296: WHAT ARE WE GOING TO PLAY?

WHAT ARE WE GOING TO PLAY?

Iris was only seven years old at that time, it was the first winter when Hanna became her personal maid. She remembered how Hanna used to bring her hot chocolate to warm her body and she liked it. 0

At that moment, Iris used to see prince Kellan came to visit the pack house and play with her brother. She was jealous because Mason would make sure she watched them having fun from her window.

Therefore, when the prince noticed her and started playing with her, she was very happy, she waited for his visit and was no longer jealous with Mason, because after prince Kellan played with him, he would come to her bedroom.

"What will we play today?" Iris stared at him expectantly. She wished her brother would be as nice as him, since Mason was so mean to her and used to make her cry.

"I have a new game," Kellan said, he enunciated his words slowly, because sometime Iris would misread it. "But, this game is a secret, can you keep a secret?"

"Yes," Iris said eagerly, she was so giddy to have a secret of her own.

"You can't tell Hanna too."

"Why?"

"Because this is a secret."

"Okay." Little Iris didn't want to upset the prince, because he was the only one, who wanted to play with her aside from Hanna, thus she nodded her head eagerly. She wanted to please him, so he would like her more. "What will we play?"

Iris watched Kellan's lips moved, but she couldn't read what he was saying.

"I can't read it, can you slow down, please…" Iris furrowed her brows, even after the prince said it slowly, she couldn't capture the word he said. "What did you say…"

And when Iris stared at Kellan's lips closely, those lips drew into a beautiful smile and everything went black. Iris was startled because she didn't like dark place, yet when she opened her eyes, she found herself inside a bright room and her body was so warm.

She rubbed her eyes groggily, as she felt someone was so close to her and she realized, she was sitting on someone else's laps, when she lifted her head, the first thing she saw was Cane staring at her. He had towel in his left hand, while his right arm secured her position, so she wouldn't fall when she was sleeping.

"Awake?" Cane asked, he wiped her sweat and put down the towel to reach a glass on the table next to the bed. "Come, drink this."

Sluggishly, Iris drank it, but she immediately pushed it away because the taste was so bitter. "What is that?"

"Medicine."

Iris frowned, but then she remembered what happened. She then looked at her arms and her palms, but there was no scratch on her skin.

"The healer stopped the bleeding on your arms and palms, but she couldn't do anything with your allergic," Cane explained shortly. "Hanna had gone to great lengths to find the ingredients for this medicine. You have to finish it."

"That's bitter," Iris said sullenly. She frowned at the sight of that black liquid.

"I will give you candy after you finished it."

"I am not a child." Iris pursed her lips. She had forgotten about her dreams.

"Then drink this." Cane put the glass close to her lips again and Iris didn't have other choice, but to drink it, there was no room for negotiation when the alpha insisted on something.

"Where is the candy?" Iris demanded after she finished the bitter medicine and Cane plopped the candy into her mouth. Gradually, the bitterness disappeared, as she chewed on it.

Iris glanced at the window and the sky was so bleak, she was not sure it was early morning or it was about night.

"Is it morning?"

"Hm." Cane nodded and Iris could see the gesture.

"I have slept a whole night."

"You have slept two whole nights."

"Pardon?" Iris missed what Cane said, as she lifted her head and looked at him.

"You slept for two whole nights."

Reading that, Iris was stunned, she didn't think she had fallen asleep for that long, but there was no way Cane would lie to her and it was even more impossible if the alpha was making a joke.

After that, Cane put her on the bed, as she laid down and he walked out of the room, not long after that, Hanna came. Her eyes were red, obviously she had been crying.

"You made me scared," Hanna said, as she hugged Iris and kissed her cheeks. "I thought you will not open your eyes anymore."

Hanna tended to be a little bit dramatic when she was being overwhelmed with her emotions. "I am fine, Hanna. It's just allergic."

"No!" Hanna let her go, but she stared at Iris sternly. "You were unconscious for two days and two nights, more so, the alpha didn't allow anyone to enter the room, how could I not feel so restless?"

Iris found the information was a little bit weird. "Why the alpha didn't allow you to enter the room." She thought, Hanna took care of her and she just happened waking up in Cane's arms, because he used to sleep, while hugging her.

"Unless I brought you medicine or meal, he didn't allow anyone to enter the room." Hanna then remembered something. "Prince Kellan entered this room once, but he came out after a few minutes, I think the alpha didn't entertain him and clearly show how he didn't want to be bothered."

"Really?" Iris was surprised. "Then… Is it the alpha too, who changed my dress?" Iris remembered she didn't wear this simple dress during dinner at that time.

"Yes, who else?" Hanna tilted her head and watched how Iris bit her lip.

"Hanna… I vomited in front of him…" Iris said in small voice, she looked terrified when she remembered the smell. "It's so embarrassing…" she really wanted to cry.

How could Cane be so calm to see her like that?

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