338: THEY FOUND SOMETHING

THEY FOUND SOMETHING

Iris followed Cane to check on the whole wizard tower, there were hundred of royal warriors under Cane's authority, who flipped the whole things within the tower to get information that they needed and among those people, there were Howling Wolf's warriors as well. 2

During this mess and their main assignment to find information about the black magic, no one would notice that Cane's warriors were looking for different information entirely, since they knew, they wouldn't find anything there.

Iris was not sure, what they were looking for, but of course, it would be something that would benefit Cane and add more to his knowledge about the whole palace affair. Her head was throbbing painfully because of lack of sleep to think Cane's complicated scheme, she didn't think her brain would be on par with his even when she was in a good condition.

However, Iris couldn't help it, it was only two hours before sunrise and her eyelids felt so heavy. She couldn't resist to doze off, as she sat down on a chair, leaning her head against the wall beside her.

On the other hand, Cane immersed himself in the logbook that noted down all the activities the royal sorcerer had done in the previous years. He was inside the study room of the head sorcerer, only with Iris, while the other warriors rummaged the other part of this wizard tower.

It took him a long time before he realized Iris had fallen asleep, curling herself on the chair, hugging her knees, and almost fell.

He took long strides to reach her and secured her body before she hurt herself. For a moment, he stared at her with his deep gaze, as he caressed her cheek. This woman didn't know how crucial this situation was and how important her role in his grand scheme. He wouldn't be able to pull it through without her and made all the progress ran smoothly. It was faster than he imagined to reach this point and got his hand on this classified information of the royal sorcerer.

Cane knelt down in front of Iris and kissed her hand, while whispering a simple appreciation of 'thank you'.

He meant it.

Cane put down the logbook on the floor and carefully picked Iris's body up, as he headed toward a long sofa and put her down there gently. She was still asleep. She literally could sleep everywhere and he found this trait of her was endearing, though he would like her to be more cautious with her surroundings for her own safety.

He took the book and then walked back to the sofa, as he cradled her head and put it on his laps, as he sat down.

Cane used one hand to read the logbook, while his other hand absentmindedly played with her hair, feeling the soft strands between his fingers, as the sun rose in the horizon, dyed the sky into bright color, through the window, the golden light spilled inside this room, adding the serenity between the two people.

Iris slept through the morning and only woke up around afternoon, but Cane was not there, instead, it was Hanna, who was waiting for her with a tray of food. It was lunch time.

"Where is Cane?" Iris asked, as she pushed herself from the sofa and a cloak fell from her body to her laps. She rubbed her eyes sleepily.

"The alpha is in the main hall with all the important people," Hanna informed her with complicated look on her eyes.

Reading that, Iris immediately sat straight, her sleepiness disappeared almost immediately. For Cane to be in the main hall with all the important people was not something that you could take lightly, there must be something big was going on while she was sleeping.

"What happened?" Iris immediately pulled Hanna to sit down next to her. She realized, she was still in the head royal sorcerer's study room and it must be Cane, who had put her on the sofa, while he covered her with his cloak, his scent lingered around her body and she liked it.

"Something big happened miss," Hanna said in small voice, as if she was afraid there was someone, who would listen to their conversation, though it was not possible, since Trion and Redmond stood on guard outside, while most of the royal magic users knelt down in front of the king palace, begging for the king for forgiveness and showed mercy on them.

"Tell me what?" Iris became anxious to see Hanna like this. Her heart hammered her chest, as her mind started to think all the worse possible thing that could happen, while she was sleeping.

Hanna told Iris that they found the crown prince's stamp inside the dead witch's chamber. The crown prince stamp was not as powerful as the golden stamp that currently in Cane's possession, but that stamp had significant authority.

The problem was; because of how neglectful and careless Alan was; he used to lose it a few times ever since he was given the title as the crown prince.

If he could be so reckless with the golden stamp, of course, it was not a shocking news if he lost this one as well.

Usually, they would create new stamp and annulled the previous one. At this point, the crown prince probably didn't even realize he had lost it, until they found it in an unexpected place.

The fact one of the crown prince stamps was found inside the dead witch's chamber led them to put him under the suspect.

The narration of the situation turned him into the suspect of the perpetrator behind the black magic and the lycan appearance, so did the monster attack inside the palace.

Those were heavy crimes and if it was proven right, no matter how much the king favored his son, the king would incur wrath of the people if he turned blind eyes with this mishap and gave Alan a light punishment, like he did when he mishandled the golden stamp.

"What!?" Iris was dumfounded. How could Cane get his hand on the crown prince's stamp? How he managed to do that? Crown prince's palace was heavily guarded, not all people could come and go as they pleased.

"All the people ask the king to allow alpha Cane to check on his palace, but the crown prince was adamant to not let anyone to step into his place, but it doesn't look good on him, because it makes people suspect him even more."

Hanna then took the tray and put it on Iris's laps.

"You need to eat first miss, because the alpha said, he will come to fetch you, because he needs your help again."

"With what?" Iris was more than willing to help, but Cane was very unpredictable and she couldn't figure out what he would ask her to do.

"I don't know." Hanna then leaned over and spoke in whispery tone, though it didn't make any different for Iris. "Miss, the king is strongarm this information from leaking out to the public, but the alpha has ordered his men to start spreading the rumor. I overheard the conversation between him and Ethan."

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