242: DREADFUL FEELING

DREADFUL FEELING

Laluna tapped her hand to get her attention, Iris told her that she could read lips. "Since he couldn't walk, he fostered many orphan in his palace to keep him accompany," she explained to Iris voluntarily, because she had been staring at prince Kellan for so long. 1

Currently they were sitting inside the main hall, across from each other, while Vemian gathered with the other princes to talk about a few things that Laluna was not interested of, after the prince hugged her so tightly and kissed her deeply, grateful that she was still alive.

"Oh," Iris mumbled. She averted her gaze from prince Kellan, who was sitting on his wheelchair, while two little girls, standing by his side. The two of them were not older than ten and twelve years old, they were so quiet and kept lowering their head.

Meanwhile, prince Kellan was so calm and charming, his honey brown eyes had a deep gaze and despite being in the wheelchair, he was impeccable.

Prince Kellan talked with some prince that approached him, as he occasionally caressed those girls' cheeks and ruffled their hair. Sometime, he would talk to them, as if to reassuring them not to be afraid.

Because of how affectionate and kindness toward children, even though he was no longer a crown prince, he still held the people's heart. People adored him for his charity and good nature, it was a rare trait among the royal family, as most of them only cared for their own children and completely couldn't care less about commoner children.

"There are a few more children in his palace, but the two of them are his favorite," Laluna said, she kept explaining thing to Iris, just to find a topic to talk about, though she was not really responsive.

Iris was still distraught with the sight of Cane was carrying Laluna and felt so bad because she felt this way, since Cane must have done it to help, yet she couldn't see her in the eyes. She felt uncomfortable with Laluna and the image that kept replaying in her mind.

More so, Iris was staring at Kellan not because she was interested in him. She knew about his story and how he was being stripped off his status as the crown prince ten years ago. That was a dark spot in his perfect image in the public eyes.

She stared at him because she felt dreadful with the sight of him, as if they had met before, which most likely happened when he visited Blue Moon pack. It was like a distance memory, which she couldn't remember.

But this dreadful feeling was so real and she wondered why she felt this way.

Prince Kellan didn't attend to a new year's dinner, thus it could be said as the first time she saw him and when he noticed Iris had been staring at him and he looked at her, she felt chill ran down her spine when their eyes met and immediately averted her gaze.

She wanted Cane to be here so badly…

The situation was under control around an hour after noon and the bar that locked the main hall was finally lifted, as they were allowed to go out of there and returned to their place.

Iris saw Cane, as he strode into the main hall and approached her, a smile on her face when their eyes met because she felt relief that he was fine. She was worried about him and also uncomfortable with the presence of prince Kellan.

But, before Cane could take her away, Laluna stood in front of her all of sudden and smiled at him, while prince Vemion walked toward them, but he was across the room, thus it took a while for him to reach them.

"I want to thank you again for saving me, alpha Cane," Laluna said in sweetness in her tone, while Cane looked expressionless, but she had learned that was the look that he always showed to other people, thus she didn't take offense.

"You have said it," Cane replied, he tilted his head to see Iris, but Laluna blocked the sight of his mate.

"Yes, but I don't know how to repay your bravery." Laluna lowered her head, slightly embarrassed because of Cane's short reply.

Despite hearing the compliment, the alpha ignored her, he stepped aside and leaned over to take Iris's hand and pull her to his side and then turned around to leave. There was another business that he needed to take care of, such as; Aderan.

Yet, Laluna grabbed his hand instinctively to hold him back. "Wait."

Out of reflex, feeling someone touched him abruptly, Cane swatted her hand, even before his mind could register that was a harmless touch. Thankfully, it was not harsh enough to injure her, but enough to make Laluna's hand felt stung.

Cane frowned, he turned around and faced her again. "What is it?"

"I just want to invite you for a dinner in my palace when you have time and if you don't mind," Laluna said sheepishly, she couldn't hold Cane's gaze, thus she looked at Iris instead. "I think we can be friend," she smiled at her, in which Iris smiled back out of politeness.

"Thank you, you can arrange it with her," Cane replied curtly. "If there is nothing else, we will take our leave."

Right at that time, prince Vemion approached them and informed Cane that there was a meeting with the king that he needed to attend before dinner.

"Everyone will gather here, make sure you also come." Vemion then thanked him again for saving Laluna.

"I will," Cane replied and then nodded to the two of them. "Excuse us." He seemed very impatient to take his leave, thus they didn't stop him again.

Cane took Iris back to their chamber, but before she left the main hall, she could see the way Laluna stared at Cane stealthily and that made her frowned. She didn't like it.

For some reason, Iris didn't think she wanted to make a friend with her.

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