351: A LITTLE THING ABOUT HER

A LITTLE THING ABOUT HER

"What is it?" Iris's blue eyes lit up, they looked so pretty under this starry sky. 

Even when Cane appreciated the serenity of this forest and the quietness to his liking, still, it was her presence that brought peace to his chaotic mind, the tranquility he craved. 

Cane stared at her for a little bit longer. Strands of her hair fluttered by the wind and she shuddered a little bit when the coldness caressed her rosy cheeks. Her curls looked unkempt and Cane noticed, how she tried to tame her hair every morning, because she became very conscious every time he looked at her in such messy hair. 

However, little did Iris know, how Cane liked to watch her that way. She looked adorable in her way, as she clumsily ran her fingers through the tangled of her locks. 

"What is it?" Iris asked again because Cane said nothing and kept staring at her. 

"Because we can't use the mindlink, as the connection had been severed, I want us to have a way to communicate without anyone knowing it." Cane only managed to mend the link between him and his gamma and beta, but even so, they needed to stand within three steps away, further than that, it wouldn't work. 

"How?" Iris looked excited when she read that. She scooted closer, seemingly eager to have more things, which only belonged to the two of them. 

Cane smiled to see her expression. He had expected this, but somehow, it still managed to warm his heart. He stretched his hands to readjust her cloak, so she felt a little bit warmer. 

"Finish your food first." 

Iris's face fell, she pouted and docilely ate her food.

But, when she was eating, Cane leaned over and kissed her head, which surprised her, but when she looked up, he had put his attention on his food again. 

Iris lowered her head, but the tip of her ears turned redder. Iris noticed this was the first time, Cane kissed her again, since they started this journey back to the south packs, because the only interaction they had was during their meal and Cane usually didn't talk much. 

Why he suddenly kissed me?

Iris munched her meat slowly, while not too far from them, the little lizard had finished its food and sprawled on the floor, feeling happy because its tummy was full. 

Somehow, Cane had been using this little lizard like no other than a lighter, instead of a rare creature, which supposed to belong to a Serafim. 

Thankfully, the lizard no longer tried to burn the alpha, since it found it was a waste of energy, since Cane would heal pretty fast. 

More so, the bad alpha fed it, thus there was no need for it to piss him off. 

"I am done," Iris said. 

Meanwhile, Cane had finished his food long time ago and now he was preparing a makeshift bed for Iris, while he sat next to her. 

Though the weather was still rather cold and monsters should have not been woken up from their hibernation, but he didn't want to take the risk. 

Cane would tell Iris that he needed to stay alert when she asked him to lay down as well, but when Iris offered him to take turn to watch, he only rubbed her head and told her to sleep. 

"What we will do now?" Iris couldn't hide her excitement. 

Cane waved his hand and told Iris to sit down on the makeshift bed. "It's pretty simple."

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"Who is that person?" Redmond furrowed his brows deeply, as he and the other warrior from the Howling Wolf pack watched the ceremony of the new head of the royal sorcerer. "I can't find anything about him."

Ethan, who was standing next to him, shook his head. "I don't know either."

"Have you asked to Leros and Clad?" Redmond clicked his tongue in annoyance, he hated it when he couldn't find the thing he needed. 

"They are still trying to look into this person's background."

"Ask those people from Red Claw pack too," Redmond reminded the gamma, which annoyed him. 

Ethan glared at the warrior beside him. "Why are you ordering me around?"

Redmond scoffed when he heard Ethan's outburst. "Of course, because you are the one, who in charge here!"1

"Hey, hey, cut it out, okay? We are surrounded by people!" Trion hissed. He had been having a headache whenever he had to be the peacemaker between the two of them, to keep them from clawing each other faces. 

It should be Will or Aderan, who were here, but the alpha prevented the two of them to step into the palace. Right now, the two were in charge in the orphanage with a few warriors, since the alpha didn't bring anyone with him. 

"Calm down, okay?" Trion took the risk and inserted himself between the two growling warriors. He felt like he could die one day from keeping them in line.

This task was even harder than his actual assignment. 

"It's not me, who started it!" Redmond snarled through his gritted teeth. 

"So, you want to say it's me?!" Ethan countered. 

Trion could do nothing, but tried to shush the two of them. 

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After the punishment of the head sorcerer and a few other people that was deemed responsible for the crime of black magic and the curse on princess Osana, Alan was still locked inside the dungeon. 

But, three days after the ceremony of the new head of the royal sorcerer, when the people had dispersed after the king made it public that the lycan out there and the royal made a proper search team with Ethan as the head of it in order to hunt down the lycan and looked for the missing luna Iris and prince Vemion, this gesture soothed the people, as they dispersed and was no longer camped outside of the palace gates. 

Yet, on the fifth days, because of the investigation was still ongoing and lack of proof that the crown prince was the mastermind behind the black magic and the person, who summoned the lycan and more so because there was a suspicion he was being trapped by his enemy withing the court, Alan finally moved to home arrest, where he would stay inside his room, not allowed to step out, until everything was clear. 

Once again, the uproar happened and Red Claw pack retaliated. There were a lot of rumors among the citizen, which would last for the next new year. Public's opinion divided, but most of them on the favor of stripping down the crown prince from his status. 

And after the pressure from the public and the Red Claw pack, on the twelfth day of the lycan appeared and kidnapped luna Iris and the alpha Cane also went missing, Alan was stripped from his title as the crown prince and it was Jared Aiden Ogregon, the son of the fourth prince, Vemion, who would be crowned as the next ruler. 

The baby was only days old and it was not a wise choice to make him the crown prince, yet the power behind this little one was way more powerful and had the upperhand in this situation.

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