Of course, they were thrilled to know that they would return to their land, full of glory. Not only did they manage to free themselves from being slaves, but they also took down the tyrant, took back their land and the Blue Moon pack’s as well.
“We will go to district six, I want to check on something there,” Cane spoke to Jace, his beta, when they exited the room, as the meeting had ended.
“Tonight?” Jace frowned slightly.
Cane had been so busy, since he held the title of the alpha, there were a lot of things that he needed to do because danger was still lurking in the dark. There were a few packs that didn’t like the fact that they were merging two packs into one, because in that sense, this would become the largest pack in this realm and everyone in power hated it when the power balance was disrupted.
“Yes, I want this problem to be solved immediately.” Cane didn’t slow down at all, as Jace walked next to him.
Jace wanted to remind Cane that tonight he had ordered Hanna to bring Iris to his chambers, but seeing how the alpha was in a hurry and the night almost fell, he said nothing about it. After all, the slave could wait. She was not a priority.
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“You need to endure this, Miss Iris. It will be over soon if you don’t do anything and don’t resist.” Hanna cupped Iris’s face and made her look at her, so she could read her lips. “Don’t do anything, or they will hurt you even more.”
Hanna knew that this was inevitable and in this kind of situation, all she could do was to advise her how to not anger the alpha and make it less painful for her.
“You need to survive this. I will be waiting for you here, okay?” Hanna wiped the tears that streamed down her face. This was not the first time she wiped her tears and surely, it wouldn’t be the last either. “Oh, my child…”
Hanna pulled Iris into a tight hug, her heart ached very badly to know what Iris had to go through tonight.
Iris was wearing the set of lingerie that Aria had given her and covered it with a cloak, so no one could see her wearing such a degrading thing.
However, once she was in the presence of the alpha, she wouldn’t be able to hide herself.
“I am so scared, Hanna…” Iris was crying silently, resting her head on her shoulder, as she hugged her tightly. She didn’t want to let her go. This was her safe place, she was her person, the only person that stayed with her since she was a child.
Hanna released her body and looked at her.
“It will pass and a new day will come, you will find your happiness,” Hanna said with a trembling voice, trying to hold back her tears.
Iris had seen Hanna say those words for the last fifteen years, since she was assigned to be her personal maid, a new day would surely come, but she had never found her happiness.
And with tears in her eyes, Iris was told that she couldn’t afford to make the alpha wait, so she needed to go now.
With heavy steps, another guard escorted her to the alpha’s chambers, the room that her father occupied before.
The room, where her father would bring countless women to look for pleasure. The thought of it sickened her to the stomach.
“The alpha is away, you can wait inside,” the guard said, as he opened the door. He looked at her impassively.
The alpha is not here?
District six, this was the district where Mason gathered his power. The place where the previous heir to the alpha title concentrated his influence in.
Therefore, it was quite a headache for them to get to the bottom of it, especially when it was only two weeks, since the power was overturned and those who supported Mason still believed they could turn the tables around.
It was a precarious period, where anything could happen and Cane had to be very cautious about it.
“All the people had gathered inside the house, what do you want us to do alpha?” Will asked Cane, after he reported what had transpired here.
Inside a building that was disguised as a restaurant, around twelve people had gathered, who were none other than Mason’s supporters, as they tried to plan a counterattack. Their goal was to get the alpha’s son out of the prison.
Based on the information that Cane had gathered, they would first take Mason out of this pack and then gather their power by asking help from other packs that had been acquainted with alpha Gerald for years.
There was a high chance they would help, as long as Mason could survive getting out of this pack, after all, they didn’t want Cane to take revenge on them.
The moment Cane managed to merge the two packs together, the power balance would be disrupted and they didn’t want a former slave like Cane to be on the top of the power chain.
“Shift and wait for my command to attack.” Cane looked at the closed restaurant with cold eyes. He led this operation himself because it was very important to catch them all.
“Yes, alpha,” Will said, as he relayed the order to the others.
“We have come so far,” Jace said, as he stood on the alpha’s right side. “Let’s end this misery.” They had gone through hell and back for them to be able to stand here today and those ten years of slavery would forever scar them.
Cane said nothing, as he shifted into his black wolf, followed by the other shifters. There were around thirty of them and they were ready to wreak havoc tonight.
The alpha took the lead and dashed toward the closed building, soon after which a thick scent of blood filled the air and the quiet night was suffused with screams and agony. Death hung so low tonight around this certain building…
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Iris waited for Cane inside the bedroom. She sat on the couch near a window, as she stared at the back garden.
She played there often when she was a child and this brought back a bunch of bitter memories to her.
At that time she was eight, she had a friend, a little boy from the stables, who showed her a foal and she fell in love with the creature. They even named the foal and Iris would sneak out of her bedroom to go see him, as both of them played with other horses.
However, her father found out that she was not in her quarters and roamed in places that he didn’t approve of.
Her father didn’t want her to be seen by many people, as she was born a disgrace to him and felt humiliated by her mere existence.
The only thing that kept Iris alive was the idea that the alpha could sell her to form a connection with other packs. After all, no matter how embarrassing she was, she still had value as the alpha’s only daughter.
Therefore, once Gerald found out that Iris formed a friendship with the boy from the stables, he ordered his men to beat the boy to death and cut the foal. Everything happened right before Iris’ eyes, as her father made her watch what would happen if she dared to try to do the same thing again.
The threat worked, Iris locked herself inside her bedroom with only Hanna being allowed to enter and she was the only person that she talked to for years.
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