348: MY BROTHER IS ALREADY HERE

MY BROTHER IS ALREADY HERE

"Tired?" Iris asked, breeze wind caressed her rosy cheeks. "Come here…" she patted her laps. 1

Who would be able to turn down such a tempting offer? Obviously not Cane, because the next second, he had his head laid down on her laps, he was bone weary and couldn't care less about his surroundings, the only thing that he knew, he was surrounded by this blissful scent of his mate and the way she caressed his head, eased him to sleep faster.

It didn't take long before Cane fell into a deep slumber, while they were taking a shelter under the shades of the tree, as the sun appeared from the horizon behind them.

Iris ran her fingers through his hair, as she occasionally kissed his forehead. Cane was too comfortable to even wake up. He slept like a baby and for once, Iris could see a young boy, who had exhausted his energy to survive in this cruel world.

If she could, she wanted to shield him from all the bad thing, yet they were surrounded by it and she held no power to do so. The only thing she was able to do for him was to offer a place to rest.

Iris hummed and looked at her surroundings, while she waited for Cane to wake up. She covered his face with her hand, so the light of the sun wouldn't wake him up when it close to noon. She didn't move even when she felt her legs were going numb.

She liked this silence inside this forest, while staring at the sleeping Cane. The scar on his face was a proof of the cruelty of her father and what he had gone through to survive.

However, the serenity didn't last long when Iris caught a movement behind bushes not too far from her. Here, the grasses and bushes had started to grow and the weather was slightly warm, though the sun was not as scorching as in the afternoon summer. It was warm enough for monsters to wake up from their deep slumber during winter.

"Cane…" Iris was afraid it was a monster or something and she could feel her little lizard moved from her pocket, climbed to her shoulder in anticipation.

The lizard found her when she and Cane finished talking with Koda and alpha Derick. This little creature had grown and now it was the size of half of her palm and pretty smart to sneak out of her bedroom to find her. Thus, this creature came with her and Cane as well on their way to the Riverside pack.

"Cane." Iris nudged Cane, but he still slept soundlessly. Her heart leapt to her throat and she was ready to scream and push him to wake up, but as it turned out, it was Will. "Will? Heaven! You scared me…" Iris clutched her chest.

The little lizard tilted its tiny head and when he recognized Will, he went to hide inside Iris's pocket again, taking a nap.

Will looked at Iris and then Cane. "I am sorry," he said in small voice, as he came over to them, while bringing a bag and something in small box, which Iris could guess it was food. She was hungry and she only realized it now.

"Here, eat something." He put down the bag and the box.

"How can you find us here?" Iris asked in low voice, so she wouldn't wake Cane up.

"I can smell your scent." They should have met hours ago, but apparently, the lycan had run too fast, which could be equal with two a day worth of trip, thus it took Will hours to catch up with him, though he went out of the capital city first.

The lycan was moving extremely fast.

"Oh." Iris couldn't understand, how she kept forgetting that fact… "Where are you going?" she asked Will when he stood up and was about to leave.

Iris didn't know what happened to Will and Cane didn't want to answer her question, but this warrior became very cold and distance. She caught Hanna cried a few times and she knew what the reason.

Hanna was at lost about Will's indifference and the way he became so cold toward her, even Iris could tell. Because she knew how Will used to stare at Hanna and how both of them would always smile at each other. They both made each other happy, but what changed?

"I need to go back to the capital city, there are a lot of things need to take care of," he explained briefly. He didn't raise his voice, neither he talked in mean way, but Iris was able to feel how distance he was.

"Will, why did you avoid Hanna? Do you know how much she cried?" Iris couldn't help but asked this out of the blue and Will's body stiffened, he turned around and left without saying anything and Iris couldn't prevent him from leaving, because Cane was still sleeping on her laps.

In the end, it was only the two of them again in this quiet forest.

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The labor was traumatizing and even after the baby was out, Laluna was still crying. She hated the pain and she couldn't help, but hated the sound of her firstborn cry, everything fell so wrong.

And what worst was; nobody cared about her wellbeing aside from her midwives and her ladies, while lady Ayla and the other people from the Red Claw pack checked on the baby and called a few healers to examine him because the labor lasted for hours and it was midnight when Laluna finally gave birth to her son.

There was no word of encouragement, they didn't even look at her way at all.

She was in so much pain and her heart broke into pieces, especially when her own family was not here and her mate had long gone, people believed he had died by now.

But then, Laluna was skeptical even if Vemion was here, he would pay attention to her.

Laluna was in agony as they took her baby away, her emotions were all over the places, but she was not the only woman in this majestic palace, who was in so much pain.

Nala curled her body on the floor, she was once again naked, stains of blood on the carpeted floor, as her other bruises and cuts started to heal. She didn't move an inch, because she was in so much pain after what the king had done to her.

King Aeon vented his disappointment and frustration about the whole situation toward her and he didn't even care whether she would be able to make it.

Not too far from Nala, king Aeon sat on his chair with lady Cyan on his laps, the lady tried to soothe his anger by calling a few other women to satisfy the king, in which saved Nala from her death.

Those women had left now and it was only the three of them inside this study room, but Laluna's presence was nothing, but dirt in the king's eyes. He hated Leon to fail his task again and again.

"My brother is here. You can send the head of royal warrior to the gallows to calm the people," lady Cyan said.

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