PROVOCATION

Iris knew that this would happen soon, but to see the sight of Ethan right now, hurt her heart so bad, because the gamma didn't look like himself. Iris hated to see him like that. He was the most radiant person that she had ever met.

However right now, he was nothing, but a shell of himself.

Yet, thing only got worse when Alan demanded the gamma to kiss his feet, while crawling, begging for an apology from him.

[I am going to kill him! I will bring down as many people as I can! He deserves to die!] If there was one thing that Ethan regretted it throughout this whole ordeal, it was the fact that he didn't kill that crown prince and be done with it.

Alan must have thought about this method because he remembered what Gerald had done to the member of Howling pack in the past. The idea must have come from it and he knew very well how much they hated it to be humiliated.

Ethan literally let out a dangerous growl that made all the royal guards tensed up.

He could endure to be locked inside the room for days, despite his fear and cut off from any information about what was going on out there, he didn't mind to apologize for what he had done, though he didn't feel it, so the alpha wouldn't be implicated and got over with this problem soon.

However, to kiss Alan's foot and apologize to him, while crawling with both his arms and legs, that was too much. He would rather die and wreak havoc here rather than to be humiliated that way.

Ethan had been humiliated for years. Of course, no matter how many times, it was still demeaning and degrading. He didn't wish to go through that hopeless state again. He didn't want to go back to that period of time. There was no way he would do that.

A death sentence would be more honorable than this.

Yet, Cane repressed him. The alpha suppressed Ethan's beast down, so he had a great trouble to shift into his wolf form and brought hell upon this main hall. It would be great if he could kill the king as well, though it was almost impossible.

The royal family was nothing, but a swamp of nasty people gathered together. All of them knew that the king was behind their slavery for a decade, but now he acted righteous and this idiotic crown prince would only bring calamity for the kingdom, once he got the crown on his head.

Therefore, Ethan would do a favor for this realm to kill them all!

[Calm down.] Cane mind linked him. It was a great thing that he could recover the mind link between him and his gamma and beta, though they had to be so close for it to work.

[I am going to kill them all!] Despite that, Ethan couldn't shift and this anger him even more.

Knowing he couldn't talk sense to his gamma, Cane shifted his attention toward the king directly, he skipped the crown prince entirely, which pissed him off, because once again, he was being ignored by Cane.

"My king. He is my gamma. His status represents the pack." Cane's voice neither loud nor stern. He talked so calmly, which made all of them wondered how he could keep his composure even in the face of the king. "His apology comes from his misconduct, but the demeaning act that the crown prince demands, will mirror the whole pack. Did the crown prince mean to insult and degrade the whole Howling Wolf pack?"

"You twisted my word!" Alan hollered, he was fuming because once again Cane was playing with his words. "How I know he apologized sincerely, if he is not willing to show any effort?!" He turned around to face his father, feeling dissatisfied when no one spoke for him to stop Cane and the king was contemplating. "Father! This mutt is trying to manipulate you again!"

"Atrocious!" Cane roared. His voice boomed inside the main hall and this made Alan jumped a little bit out of surprised, because he didn't think the alpha would dare enough to raise his voice in the presence of the king. "Show your respect!"

Even Iris was startled to see how ferocious Cane was right now, the tension was so thick in this room, everyone's eyes was on her mate and she wondered how he could handle such intense attention from all the people.

Was it alright to snap like that?

Iris was worried the king would punish Cane instead.

"Wh- why should I show you respect!? You don't deserve it!" Alan felt humiliated to be reprimanded harshly in front of many important people. But, he couldn't hide his fear properly, as he stammered and this made all the people inside the hall showed their dissatisfaction toward the crown prince.

They couldn't understand why the king chose him to be the crown prince when he displayed how incompetent he was again and again.

Alan literally humiliated himself, but it was only him, who didn't see it that way.

"I am the alpha of the Howling Wolf pack and the Blue Moon pack," Cane said coldly, all of the people could feel the authority rolled in his voice. "I was born from the legitimate princess of the previous queen. The royal sister of the current king. I am part of the royal family."

Almost everyone had forgotten about this fact and even if they did remember about Cane's royal bloodline, they didn't pay close attention into it, because neither princess Crystal nor Cane had ever mentioned about it until now.

It was not a secret, but it was not something to talk about, knowing how sensitive that fact for king Aeon, since the current king was born from a mistress.

However, Cane brought that fact in front of everyone, reminded them about his bloodline, but in a way that made Alan was to be blamed for his outburst.

If Alan didn't provoke him, he wouldn't have said those things.