308: RETURN THE FAVOR

RETURN THE FAVOR

Once Cane arrived inside the room, he saw how Hanna was squatting down beside the bed, trying to talk to Iris, who was hiding under the bed. 2

"Get out."

Hanna was startled, she immediately straightened herself and was ready to plea with the alpha. In her mind, she thought Cane would punish her missy for whatever thing that happened between the two of them.

She still couldn't figure out how the situation had escalated so fast and took a horrible turn. Less than two days before, the alpha was so attentive with his mate, he even stayed up all night to make sure Iris was alright because of her allergy flared up, but why he looked like he was going to kill someone?

"Please, alpha… don't hurt her…" Hanna begged Cane, she clasped her hands in front of her, begging him sincerely, while Ethan, who was standing beside Cane looked confused with the whole situation.

He didn't have any idea what was actually happening here and why Hanna was crying, begging the alpha for forgiveness.

"Take her away!" Cane said sternly.

Leaving with no other choice, Ethan stepped forward and took Hanna out of the room, while she struggled from his grip, trying to talk to Cane, but the alpha didn't even spare her a glance, as Ethan dragged her out.

Once the door was closed, he still could hear how Hanna fought with Ethan, trying to get her way back into the bedroom, but the gamma was bound to oblige with the order from the alpha and couldn't let her in.

Cane tuned down the noise from outside easily, once he heard how Iris sobbed softly from under the bed. He knelt down and saw her in curling position, she hugged herself, while crying.

Carefully, Cane pushed away the bed, make sure it wouldn't hurt his mate in the process and when he finally could reach out to his mate, he pulled her into his arms, but she struggled, trying to fight him, but he didn't let her go.

Her eyes closed, while tears streamed down her face, she mumbled something incoherently.

Cane leaned over, trying to figure out what she was saying and the words came out of her mouth repeatedly was;

'I don't want to play anymore. I don't want to play anymore. I don't want to play anymore.'

After that, Iris was sick for almost two weeks, her body was literally burning, but she was trembling, feeling cold, while sweating. Healers were being called, but because of her unique constitution, healing magic didn't really work on her.

In a rare occasion when she woke up, she would cry and say something;

'I don't like this game.'

'I don't want to play.'

'Don't touch me.'

'I don't want to touch you…'

Hanna stayed by her side most of the time when Cane was away because right now, the storm that the alpha had planned was currently brewing inside the palace, as the tension and pressure were very thick, especially after the pressure from the Red Claw pack. Their alpha arrived two days ago and they demanded the king to solve the problem, or they wouldn't give any magic stone from their mines, they would stop sending them the precious magic stone.

And if that happened, it would hit the economy so hard, as the main income of this kingdom was from the trading of the magic stones.

Even a king wouldn't be a king without the power of money to feed his people.

"Red Claw pack declared a war if they really go with their threat!" King Aeon slammed his hands against the armchair, while his subjects had their head down.

Currently, there were five people inside the strategy room, aside from the king himself.

Because of the pressure and currently bad relation between the royal and the Red Claw pack, Lori, the representative of that pack, had been dismissed from this meeting and in his chair, Cane was sitting among the other king's righthand men.

"They can't do that, it's part of their tax toward the crown!" Jeremiah said brusquely, it could be said, he was the one, who was very enthusiastic if the war between the royal and the Red Claw pack broke out, because as the neighboring pack, he could take this opportunity to swallow the richest pack in the whole kingdom.

This kind of pattern was the same like what happened between the Blue Moon pack and the Howling Wolf pack. Everyone would salivate upon having control on the Red Claw pack's mines.

It was so pathetic how fast these people turned their back to their fellow king's righthand men when personal interest was gotten in the mix of the conflict.

They showed their true color and intention in the face of the opportunity to gain power.

Jeremiah was the most blatant out of the other three, while Kade, representative from the Celestial Moon pack didn't seem interest with the topic, since this morning he received news from his pack there was another monster wave and more people died during the battle.

He had been begging the king to send more warrior to help, but the current situation in the capital city was his main excuse for him to tell Kade to wait. He was not pleased.

While Cane still tried to feel where the other two stood in this matter.

The meeting last for more than three hours and during that time, Cane and Kade were the quiet one, they wouldn't say a word if it was not necessary, as they watched how those people tried to suggest solution to the king.

In the end of it, there was no solid decision was made.

Cane immediately left the strategy room to go back to see his mate before he went to meet with Haco secretly.

However, on his way, he met with prince Kellan. The same warrior was pushing his wheelchair and he smiled so brightly, like the sun in the early summer. So bright and hurting your eyes.

Cane smiled back at him.

"Alpha Cane, finally I can meet with you again." Kellan approached Cane in his wheelchair. "The children in the orphanage really enjoy the company of your men."

Cane sent half of his warriors to the orphanage to stay with the kind in the pretext, they could help with the construction.

"I am glad they behaved in front of the children."

Kellan laughed and Cane smiled. It was a beautiful picture to see two powerful men got along well, or so how it looked like.

"I want to thank you for the wine you gave me the other day, it's taste so good, it's one of my favorites, I drink it every night before I slept and just like you said, it helps me to sleep faster. How can I get it?"

"Just tell me if you are running out of it, I will send you more."

"Oh, I can't do that."

"You don't need to be polite with me, my prince. You have helped me a lot with the citizen. I am someone, who will not forget to pay my gratitude, neither I will forget someone's debt, even in their death bed, I will return the favor."

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