171: EXHAUSTION AND NIGHTMARE

EXHAUSTION AND NIGHTMARE

If the attack hadn't happened, then Cane would have been a great parent to his ten years old son with his destined mate, who more than deserved the title of the Luna of this pack.

It would have been Leane who went to the capital city and had the ceremony. It would have been her name that would be engraved beside Cane's name, as the Luna of the Howling Wolf pack.

Her father had destroyed their lives and it was Iris that would take Leane's position.

Iris cried so hard as she kept asking for forgiveness for something that she didn't do, something that she couldn't prevent and something that she was not part of.

Meanwhile, Cane waited until she calmed down enough before he told her that they needed to go because it was almost midnight.

They returned to the pack house on the horse, the guard prepared one for them, thus they could be behind the fortress faster.

During their trip back, neither of them said anything, even after they reached the pack house, both of them went to their respective rooms in silence, there was no word to exchange. Both of them were deep in their own thoughts, immersed so deep in their own agony and grievances.

That night, Cane had his nightmare again.

It was the time around his three years of slavery, this dream looked very lucid with all the gruesome details that he really wished to forget.

Mason had this idea to abandon all the elderly of the Howling Wolf pack in the Goffa mountain. He then forced Cane to watch them being mauled by the monsters there.

Most of the elderly were those who were no longer able to fight and even too old to walk on their own and needed constant assistance.

Therefore, Mason deemed them as a nuisance and a waste of space and food. There was no fun in keeping them around, as they were too weak for any twisted entertainment in his mind.

In that case, he came up with this brilliant idea to get rid of them all.

And that was where Cane found himself, staring from the fortress, watching twenty three elderly people that he had known for his whole life being ripped apart by the monsters. Their screams kept echoing in his mind even when he woke up.

The fear on their faces… How they begged for mercy from Mason, who just kept laughing at their misery…

The smell of their blood…

It was a complete massacre, since none of them could fight those monsters.

In less than three hours, those monsters killed off those elderly without even leaving any bones, only leaving trails of blood in their wake when they finally left after they were done with their feast.

Cane sat down and closed his eyes, but the darkness only intensified his memories, thus he got off the bed and went to his study room.

"Call Mal and Lex," Cane ordered the guard, who was standing outside of his bedroom.

Mal and Lex were the spies that he found in the other pack during his journey to Moon Dew pack.

Cane tried to track down all the spies that were scattered in the other packs; he had been reconnecting the chain of information that his father had built, because this was important for his grand plan.

The sun had not yet appeared and the sky was still so dark, but the Alpha didn't have any desire to fall asleep again, without her around, those nightmares kept haunting him restlessly.

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The next day after her trip to the Howling Wolf pack grave, Iris didn't go out of her room, she spent her time sitting on the windowsill, staring into the distance. She had not yet mentally recovered from it.

Cane didn't have any bad intention when he wanted her to see his family, because after the ceremony, she would claim the position of the Luna of the pack and no one could say otherwise, nor could they question her status.

However, Iris' mind was all over the place, she was mentally drained and this cost her physic too, because she felt exhausted to even talk with Hanna.

Meanwhile, Hanna had tried everything to find out what had happened, but her missy simply dismissed her and told her to leave her alone. It was clear she didn't want to be disturbed.

At the same time, Hanna had her own conundrum and she couldn't discuss this with Iris because she was like that, thus most of the time, they spent their time in silence when they were together in the room.

On the other hand, Jace had been trying to pry about what was the plan in Cane's mind. He became so frustrated when Cane didn't start their preparations for their departure to the capital city, despite the decree being arrived three days ago.

"Cane, are you trying to push the King to his limits? Or are you trying to wage a war against the Crown?" Jace asked the Alpha with a frown.1

Usually, he was the cold headed among the three, but this time, Ethan simply appeared not to care about his own predicament at all as he spent his time with all the people around him to his heart's content.

Other people might see him as his usual self, but in Jace and Will's eyes, he looked more like someone, who thought that they would never see these people again, thus he wanted to spend his time with them to the fullest, which could be said to be true, because his offense was too severe to be pardoned.

"If you really want to go on a war against the Crown, at least tell me, so I can prepare our warriors!" Jace was frustrated. The idea of going to a war was ridiculous, because the outcome of it was very obvious, but if that was what Cane wanted, he was ready to serve him until his last breath.

"No, there will be no war," Cane replied.

But, before the discussion could go any further and Cane could explain his plan, someone burst into the room without permission. 

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