BAD WOLF ALPHA
Lady Cyan was a very graceful and reserved woman, albeit she was no longer a young maiden, but her beauty was enough to make any men smitten. There was something about her that would make you wanted to lower your head and succumb to her. She emanated a mysterious aura and the way she carried herself was something that even the queen couldn't pull it through.0
People looked more careful around her, even the king kept his act together and more vigilant, while the brazen crown prince stood at the back of them, his head hung low, like a little child, who just got an earful scolding.
That was how Cane saw the whole situation, even the atmosphere was slightly change with the presence of lady Cyan.
However, the lady in question had her eyes on Iris, she observed the auburn girl calmly, so not raising any suspicion.
Among all the people, who attended, Lou was one of them because he was considered as an important figure and also, more or less, involved with this whole mess.
Iris squeezed Cane's hand because she felt suffocated by all the attention that these people gave to her, she was fighting the urge to flee from this place.
She almost felt like she went back to the day when she was being introduced as Cane's slave to welcome the king and the alphas, standing naked in front of so many people, as they humiliated her. She felt like the humiliation would come very soon, once she failed to do her task, which this feeling didn't help to make her be more confidence.
Iris breathed erratically, she was panic.
"How can your mate help with this?" King Aeon asked after a short pleasantry with Cane.
The dead witch had been confirmed that she used black magic before she died and the needle, she used to stab Cane solidified the claim, thus it would be too much and hilarious if the king insisted that the alpha was the one, who used a black magic instead.
Even the crown prince couldn't persist with the same accusation. It would make him looked stupid, just like what Ethan said.
"Lets the leader of the royal sorcerer to check the trace of black magic on me," Cane said, as he looked at the old sorcerer, who had his head hung so low.
Their encounter this morning must have left him in difficult position, since the dark witch came from his rank. His position was at stake now.
"Go," King Aeon said irritably, which the old sorcerer immediately scrambled to Cane's side and checked on him.
He confirmed the black magic on him after a thorough examination, which took more than ten minutes. It was not so easy to check a black magic, unless it caused fatal result, like what happened to princess Osana.
"Can you tell what the witch put on me with the needle she stabbed me with?"
A complicated look flitted in the old sorcerer's eyes. "I am not sure. The needle must be a media…" he trailed off.
However, Cane didn't expect him to explain it, he only wanted people to see how incapable the head of the royal sorcerer was.
"Do you bring it with you?" Cane asked Iris instead and she nodded, as she fished out the white dagger that he had given her before he left. "Do it now."
Iris knew what she was going to do, but she couldn't bring herself to do it again. Her hands were shaking.
Seeing that, Cane held her hand to calm her down. "It's okay." And the next words, he simply mouthed, thus no one could know what he was saying. "You did it before, you can do it now."
That was right, Iris had done it before, she stabbed Cane in his lycan form and took out the shard of the black magic stone, but the situation was different. In the past, she managed to do it out of impulse, it was a matter of life and death, though it could be said almost the same like right now, but how could she cut him opened consciously?
"What is this? How long are you two plan to hold hands?!" Alan shouted from behind the king and queen, being a brat like usual.
But, before the king could utter a single warning, lady Cyan cleared her throat and the crown prince recoiled.
This subtle power play that lady Cyan showed didn't go unnoticed by Cane. He wondered what kind of power this mistress held?
"Show me the spot," Cane said.
Iris pointed the exact spot where the witch had stabbed him. "Here."
And without a second thought, with his hand that was holding Iris's hand, he made an incision on the spot she showed him with the same dagger she held.
Iris gasped when she saw blood oozed out from the wound, her hand was trembling. If it was not for Cane, who held her hand firmly, she would have dropped the dagger.
"Take it out," he said.
Still feeling dreadful, Iris dug onto his flesh with her fingers to take out the shard of the black magic stone from him. The feeling was nauseated. It was slicky and warm.
Iris glanced at Cane, but he didn't even flinch. It showed how great his endurance of pain was…
This small incision must be nothing compared to what he had to endure for a decade in the hand of her father and brother's hand.
Her heart constricted when she imagined that.
It took Iris less than one minute to take out the shard black magic stone out of his flesh and gave it to Cane, which the alpha tossed it to the head of royal sorcerer.
A black dot glinted under the luminous pearl and the light of fire from the brazier in this room.
All of them held their breath, waiting for the head sorcerer to confirm it and more than five minutes later, the head sorcerer confirmed it.
"Yes, this is a shard of black magic stone…" he said, as he held a very small piece of magic stone that had suffused by black magic and then looked at Iris in astonishment. "How… how can you find it?"
Iris could even find it inside someone's body, which was unthinkable. As the head of the sorcerer for the royal family, it meant, he held a powerful magic, but even so, he doubted he could find this small shard within someone else's body.
This kind of ability was unheard of.
Unfortunately, Iris didn't see the question, neither she cared about other people's amazement in her, because right now, her focus was on the incision on Cane's arm. She looked worried and wiped the blood by using the sleeve of her dress, which stained her white sleeve into red color.
"It will heal soon," Cane said, as he stopped what Iris was doing. True to his word, his incision healed very quickly.
On the other hand, Lou's eyes squinted to see this. His desire to know more about this runt made him wanted to take her away from that bad wolf alpha.
But there was another person inside the room, who shared the same interest as him too.
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