121: LAY DOWN ON THE BED

LAY DOWN ON THE BED

Cane felt as if his skin was being burned, and when the bald man touched the upper part of his arm, he almost thought his hand had turned into hot iron instead.

However, he only knitted his brows and said nothing, he didn't even let out a grunt whatsoever, which amazed Redmond. After all, when Mason got his tattoo, he cried and wailed like a three year old boy, unable to bear the pain.

Later on, he said he had never been in so much pain like that, and only now did Redmond realize that the endurance of both of them was not even comparable. 

While Mason was only a spoiled brat, Cane had gone through something that Mason wouldn't even dare to dream of.

On the other hand, Iris was talking to Ethan, showing her little lizard, which distracted him enough from focusing on the fact that they were inside this tiny room, locked.

Ethan didn't look like he was fine, but at the very least, he was not on edge like earlier. He was trying to focus on what Iris was saying, but the problem was; all she spoke was about her little lizard, which didn't really interest him.

"Why don't you hold the lizard, maybe it likes you," Redmond spoke and once he opened his mouth, Iris glared at him, she missed what he had said, but she knew it wouldn't be anything good. "Both of you look cute together."

"Do you want to die?" Ethan shot the most terrifying glare at him.

"Honestly, every time I talk to you, it feels like I am setting myself up to be stabbed," Redmond snickered.

"Then maybe we should talk more often, so you can get used to it." Ethan's body emitted a cold aura when he growled at the warrior, who looked like he didn't take this matter seriously.

Redmond clicked his tongue, his eyes glinted with humor. "No, I am not that much of a masochist."

Thankfully, the bickering didn't last long, because a few seconds later, the man said that he was done with what he was doing.

Cane looked a little bit pale, but aside from that, there was nothing else to be worried about.

"Are you sure the girl is not a magic user?" The bald man asked again, tilting his head in the direction from where he heard Redmond's voice earlier.

"A hundred percent. She is a runt."

After that, the bald man mumbled again and lay back on the bed, talking to himself in an incoherent voice and not long after that, the woman in red dress came to open the door. And Ethan rushed out of the room almost immediately.

He didn't want to spend another second inside and wanted to leave the tunnel quickly. He felt the air in this place was suffocating and he felt he would die if he had to stay here any longer than this.

He didn't even care to take a look at the magical tattoo on Cane's upper arm.

Iris hid her lizard as soon as the woman opened the door. Cane had told her repeatedly that no one could know about the lizard, so she needed to be careful.

"Why do the woman and the man inside that room talk in Andel language?" Cane asked Redmond once they walked out of the brothel. They were going back to their inn.

"Because they are from that continent and can't talk in our language," he replied in a matter of fact tone.

"Why did they hire people from that continent?" Cane didn't really need to know about this trivial matter, but he found this questionable.

"Maybe because the owner is someone from there." He shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly. "There is a rumor about that, but no one knows the truth for sure about the owner of that black market and the auction."

Cane decided to send Arthur to investigate this further.

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"They agreed to meet with you tomorrow morning, there is something that they wanted from the black market, but since they couldn't get the entry, they want you to buy it for them in exchange for one of the water magic stones," Will reported it to Cane.

"One?" Cane scoffed coldly. They had two and they would only give one? Meanwhile, hours ago, they were ready to give up both the stones and pay extra money for the entry. "What do they want from the black market?"

"About that, they want to discuss it with you tomorrow morning in their inn." That was all that Will could get. "Oh, and I happened to know that the Crown Prince and Sir Corry will be staying in an inn two streets away from here."

Cane nodded. "You can go." He had to wait until midnight when Arthur would come to give him the report, but he felt his head growing heavier by the second.

His head had been aching for a while now, aside from not being able to sleep and suffering from acute insomnia, even if he fell asleep, it was only nightmares that were waiting for him.

But, after getting the tattoo, the headache became more and more unbearable, as if getting it increased the pain. It tested his patience, it was almost like the feeling when he had to endure a new moon.2

"Will."

"Yes, Alpha?" Will was about to walk out of the bedroom when he was called.

"Tell Iris to come here."

Will was puzzled, but he didn't dwell on it and immediately went to the room next door, where Iris stayed.

It didn't take long before someone knocked on the door and Iris entered the room. Her sweet scent was enough to alleviate a bit of his headache.

She had let her long, curly, hair loose, which left her tiny figure cloaked in auburn color. Her blue eyes stared at him, fear and anxiousness evident in them.

"Yes, Alpha?" She said gingerly. The memory of the last time must still be fresh in her memory. Nothing good came out of her being alone with him.

"Lay down on the bed," Cane said.

Her fear intensified when she heard that. "P- pardon me?"

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