256: DAMN YOU, CANE! (2)

DAMN YOU, CANE! (2)

"Damn you, Cane!" Lou bristled when he heard that, he got off the bed immediately, his expression darkened, as he stormed to the garden, where Cane had been waiting for him. 1

However, his expression changed in a split of second before he met with the alpha and greeted him politely and remorsefully for having him to wait. The hypocrisy was so thick coming from him.

"I am sorry for making you wait this long," Lou said cheerfully, like his usual self. "You seem in hurry, though you just arrived five minutes ago."

He spoke about it so lightly, as if he didn't have any intention to make him wait for hours if he could.

However, Cane could see through his façade and replied to him simply. "The situation inside the palace is still not stable and the people in the capital is still panic, grieving and afraid. There are a lot of things to do."

An annoyance flitted passed Lou's eyes, but it vanished before Cane noticed it. What the alpha said, painted the merchant as someone that was too idle and ignorant in this chaotic situation, since he had a lot of free time.

Damn! Lou was there too in the morning court with the king, alright! Not only Cane that was busy!

"Yes, it is a difficult situation," Lou said lightly, still sounded cheerful, as if he didn't bother with Cane's jab. "Bring the tea!" he said to the servant.

However, Cane raised his hand to reject that. "Let's skip the tea part and get down to the business, what do you want?" he didn't have all day to accompany Lou. He barely wanted to spend another second here.

If it was not for the fact that this merchant indeed had saved his mate's life, he wouldn't be here at all and dealt with his antic. It was such a waste of his time.

"Oh, come on, you don't turn my offer down, right?" Lou furrowed his brows, he looked disappointed. "I invited you for an evening tea."

"I still have something to discuss with the king. I only have five more minutes, if you come earlier, maybe it's possible, but since you are late, I don't have much time for such leisure."

Sabian, who was standing a few steps away from Lou felt his heart lurched to his stomach when he heard the alpha's sarcastic words. Not only he insulted his master in such delicate way, but he brought the king's name in the same breath, which made Lou tongue- tied and couldn't retort.

The alpha even gave the time limit for the merchant to speak.

There was no way he would be able to hold Cane back if he brought the king's matter here, because if he did that, it would imply his matter was way more important than the king's.

Lou felt like he was about to flip the table or pour the hot water to his face.

However, he was way better than that to control his emotion. In the end, he smiled at Cane and spoke again lightly, as if it didn't bother him at all.

"Okay, I understood. My apologize for my tardiness earlier," he said wisely.

"So, what do you want?"

Lou gritted his teeth, but he kept his smile. He had seen how easy Cane provoked the crown prince, he didn't even seem to exert much effort and now, Lou could feel how annoying the alpha was. He was barely able to control his own anger.

Facing him a little bit longer than this, he would lose all of his patience and made a fool of himself like Alan did.

"I want to offer the same thing that I offer to the king."

"Magical device?" Cane didn't expect this at all. He thought this merchant would come with ridiculous idea of having one on one time with his mate, like his previous demand, but he actually wanted to have more chance to see Iris. He looked at him disdainfully.

"Yes. Your two packs' area is a dangerous area, surrounding by Goffa mountain, where the monster will appear so frequently, thus I want to venture my business there."

The magical device that Lou offered was a protection type, where it would be able to protect a large area and repel any monster that would come closer.

Right now, his progress to close the deal with the king looked so promising, thanked to the two attacks of the monsters that happened within a day and the panic that spread in the capital city among the people.

It helped the king to gain the people's trust to have a concrete action following the incident and now, Lou wanted to expand his business to another pack as well.

It would be Cane's honor to be the second place that would be installed his new device after the capital city.

"It's actually benefit you more." Lou shrugged his shoulder nonchalantly, as if he saw this as a charity for Cane. "I saved your mate and now I am going to save your people too. This is a good deal for you, a great one if I can say."

Lou was still holding a grudge by Cane's sarcastic statements earlier, thus he tried to make things even between them, at least, he wouldn't be too embarrassed after such insulting words that the alpha threw at him.

However, Lou was completely wrong, because Cane didn't seem to be affected by that. How could you get the satisfaction of insulting someone, when the other person didn't even feel like they were being insulted?

"Okay, you can start from the Blue Moon pack first, because the last attack of the monster happened there." Cane nodded. "When will you start?"

Lou's jaw dropped. "You accept that?" Why it was so easy? He had prepared himself with a long argumentation, but Cane accepted that so easily? And why he felt like he was working for him instead?

"You said it yourself that it is a great deal for me, so why should I refuse it?"

pqdm.com