70: YOU WILL BE WITH A CHILD

YOU WILL BE WITH A CHILD

1"How about your progress?" Cane asked her about the stones.

But, Iris grimaced because she still couldn't figure out how to distinguish the difference while feeling the two types of stones she had with her. Yes, there was a subtle yet peculiar sense unique to each type, but she still couldn't fully grasp the difference between the two.

Seeing the troubled expression on Iris' face, Cane got his answer and didn't ask further.

"Why do you want to get the air magic stone? Does that have anything to do with your curse?" Iris tried to ask about this again, but Cane didn't seem interested in answering that question. He opened the carriage door and let Iris get inside first as he sat across from her.

The alpha looked out the window and from his demeanor, it was clear he didn't want to be bothered, thus Iris didn't say anything. She kept quiet during their entire trip to the east side of the pack, where there was a big tree on top of the hill.

Iris had been there thrice before. On very rare occasions, when her father was in an extremely good mood, he would allow her to roam around the village and town.

And when she was ten years old, a month after the fall of the Howling Wolf pack, her father was over the moon and allowed her to go out of the pack house.

That was the time when Iris went to the hill again, the place that she knew from Hanna. Her personal maid had taken her there for the first time when she was seven.

Iris was staring at the garden when the carriage passed the gate. There, she saw two villagers carrying bouquets of flowers and talking to the guards.

They chatted happily and when the carriage passed them, she could read a little bit of their conversation.

"…She is recovering. She looked healthy."

"Heavens! I am so happy to hear that."

Somehow, it brought tears to Iris' eyes. Hanna had been telling her the truth, the villagers and the town people were genuine with their feelings toward her.

Iris felt like her heart was a little bit lighter, as if a huge burden had been lifted from her shoulders. Probably she was too sentimental about this, but the warmth in her heart was so real.

On the other hand, Cane saw her wipe tears from her eyes, but he said nothing.

Unbeknownst to them, there was someone watching the carriage move away, her eyes were so gloomy and her jaw was clenched. She balled her hands into fists until her nails stabbed her palms.

"Where are they going?" Aria asked Dalia, who was following her.

After her last conversation with Cane in the restroom at the training ground, Aria decided to stay away from him, in hopes the alpha would realize the void that was being filled with her presence, but from the looks of it, he was too busy with a lot of things to even remember to eat or rest properly.

However, he still made time to visit Iris for five to ten minutes every day, just to check on her.

Still, Aria hoped Cane would realize her absence sooner or later. Wise people said that absence might make the heart grow fonder.

Yet when she heard that Iris finally woke up, she couldn't help seething. More so, when the alpha asked her to have a private meeting in the library where Redmond pledged his loyalty to her.

Things seemed to progress in Iris' favor now while she was being pushed aside. The people loved her because of the sob story that Hanna told them.

So, what if she helped them?! Would they forget completely about what her father and brother had done to them?!

"They are going to the east side of the village from what I heard," Dalia told Aria. She was standing next to her, while holding a small box filled with many new accessories.

Cane didn't lie when he said that she could do whatever she wanted. He gave her a lot of money to indulge herself in the activities she didn't think she would be able to experience at all as a lowborn.

However, what Aria really wanted was Cane. She didn't want anything else.

"Why are they going there?!" Aria hissed viciously, as she turned around and looked at Dalia menacingly, as if she had done something so wrong that offended her.

"I don't know…" Dalia immediately shook her head. "I only heard about it from the guards." Aria was not satisfied with that answer and then turned around to go. "Where are you going?"

Dalia wanted to follow her, but Aria glared at her. "Don't follow me. Take care of my accessories!"

Aria was furious. She was mad that not only did Cane not care about her anymore, but he actually went out with Iris. He literally made time for her and this boiled her blood with anger.

Why did all of them care so much about what Iris had done and glossed over the fact that they had been through hell for a decade because of her father and brother?! How could they accept her readily?!

Aria couldn't help but feel so bitter about this one fact. She felt like everyone left her alone, she was alone in this darkness and her feelings turned even worse when she saw how they paid so much attention to Iris.

"Are those flowers for Iris?" Aria asked a guard, who brought a bouquet of flowers with him.

"Yes, the villagers want to give this to Miss Iris," he said.

Aria scoffed to hear the way they addressed her differently. "Give it to me."

The guard looked conflicted, but he ended up giving the flowers to the mistress, knowing her rank was way higher than his. After all, he didn't want to get on her bad side.

"Where will you bring the flowers?" The guard asked because Aria didn't walk toward Iris' bedroom and instead headed in the opposite direction.

She went to the back yard, where she threw the flowers on the ground and stepped on them after she made sure no one was nearby. She imagined it was Iris instead. She hated that woman to the core and wished she would die!

She should have killed her when she had gotten the chance! Cane would understand if she killed her out of rage. After all, they didn't need the runt! She was useless!

"I must kill you!" Aria said through her gritted teeth, she was very angry at this point and the flowers that she stepped on had been crushed, they didn't look like flowers anymore. "I should have killed you a long time ago!"

Tears of rage started to stream down her face. Aside from anger, she felt fear. She feared losing Cane. She didn't want to lose him at all. He was everything that she had. If she was not his mistress, she didn't know what she was.

The thought of being abandoned scared her so much.

In her twisted mind, she dreamed of having a family with the alpha, surrounded by children of their own, so she could soothe his pain of losing his firstborn, but recently, he barely spent any time with her and now, he got so close to that runt!

She felt abandoned.

In the end, Aria crouched down and cried. She bawled her eyes out, sobbing to her heart's content, but then she sensed someone else nearby and immediately stopped crying. She wiped her eyes furiously.

"Who is there?!" She quickly stood up and looked around her, her eyes were bloodshot from crying too much.

She didn't like it that someone else saw her in a vulnerable state like she was now. She felt so pathetic.

And from behind the tree, Aria could see Dalia walk toward her sheepishly. "It is me, mistress," she said in a small voice.

Aria glared at her. "How long have you been there?" She was furious, she really wanted to slap her.

"I followed you here, mistress," she said carefully and then raised her head to see how mad Aria was. She was about to raise her hand, but she hastily spoke. "I heard what you said, I know how your heart grew uneasy because of that runt. I have an idea. I really want to help you…"

Aria looked at her doubtfully, but then she lowered her hand. "Speak." There was no harm in listening to her.

"Mistress, to win the alpha over, you need to be with a child."

Aria blinked her eyes. She thought about that, but Cane had never talked about having children with her, thus she always drank her dragonheart earnestly.

Seeing that Aria was silent, Dalia immediately scooted over, she talked in a low, but excited voice. "Mistress, an heir is very important for the alpha. You know that, right? Mason can't be an alpha because they cut his manhood, rendering him unable to impregnate any woman, but if you are with a child, the alpha can't ignore you." She then pulled out something from her pocket. "Drink this and stop taking that dragon heart tea, you will be with a child in no time."

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