196: CAN'T YOU HANDLE ONE?

CAN'T YOU HANDLE ONE?

Cane woke up the moment Iris got off the bed and he watched how she put her cloak and clumsily neatened her messy curls, but in the end, she gave up and walked toward the door.

However, Redmond and Will had been knocking and calling for him since a few minutes ago.

He didn't want to meet with them and face their countless questions, especially when he had to deal with Redmond regarding the issue of the lycan. The warrior, absolutely, would give him a hard time.

Therefore, he didn't say anything, more so, he wanted to know what Iris was going to say to him and how she would handle the situation.

He didn't have high hopes for her, but what he heard was beyond his expectation. The woman actually stood up for him.

This room was not like the Alpha or the Luna's room, which was sound proof, thus he could hear their conversation clearly from behind the closed door.

He heard everything; how Redmond tried to persuade Iris to give up on him and report this to the King. If Cane was someone else, he would have agreed with what Redmond said, because that was true.

How long could he keep this secret? And what would happen if the secret ever came to light?

Iris got the perfect opportunity to save herself and turn her back against the man that had forced himself on her.

Yet, she was very naïve to turn it down and even get angry on his behalf.

Cane closed his eyes, listening to how Redmond tried to edge Iris over and how she defended him in the only way she knew.

He only got off the bed when he heard the door slammed close, Iris must not have realized the strength that she used.

And when Cane walked toward the door, he found her slumped down on the floor, hugging herself. Her curly, auburn hair looked messy, which made her look like she was wearing a big red cloak from this position.

Somehow, Cane couldn't resist the urge to touch her, to run his fingers through her curls, he wanted to be close to her.

What an irony…

He became infatuated with the only woman that he shouldn't. When did all of this start? Was it when he marked her in his lycan form? So, as long as the curse was on him, he would always feel this way toward her? What about the lycan and Iris?

There were so many unanswered questions.

Iris raised her head abruptly when she felt someone touched her, she was startled to see Cane and this made him retract his hand and stood up.

"Get up, I need to go out."

Iris was sitting right behind the door, thus Cane couldn't go if she didn't move away.

"Oh." Iris immediately stood up and stepped aside to let him walk out of the room, but before Cane left her, he turned around and put his finger under her chin to lift her head, so she could look at him.

"Redmond knows about the curse, do you think it is worth it to let him alive?"

Cane's intention was very clear. He was going to see Redmond and kill him, since he was not reliable with the secret, especially after what he suggested to Iris.

Keeping him would backfire at him someday if they couldn't control this warrior, but killing him had its own disadvantages as well. He led around a thousand former warriors of the Blue Moon pack, after all. They could revolt without Redmond controlling them and from what Cane learned, his second in command, Lyle, was even worse than Redmond in terms of harboring hostility toward the Howling Wolf pack.

Therefore, he needed to tread this matter carefully.

"Can we… not kill him?" Iris asked carefully, because she was afraid that Cane would misunderstand her. "He has placed his loyalty in me, he will not betray me."

"Yes, but it is not about you." Cane wanted to see what Iris was going to do. This was why he waited until she regained consciousness to involve her in this matter.

The only solution in this sensitive matter was for Iris to step forward and assert herself as the Luna, as the person that Redmond had pledged his loyalty to. She needed to press him, but knowing her soft and gentle nature, it was not an easy task for her. It was actually something almost impossible.

Yet, seeing how Iris had stood up for him earlier made Cane realize she was not as timid as he thought she was.

"What do you want me to do?" Iris blinked her eyes, she was trying to read the situation and what he wanted from her, but she was not good at it.

"What do you think you should do?" Cane asked her back. He wanted Iris to really realize the gravity of this situation and make her own decision.2

Iris furrowed her brows, a complicated look flashed in her blue eyes. "Cane, I can't do this. You can make the decision and I will agree with you."

Iris had been living quietly and was used to people not noticing her because her father didn't like it when she interacted with someone else, which made her become so passive.

Yet, only recently she figured out that she could be a chatterbox when she talked with someone that made her comfortable, or she was actually brave enough to stab the lycan because the situation required her to do so.

There were a lot of things that she figured out about herself, but still, it was still a long way to go before she could come out of her shell. Her brother always told her how useless she was and that was what she believed.

Right now, she was afraid to make such a big decision.

"Sure, I can do that." Cane nodded, which made Iris sigh in relief, but it didn't last, because what he said next left her completely stunned. "Until when will you rely on me? I have seven thousand people relying on me, can't you handle one?"

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