The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter-Chapter 53: YOU ARE BEING CALLED BY THE ALPHA

Things that transpired between them were so clear from the very beginning. Cane had never forced her to stay. She was free to live her life. Right after they were freed from the slavery, the alpha had given her a choice and she insisted on staying, which gave her the position of the mistress right now.

"I will give you the same choice again now." Cane had never tried to deceive Aria, he had emphasized the same from the very beginning. "You can stay or leave. I will give you a house in a place that you want and you don’t need to think about money. I will take care of you."

What he offered sounded very generous, but compared to what she had done for him, during their slavery, it was only a small amount of gratitude that Cane could offer to people who always stood by him.

However, things had changed, their slavery days had passed and what they had to think about right now was not only limited to how not to get whipped today or how to get food for them to live on. That was no longer the problem that they had to face.

Starting from now, it would be way more complicated than that, but Aria refused to see the bigger picture and Cane couldn’t make her change her way of thinking. However, he couldn’t keep her around either knowing she could cause potential trouble in the future. There were so many things at risk now.

"Are you throwing me away?" Aria cried, she looked at Cane. She was visibly upset and hurt.

Yet, after all that Cane had said to her to make her understand things, it all seemed in vain. She was a lost cause. It was simple, they didn’t see the same light. They walked different paths now. freewebnσvel.cøm

"How can I throw you away when I don’t actually own you?" Cane looked at the woman in front of him and saw the hatred in her eyes, not toward him, but Iris. There must be more people who shared the same sentiment as her out there. "Iris will be the luna of this pack and I want you to respect her. You don’t need to interact with her if you don’t want to, but I want you to understand that she is no longer a slave, so I don’t want you to pull the same trick again."

Actually, Aria had overstepped the boundaries and she should be punished for what she had done, but Cane was not going to do that. However, she would only cause even more trouble in the future if he didn’t make things clear to her.

On the other hand, Aria felt a huge lump in her throat when she heard that. "You chose your enemy’s daughter over your people." No amount of explanation could change the way Aria was thinking about it. "You chose her over me."

And after saying that, Aria turned around, she didn’t want to see him for a while. Her steps were so heavy, her heart ached so badly. But, before she walked out of the bedroom, she turned around and faced Cane once again.

"Do you really think a devil like Alpha Gerald will create innocent children? Can’t you see how Mason is? Has it never crossed your mind that you are being lied to by her? That she is pretending to be nice to you? Being a runt and looking weak will not stop you from being a wicked person."

Aria waited for Cane to respond to that, but he just stayed there, staring at her as usual, which meant he wouldn’t give her what she wanted and would remain silent.

However, Cane listened to what she said. Of course, it crossed his mind that her innocent face and her timid act were all just an upfront, but he didn’t have proof either way.

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The black beast fought off seven other beasts that came his way and within a few minutes, all of them had backed off. Some of them laid on the ground, shifted into their human form, while the rest of them whimpered and avoided the beast.

The training was over just like that and the victorious beast shifted into the alpha.

"You really need to coordinate better," Cane said, rubbing the dirt off his face. Today, he personally inspected how the training went and he was a little bit disappointed that the new warriors didn’t meet his expectations.

Ethan approached the alpha and flashed him his goofy smile. "You are very harsh on them."

Hearing that, Cane gave him a side eyed look. "That’s why they are very weak. You only know how to spoil them."

"There is no way I can spoil them." Ethan raised both of his hands and looked defensive. "But, fighting you, of course, is too much for them."

The newly recruited warriors were around the age of thirteen to fifteen and there were around a hundred of them, which was a good number to start and strengthen their forces back. They couldn’t slack off in this matter.

"Don’t worry, they will be fine within two or three months." Ethan followed the alpha to sit down on the tribune, watching the young warriors train in their human or in their beast forms in the training ground.

"Hm." The alpha poured the cold water on top of his head. It was so hot today, the heat could make your head dizzy.

The water dripped from his hair, continuing to wet his shirt, but Cane didn’t seem to feel any better.

"What is bothering you?" Ethan did the same thing before he drank the rest of the water and then he remembered something. "It is about tomorrow night, right?"

It had been three weeks since the king and the five alphas left the pack house, which meant, the new moon was around the corner and from what they could see, it would be tomorrow night.

"Do you really think it was because of Iris?" They had mulled over this matter a few times and couldn’t come up with another conclusion about how Cane could shift back into his human form when it was still hours before sunrise. Not to mention how the monster reacted to Iris’ presence. "Shouldn’t we try to find out more about it?"

