106: WE CAN'T DO THAT

WE CAN'T DO THAT

It happened so fast and Iris couldn't follow what happened in that split second, because the next thing that she saw was Cane's fingers wrapping around the man's neck, threatening to snap his head off, while pushing her behind his back.

Cane said nothing, but his eyes were so cold. They were filled with murderous intention for that man's impertinent move.

"If I want to kill her, I will do it myself. I don't need your help." His voice was colder than the night's wind. Coupled with his unapproachable tone, it made the man unable to speak.

"Y- Yes alpha," The man answered with so much difficulty. Cane humbled him down as easily as that and this astonished the other people.

The last time they saw him was when he was just fifteen years old, a young boy, who followed his father around to greet the other alphas and barely understood the duty of the title, but right now, he looked completely different from the one in their memory.

Only after hearing that timid voice, did Cane let go of his neck and speak coldly again. "Lead the way."

Iris, on the other hand, could only stick closely to Cane when she knew these people harbored ill intentions toward her just because she was her father's daughter.

But, aside from that, Iris didn't understand why Cane didn't look happy to meet them when they looked like they would follow anything that they were told to do. Cane even looked… angry. But Iris didn't dare to ask.

The old man walked to her left side, where there was a door before he opened it. Apparently, the six of them had been living in this secluded place and only came out when they learned Cane came to this district.

At first, they didn't believe it, until they saw it themselves.

The coin told them that Cane also came here to look for them, the reminder of his father's spies.

Inside the house, which looked like a storage room that was turned into a living place, there was a round table with six chairs in the first room.

There were not many things that you could see here, some bookshelves near one of the walls while a cabinet was erected against another. Several parchments were stuck on the remaining walls, it seemed those things carried important information that they had gathered all this time.

"Have a seat, Alpha." The old man brought a chair for him once they were inside, but he didn't give any to Iris, which meant they wanted her to stand up while they talked.

All of them had their own respective chairs, while none for her. Actually, she didn't mind it. It was not enough of an act that would offend her in this kind of situation.

However, to her surprise, Cane pulled her and sat her down on the chair that the old man brought for him, while he looked around this tiny room. He stopped at the wall, where there were a few parchments of information stuck and read all of them.

The six men were puzzled to see this, while Iris could only lower her head and fiddle with the hem of her dress. She was able to feel how their stares bored holes into her head. They despised her, that was for sure.

"You managed to find a fire magic stone?" Cane turned around, his eyes fell on the man with green eyes.

"Yes." The old man stood up and went to retrieve something from the cabinet. It was a small, red pouch.

Iris lifted her head because this was something that she had sensed the moment they entered this place. So, it was a magic stone?

However, unlike the earth or water magic stones, she grew comfortable with this sense. It gave off a different feeling than she felt from the other two stones.

She craned her neck to see the pocket in the old man's hand and this small gesture didn't go unnoticed in Cane's eyes. She looked drawn to the thing inside the pouch, even though he was sure she didn't read their short conversation from earlier.

Cane took the small pouch from the old man and threw it in Iris' lap, which made all of them widen their eyes. That was their most precious possession. Something that they managed to get their hands on after years and years of staying in the Red Claw pack.

Unlike the other fire magic stones, this one was of the best quality.

Iris caught the pouch and lifted her head to look at Cane.

"Open it," he said.

"Alpha!" The six men grew anxious, they disagreed to let their hard earned stone be touched by this devil woman.

However, one look from Cane was enough to shut them down, as they could only hold themselves back, watching what this woman was going to do with the magic stone.

Iris opened the pouch and found a thumb sized stone, its color was red and it felt so warm in her palms, even her body felt so warm after she grabbed it. The feeling was very comfortable.

"Fire magic stone," Iris said, she had never seen one, but she immediately knew it was one once she got a hold of it.

Cane said nothing and then shifted his attention back toward the six men there.1

"Arthur, I want you to go to the Moon Dew pack. Me and my people will arrive there for an auction for access to the black market." Cane talked to the quiet man, who was sitting next to the old man.

They were surprised to know that Cane still remembered their names. It was only natural if he forgot about them, after all, it had been seventeen years since the last time they met.

"What are you going to do in such a vicious place?" Arthur looked at him with alarm. His father always told them to not associate with such a place.

However, Cane didn't answer that. "Do what you are told."

"We can't do that. We are ordered not to associate with that place."

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