260: HE WORKED ON IT

HE WORKED ON IT

Cane was stirred awake when he felt Iris was moving away from him. He was alarmed, his mind immediately went straight to the worse case possible, his body reacted, as if he was being attacked. 2

"What happened?" His lucid eyes scanned his surroundings, but there was nothing. He was safe and there was nothing to be worried about, at least, inside this room, the chaos out there didn't seep through in yet.

"I am going to get some food," Iris said sheepishly, as she pointed at their breakfast. "I am hungry."

Cane finally realized what was going on and he was overreacted for no reason at all. He then let Iris go and got off the bed to go to the bathroom.

Iris still could feel his strong arms that trapped her body, she still felt so warm being so close to him, but she couldn't hold back her hunger any longer… her stomach was grumbling uncomfortably. She didn't eat much last night and didn't think she could taste her food, because she needed to talk with Laluna, during their dinner, someone that she didn't like to have any conversation with.

The princess would make a way to talk about how lucky Iris was to have Cane as her mate, praising the alpha to no end, which irked her, thus at that time, she was trying to mask her annoyance and focus on that difficult task.

Iris munched on her meal when she caught her reflection on the mirror. Her hair! She looked so messy with her curls around her little face, it looked like mane of a lion. Ugh.

Somehow, her look made her self- conscious and she used her fingers to smooth it. Her hair would always look so messy in the morning, but this was the first time she got frustrated.

Right at that time, Cane came out, he was already changing his clothes, as he wore the formal one, which meant he would go out now.

"Why don't you eat your breakfast first?" Iris asked when she saw Cane, she tried to tame her hair by tugging on it helplessly.

"I am late," Cane said curtly.

Iris fell silent. She was very familiar with this curt answer and here she was when she thought they had made a progress, they circled back to the beginning again. She lowered her head and stared at the breakfast for both of them that Hanna had brought this early morning.

However, when Iris thought Cane would leave after giving her that short answer, the alpha actually approached her and kissed her head briefly, which surprised Iris. She lifted her head and stared at Cane, whose expression didn't change at all after that sudden affection.

"I heard you will need me for the last fitting for the ceremony dress." Hanna had told him before about this, because she thought Iris wouldn't bring it up, since she didn't want to bother the alpha.

More so, with the recent event everyone was very busy with another important problem, none of them would remember about the ceremony that probably would be postponed or canceled.

However, Felicity, the seamstress, didn't budge. She wanted to finish the job that she had started and even if the ceremony was canceled, she would have the dress ready when the time came. That was one of her antics.

"How do you know?" Iris was surprised that Cane knew about that.

Yet, instead of answering her question, Cane caressed her head and spoke briefly to her. "I will come at noon."

And after saying that, the alpha walked out of the room to tend the brewing problems that he had created. He didn't look panic, neither he flustered with the intensity of the chaos in the capital city and also inside the court. After a good night sleep, he felt even better.

Meanwhile, Iris stared at the close door for a while, as gradually a sheepish smile appeared on the corner of her lips, she touched her forehead, where Cane had kissed her. It was only a small gesture and it was not the first time he did that, but after last night conversation, it felt different.

Cane kept his words, he indeed worked on their relationship. And just like what he had said, he came this afternoon.

"Miss, the alpha is here," Hanna said giddily when she helped Iris to get into a dark purple gown. There was nothing fancy about this, as it was a simple gown with V shape collar, which showed her mark and her collarbones. It seemed Iris had to endure a little bit of coldness if the ceremony happened.

They were doing the last fitting for the gown not in their bedroom, it was another room inside the king palace.

"Yes, Ms. Felicity dragged him to different room." Hanna even looked more excited than Iris to know the alpha still cared enough for her missy to show up.

Recently, she had been very gloomy because she couldn't get in touch with Will. She didn't know what the reason he left without saying anything and he even didn't reply to her letter that she left to one of the warriors when they went out of palace to meet with him.

The warrior said Will received the letter, but said nothing, he looked so quiet and this made Hanna worried.

"You two will look perfect," Hanna kissed Iris's cheek, while her missy clearly looked happy. Once Hanna finished braiding her hair, she gushed over her. "Look, how beautiful you are. The alpha will fall head over heal for you. He will feel so lucky to have you in his life."

"Stop it," Iris chided lightly, she felt Hanna's words were too heavy and outrageous, but her personal maid only chuckled.

"Oh, you don't know what will happen in the future."

That was right, no one could predict what would happen to their relationship in the future, when all of it started with an ill fate filled with hatred, pain and a lot of traumas.

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