The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy’s Daughter Chapter 115
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“That thing.” Cane tapped her shoulder and nodded at the top of her hair, his brows knitted. If that little lizard breathed fire right now, her hair would be burned. “Don’t let anyone else to see it.”
“Okay.” Iris reached her hair and caressed the little lizard, as it nuzzled at her finger.
After that, Cane led the way.
“Why that thing hides in your hair?” Redmond frowned, he was displeased to see such
creature.
Not only him, but the rest of them also didn’t understand why they had to take that lizard with them when they could kill it or let it go in the nature.
Cane only told them Iris found the little lizard inside the cave, but he didn’t tell them about how it appeared, since they didn’t know about the fire magic stone, thus there was no need to alarm them about it.
Especially when Redmond was here. Cane didn’t have any intention to explain a single thing to him.
“I don’t know…” Iris replied. “Maybe the lizard likes it.” She couldn’t come with a better reason and Redmond scoffed.
“Come on, we need to go, you have delayed us!” Redmond said, as he grabbed Iris’s hand to walk toward his horse.
He was always acting brash, but because Iris had gotten used to it, thus she didn’t complain and follow him to the horse, as he helped her to mount it.
Even before they moved, Iris could feel her butt was already in pain. The pain from yesterday had not yet relieved.
“This will be only a day ride, hold on.” Redmond’s voice was curt, it was not sure, whether he was encouraging her or not at this time.
Sighing deeply, Iris wrapped her arms around his waist, because she knew there was no point on keeping distance while mounting the horse together, she rested her head on his back.
From the side, Cane glanced at that, but said nothing, as he mounted his own horse and led this small party.
The Moon Dew Pack was only a day ride and after short break in the afternoon, which
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all of the men, except for the alpha, surrounded her to see the lizard breathing fire, they resumed their journey.
It was midnight when they arrived at Moon Dew pack’s territory, where they would stay the night and move to Aarleen city, in order to participate in the auction for the access to enter the black market.
Redmond went to find an inn for them to stay the night and once Iris cleaned herself up and laid on the bed, she fell asleep almost immediately.
She was so tired and was in so much pain from a whole day riding, thus she slept without trouble, but once again she dreamed about the five swords in that empty hall.
Iris opened her eyes sluggishly when she felt uncomfortable, as if she was suddenly being put in the spotlight and the intense stares that she received gave her a start.
She opened her eyes groggily only to find Cane was staring at her, she almost jumped in fear because of how shock she was, her eyes widened in apprehension, as she put the distance between them out of instinct.
Iris probably tried to act normal with him, but it didn’t mean the dreadful thing that happened between them could be forgotten so easily.
She used to bury all ‘bad memories‘ on the back of her mind, she pretended like that thing happened to someone else instead. In that way, she could prevent herself from the heartache.
She used this method when her father killed that stable boy, so did all the things that Masson had done to her. Some of that had been forgotten intentionally, but some of that, she buried on the back of her mind.
In that way,
she didn’t seek for a futile revenge or being in so much agony and despair
because of the grudge.
However, it didn’t mean it had disappeared completely… all of them were still there, in the back of her mind, lurking for a chance to emerge it ugly head.
“Wh- what are you doing here?” Iris was studying his expression. Did he have another outburst again like when they were in the library?
“I came to wake you up because we need to go now.” Cane could sense her distrustful eyes, thus he stood up from the edge of the bed and nodded at the small table beside the bed. “Eat now, or that thing will finish your breakfast.”
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“Hm?” Iris didn’t understand, as she followed his line of sight and found her little companion gobbled up her sandwiches. This little thing had finished one third of the portion. “Ah!”
Iris immediately scrambled to get the lizard away from her food. She didn’t know that this little thing could be gluttonous.
“We will leave in ten minutes.”
After that, Cane left her to prepare herself for their journey to the Aarleen city. It was only four hours trip from what Redmond said last night.
That’s why when they arrived in that city, it was still noon and they could walk around this place to see a few things, which was the first time for Iris.
She went with Redmond and Ethan, who kept bickering every second of it. Thankfully, she could ignore them just fine and indulged herself in her surroundings.
“Redmond, buy me this,” Iris said, as she tugged on his sleeves, she pointed at a book that was about the magic stone. She was really curious about this and the only way to know was by buying a book to get the information.
There was another way to learn about magic stone, which they needed to find a magic user and asked them for the explanation, but those magic users wouldn’t utter a single word if it was not to their own kind.
“How shameless of you to ask me for money, I don’t have money,” Redmond replied, grumbling because he finished it in the brothels and now, he had nothing left.