175: SHE IS BAD LUCK!

SHE IS BAD LUCK!

"Next time, refrain yourself from chiding them over trivial things." Cane didn't like it when Aria was about to scold the little boy for something that was so insignificant earlier. He could tell that she was only holding back because he was there.

"I am sorry about that, I just thought that the boy bothered you, since you looked so troubled and worried with the problem of the strange illness." Aria lowered her head, she looked remorseful, but Cane didn't prolong the topic and kept his silence.

He enjoyed the innocent laughter of those children and how their voices chirped happily. Their world must be so beautiful and pure if they could still laugh like that after all they had gone through and how they lost their families.

Cane hoped, one day, he would find that kind of peace too.

"Do you know the name of that little boy?"

Aria gave a start at that random question. "What? The boy that approached you earlier?" She asked, but actually, she was trying to remember his name. "James," she blurted out the first name that came to her mind, because she couldn't remember that little boy's name. No. She didn't even know his name.

Moreover, Cane wouldn't know his name either, right? There were so many children here.

"No. His name is Archer," Cane said simply. Aria spent three weeks in the orphanage, so she must remember some of them, even if she couldn't remember them all.

"Ah, I mixed it up with another boy's name. I will remember that."

Cane said nothing, but continued to sit there in silence.

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"What happened to you?" Jace noticed there was something unusual with Cane. He looked a little bit pale and was unusually sluggish. "Are you listening?"

"Hm?" Cane raised his head and stared at the Beta. "I am fine."

Jace shook his head and put away the scrolls of reports in front of him. "No, this will not do. You need to take a rest. It is almost midnight."

This time, Cane didn't refuse, as he went to the bed, which was another surprising thing for Jace to see how obedient the Alpha was being. Probably, he was really in pain.

But then, his expression grew fearful, as he remembered something important.

The Beta rushed toward the door and issued an order to the guard there. "Call Grace here immediately!"

He remembered that this afternoon Cane went to the orphanage to see the children that mysteriously fell ill. Their symptoms were the same as his now. At night, they got fever and fell unconscious the next day.

Was the childrens' illness really contagious? If that was the case, his sister, Grace, Ardand and most of the children in the orphanage must have been infected by now.

Jace looked at the Alpha's complexion and he became restless. He was not sure whether this was contagious or not, but he couldn't let anyone come closer to this room.

Meanwhile, Iris was sleeping soundly when she suddenly woke up feeling unwell. Her ears kept ringing painfully and she heard the howling sound so close, as if the beast was right next to her.

Iris looked around her room, the fire in the fireplace was the only source of light, while the moon shone brightly in the night sky.

This was not a new moon, but why did she hear this sound so vividly? Did something happen to Cane?

The only time she could hear was the time when Cane shifted into his lycan form. But for some reason, she could hear his beast now. Was this the same? Did he shift into his lycan even if it was not a new moon?

Plagued with a lot of questions, Iris immediately got off the bed and rushed toward the door that connected their rooms. She was only wearing a thin nightdress while her auburn hair bloomed around her little face with big curls that looked messy, but she couldn't care less about her appearance right now because her concern was Cane.

Something was not right.

"Cane?" Iris called him. This was the first time for her to use this connecting door, but she was surprised to find there were a lot of people there.

Jace, Grace, Ardand and Aria. The four of them circled around the bed, as they were talking about something that she couldn't read.

When her voice rang inside the room, all of them whipped their heads around toward Iris, who emerged from the door, barefooted. She looked clumsy and worried.

"What happened here? What happened to Cane?" Her heart palpitated when she sensed the tension inside the room. It was so thick and suffocating.

All of them were silent, unsure how to answer her question, but this made Iris grow restless. She quickened her steps toward the bed to see for herself what was going on with Cane.1

However, as Iris got closer to him, suddenly this wave of uneasy feeling crashed over her senses, leaving her completely senseless for a few seconds, as she staggered back. She was a little bit dizzy, because of this ominous feeling.

Seeing that, Jace was about to step forward to catch her, because she looked like she was about to faint, but Aria beat him to it.

She rushed toward Iris, but not to help her, instead, she pushed her harshly. "Stay away from him! You are bad luck for our pack!" She screamed at the top of her lungs, her eyes were so red because she had been crying. "I have told you before that you are bad luck! Go back to your pack!"

"Aria!" Jace held her hand, just in case she tried to attack Iris again, while Grace immediately rushed forward to help Iris to stand up.

"Are you okay?" Grace asked Iris.

"Throw her away from this pack! She is unlucky!" Aria shouted.

Meanwhile, Iris raised her head. She looked calm, but surprisingly, she glared at Aria the next moment. She didn't do anything, but why would she always blame her?

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