Cane knew what Ethan implied by saying that they should find out more about this.

But, first of all, he needed to have a conversation with the woman herself.

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After being pointed out as the luna of the pack, Iris thought they would finally warm up to her a little bit, but they seemed to hate her even more.

Their understanding went along the lines that said their alpha was put under a lot of pressure to make her the luna or they would need to let go of the Blue Moon pack, which they felt was so unfair.

Aria’s accusation only spiced up the rumors that Iris had seduced the alpha.

"The alpha called you to come to his bedroom." Hanna entered the room and gave Iris this information. "Should I tell him that you are still recuperating and not feeling well?"

Two weeks ago, even after Iris recovered a little bit, the alpha didn’t chase her out of the room next to his, which was way better than the room that she had occupied in the slave quarters.

Since her status was the luna of the pack, of course, she couldn’t look so shabby. It would reflect badly on Cane as well.

"You know that such an excuse will not stop the alpha from demanding my presence," Iris said, as she braided her hair, so her curls wouldn’t look like a bird nest on her head. These curls frustrated her sometimes.

Hanna then came over and helped her to braid her long hair. She looked way better and healthier after she drank the concoction from Grace regularly, her health improved by a lot as well.

"I think I should go now." Iris stood up and looked at Hanna with a soft smile. "At least, with the condition that the king gave him, we know that he will not kill me."

Hanna was not particularly happy to hear that, but she knew it was true. The alpha will not kill Iris because of that, because now she was the luna.

Iris hugged her and kissed her on the cheeks. "I will return soon."

It would be the first time they met in two weeks, because during those two weeks, Cane didn’t call her while she didn’t make any attempts to talk to him either, since she thought he would call her if he needed her, just like right now.

However, during that time, she didn’t go to the mines either. Amee told her that she didn’t need to do that anymore because she was the luna and it would not be good if rumors circled around about how harshly they treated the luna in the Howling Wolf pack.

In the end, they just wanted to save their alpha’s name, it was not out of consideration for her.

When Iris entered the bedroom, there was someone else there and it was Stone and his daughter, Ania, who saw her and immediately ran toward her with her gummy smile.

"IRIS!" she literally screamed, as she ran toward Iris with both of her arms wide open, asking for her to hug her.

Out of instinct, Iris caught her little body and carried the girl in her arms, while her scream interrupted whatever the alpha and Stone were discussing, as both of their attention was now on Iris and Ania, who looked so happy to see each other again.

"Ania." Stone’s voice was strict. "Get down."

Ania flinched, but she hugged Iris’ neck even tighter, as she shook her head. "No." She was only five years old, thus she could not yet understand the concept of mannerisms in front of the alpha.

Stone must have been left with no other choice but to bring his daughter along as he had no one to look after her.

"Ania." Stone tried again, but his daughter turned her head away and buried her face in the crook of Iris’ shoulder.

"It’s okay. I will be with her while you are talking to the alpha." Iris offered a solution and at the mention of the alpha, Stone looked conflicted. He swiftly controlled his emotions. He didn’t like his daughter getting closer to Iris, but he couldn’t disrespect the alpha.

"Continue with your report, Stone," Cane spoke. He didn’t like to waste his time and the slave trainer knew about that.

"Yes, alpha." Stone lowered his head and continued with his report about the slave warriors. It was what they called the warriors from the Blue Moon pack, who refused to back down and pledge their loyalty to the new alpha.

They were working in the mines now, but it was not productive at all, because there would always be a fight every now and then.

"Because of that, the production of the magic stones is not as high as before."

Usually, from the mines, they would find two or three stones every week, but right now, the last magic stone that they could find was the magic stone that was found by Iris.

It would affect their income, which was critical at times like this, since they needed large funds to revitalize the Howling Wolf pack.

On the other hand, Iris stealthily read Stone’s lips, while playing with Ania on the side.

Stone must have forgotten that she couldn’t hear what he was saying, but she could still read his lips, thus instead of turning his head away, he lowered his voice when he talked to the alpha.

Magic stones? Iris was sure there were a lot of magic stones in the mines, but why couldn’t they find them?

"And also, there is this warrior named Redmond, who demands your presence. He has people rallying behind his back and creating trouble. We have confiscated him and he is waiting for your punishment." Stone ended his report and now, he directed his eyes at Ania, who was laughing and smiling while she was talking to Iris.

It was so rare to see his daughter laugh like that after her mother died while giving birth to her brother.