which was understandable, but the problem that Cane faced went way deeper than getting their revenge, since he needed to protect their people and prevent them from falling into slavery again.
Aria didn’t understand that, nor did she want to understand that. The only thing in her mind was; Iris had taken her man from her. The man that she would give up everything for, even her morale. She had done everything for him and now she had to stay put, while Cane was being taken away right under her nose?!
She wouldn’t let that happen.
“A lot of things happened today. Calm yourself down,” Stone warned her again sternly.
Aria balled her fists until her nails stabbed her palms, she didn’t want to hear such measly comfort, her chest was burning, she felt like she was on fire when she watched Cane’s retreating back, as he walked away with Hanna and Will.
She couldn’t describe what she felt right now, but her heart was so stifled. She felt like she started to lose Cane and this scared her.
They should be together, right? But, why did he care more about his enemy’s daughter?
Iris didn’t suffer any serious injuries, aside from her scraped knee that was bleeding, because Aria pushed her to the ground. Hanna was more than capable of taking care of the wound.
However, Iris had been very quiet. She didn’t say anything and clutched her dress tightly.
“I will return the cloak to Stone later after I wash it, okay?” Hanna tried to coax her to speak, but Iris didn’t say anything. She closed her eyes, seemingly fell asleep, but her tensed shoulders told her that she was wide awake.
But around midnight, Iris fell unconscious, she got a fever again and because tomorrow she needed to be with Cane to send off the king and the five alphas, Grace was called over to take a look at her.
Meanwhile, the rumors out there started to circulate, they talked about how the alpha had taken Iris as his luna and how he had marked her.
At first, Cane didn’t want anyone to know that Iris had been marked. He didn’t even have a plan to use her that way at all and was still trying to figure out a better way to announce it to the people.
But now, rumors about it had spread and people were talking about how Iris bore his mark. There was nothing to hide anymore.
Yet, it was either that, or him losing the Blue Moon pack. The resources of this pack were too great to let them fall into the king’s hands and the hatred was too deep to let those people be free.
Grace had learned what had happened and reluctantly looked after her, because it was not about Iris alone. If something happened to her now, the whole pack would be implicated and their pack would be in a more vulnerable state because they didn’t have the footing to hold onto Blue Moon pack.
The Howling Wolf pack was not in a good condition and they needed to fund everything that had been destroyed and to make the economy of the pack run smoothly again.
“Do you want me to heal her scars too?” Grace frowned when she saw the scars on Iris’ back. From the looks of it, none were new scars, but how could she get those scars to begin with?
Hanna was wiping Iris’ body, so she could sleep comfortably when Cane and Grace entered the room and she didn’t have enough time to dress her missy up, which left her bare back fully exposed.
“Yes, do it,” Cane replied. It made no difference to him whether her scars were fully healed or not. She was still Iris Lane, there was no change in that fact.
Grace let Hanna wipe Iris’ body down and only then she used her healing magic to heal the scars, yet she realized something was wrong. She frowned deeply and put down her hand to see that her scars did not heal at all.
“Why?” Grace muttered under her breath when she couldn’t heal the scars. They should have been healed by now, but the scars were still there.
Cane stared at Iris’ back and knew why Grace was at a loss for words. The healer tried again and the result was still the same. She couldn’t heal the scars.
“How could this happen?”
At first, Hanna was too distracted to make her missy more comfortable, but then she realized the healer was being stunned and what the reason for her reaction was.
“Oh, I forgot to tell you that Missy’s body is resistant to healing power,” Hanna explained, as she wiped Iris’ face with a warm towel.
“What do you mean she is resistant?” Grace couldn’t accept that logic.
“Her scars can’t be healed by magic.”
“Why?”
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