39: HER ONLY SIN IS SHE IS HER FATHER'S DAUGHTER

HER ONLY SIN IS SHE IS HER FATHER'S DAUGHTER

Ethan took a stealthy glance at Cane once again and the sun that just appeared on the horizon.0

The alpha shouldn't be in his human form yet. At this time, he should usually start to regain his sanity back slowly and only in the afternoon would he be completely clear to meet other people. But most of the time, he would be too exhausted and sleep until the next morning.

However, hours before the sunrise, he had shifted into his human form and was seemingly sane enough to hold a conversation.

Why was it?

Ethan looked at Iris, who was lying on the bed. Her blood had stopped flowing, but she was exceptionally pale. If it was not for the rise and fall of her chest indicating she was breathing, he would have thought that she was long dead.

Meanwhile, Amee was trying her best to keep her alive. She grinded herbs not too far from them, then brewed them and helped Iris to drink the potion.

On the other hand, Cane had been standing in the same position since they took Iris to this room. His expression was unreadable.

This was the room next to the alpha's room, where Aria usually would sleep after her night with the alpha.

"What are the other alphas and the king doing now?" Finally, Cane broke the silence.

"They are hunting. They went to Goffa mountain early this morning and will return before the sun is down," Ethan replied to the question.

"How is she now?" Cane shifted his attention from Iris to Amee.

"Her condition is not really great to begin with and now…" Amee frowned slightly. "We can lose her anytime. She lost so much blood."

Silence descended among them again.

"What will you do when she is finally awake?" Amee finally asked the question that had been gnawing at her mind ever since she saw the wound on Iris's neck.

Cane narrowed his eyes at the question. "Is it there?"

"Yes, you have marked her." Amee looked at the alpha with a complicated expression. While it was a big shock for Ethan, Cane seemed to have an idea about it.

"What? You marked her?" Ethan was flabbergasted, he looked back and forth between Cane, Amee and the unconscious Iris. "But, why? Why did you mark her?!"

"I don't think it was intentional, Cane was not in his right mind at that time." Amee shushed Ethan to not make a fuss.

Ethan read the situation quite fast and clamped his mouth shut. How could he mark his enemy's daughter? Cane must feel really awful right now, even though he didn't show it, as his expression remained stoic.

"I don't know if my herbs will help her, but it is better to call the healer," Amee suggested. "She is in critical condition. I don't think her body will be able to endure the mark."

However, the problem was; if they let other people see the wound, they would immediately recognize the mark on her neck and it wouldn't do them any good.

"No." Cane rejected the idea. "If she lives, I will deal with her, if she dies, we will bury her."

However, he wished she lived, he needed to know how she ended the curse sooner than it was supposed to be.

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"Sir, may I know if there is a possibility… the alpha has my missy?" Hanna had been looking for Iris for more than three days now, since the night they took her to the welcoming party, as she had not yet returned.

She was very worried. She had been asking around about what happened in the introduction, but from what she gathered, Iris had left in the middle of the introduction when the gamma brought Mason into the room and distracted them.

However, no one knew where she was.

"Is Miss Iris with the alpha?" Hanna asked Ethan again. She gathered some courage and finally went to see the gamma near the dungeon, since he was in charge of those people, who were waiting for the execution.

Ethan frowned as he folded his arms across his chest. "Hanna," he called her name, tired. He knew that this servant had been looking for Iris for the past three days and she eventually would come to him or Jace. "She will return once she is in good condition."

Hanna gasped. "Do you mean she is sick? Where is she? I will take care of her." Hanna looked agitated to know that Iris was sick, knowing how people from the Howling Wolf pack hated her, she wouldn't be treated well in this pack house.

"You need to stop this, Hanna." Ethan frowned. "We, people from the Howling Wolf pack, greatly appreciate what you have done for us during our time of need, but you need to stop defending her."

"Why should I stop?" Hanna squared her shoulders. She knew that she would get into trouble if she was being stubborn, especially with someone of a high rank like Ethan.

"Because she is not worth it."

Hanna had heard that over and over again, but it didn't make it easy for her to accept that. "Did she ever try to hurt you or your people?" Hanna asked, her eyes were so bright when she talked about Iris. "Did she ever lay a hand on you and your people? Hurt you and the others in any way possible? Or starved you, or asked someone to rape you! Her only sin is that she is her father's daughter. She can't choose her father, but she is nothing like him!"

Hanna's voice was so firm, which took Ethan aback and a few other guards that were there.

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Cane was having a headache after he ended the meeting with the five alphas and the king about the petition of merging the two packs.

But of course, those five alphas were strongly against the idea. They didn't like the prospect that their packs would be weaker than Cane's two packs merged together and he couldn't push further, since he couldn't afford to agitate them yet.

In the end, Cane went to the room where Iris was still lying unconscious.

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