556 PROVING THEIR POINT

If the Red Cla w pack managed to support the baby to his given position, Koda must be the regent now until the baby came to age to take over the throne.

"This whole situation is so fishy, Abby." Liam grewfrustrated. In the public, there was no way he would voice out his displeasure with her decision, as her protector, his only duty was to serve, obey and protect her.

However, thing between them was more than that. He cared deeply for her, not only because of a duty as the Holy knight. 1

"I know. That's why we need to know more aboutit. The activity of black magic becomes more and more active nowadays, you know that as well, Liam. This is my duty to eradicate it."

"Abby..."

"I don't want to hear any more protest, Liam.Your duty is to protect me, not to advise me,"Abby said sternly and it seemed, her words had hurt the knight, as his body stiffened and his voice became a little bit cold.

"Apologize for overstepping my station, Serafim. Iwill take my leave. Have a good rest."

After saying that, Liam turned around and Abby felt the pan g in her heart. She hated it when shehurt him and not listened to him.

They should be in the capital city, but because of the recent power struggle, it was hard to say whether this new king was a safe option, even though prince Alan was the person, who had informed them about the activity of the black magic in this continent, but rumor said it he got involved with black magic too.

More so, alpha Dax had disclosed about lady Cyan and how she was the dark witch, who had killed the previous king and Alan was her son.

Abby curled her body, hugging herself while thinking about the meeting with alpha Colter tomorrow. From the letter she received, there was something very important that needed to be discussed in person, that's why the alpha and a few of his people took the risk to cross the border to meet her in person.

Since the day of their attack, Cane had never left Iris's side, he sent Ethan to lead a few warriors to learn the situation in the Silver River pack and reported it back to him.

Though this was not efficient to do this and he used to inspect everything on his own, but he couldn't bring himself to go out, until Iris was in a good condition and he was sure she was out of danger.

It was not that Iris was in a life threateningcondition, since Grace herself said she only needed to rest, but in Cane's eyes she was. She looked so pale and lethargic, and most of the time, she would sleep without moving at all.

In his fear, Cane would put his finger under her nose and only could feel slightly relief when he could feel her warm breath, or he would place his palm over her chest and felt her heartbeat.

"You can control monster?" Cane asked on thefourth day when Iris looked a little bit better and she could hold a long conversation.

"I did it out of impulse." Iris bit her spoon andthought about that. "I think have done it before..."

She indeed had commanded the monsters to stop out of impulse. She felt like she had done this before and when she thought about it, she remembered, it was when she saved Ania when they were in the Blue Moon pack's mines and there was a monster attack.

"I didn't realize it at that time that I can makethem stop, but to think about it again... I think I did it when there was a monster attack in the palace too when Lou saved me."

Cane scoffe d derisively when he heard that. If Lu refused to admit he was the one, who had summoned the monsters in the palace, even though the lycan said proudly that he was the one who escalated the situation, there was no other people, who could do that aside from Lou,especially when the merchant was actually a magic user too.

And when Cane thought what kind of benefit the merchant would get, he actually got a lot of benefit from the incident.

However, Cane was not in the mood to bring him in this conversation.

"How can you do it?" Cane emphasized the maintopic.

"I don't know, it just happened. Oh, I think youcouldn't do it because those monsters were controlled by black magic. That's why you feel the obstruction."

"I guessed as much." Cane nodded.

Since Iris could purify the black magic, so it was possible for her to take the control back. But, until now they were still not sure, whether she purified the black magic or absorbed it...

Iris glanced at Cane, she put her spoon down, feeling so full. She ate too much, but he always said she had not eaten enough. Well, compared to him, the amount of food she ate was insignificant. "I think it will be the same feeling when you control the monster."

"I don't think so." In Cane's case, he had exertedhis effort to take control of the lycan's ability, but when Iris did that, she did it effortlessly.

However, when Cane tried to communicate withthe lycan. This cursed creature actually shut him off, he refused to talk, but Cane could feel his anger to see Iris was hurt.

"Do you think the ability of the first Serafim andthe lycan to control the monster is somehow related?"

"Probably," Cane replied. He forked a piece ofmeat and placed it on her lips for her to eat it. "I am glad you have this ability, so no monster will hurt you in the future." Cane's eyes then filled with amusement when he remembered another thing. "And no shifter will be a bother for you if they still want to live." 1

Iris chuckled."You make it sounds like I am a badass!"

"Finish your meal," Cane said, he caressed herhead. "I will leave for a while this afternoon." He had been by Iris's side for days and the matter in the Silver River pack fell so behind, it couldn't be delayed anymore.

"I am full," Iris whimpered."You have not yet toldme about how the situation in the Silver River pack."

They had arrived for almost a week, but because of Iris's condition, she needed to recover and rest inside the bedroom, thus aside from this room, she had never been anywhere and heard anything about the matter at hand, since Cane refused to talk about it with an excuse sheneeded to rest.

"Later." Cane leaned over and kissed her lips, hismethod to distract her and make her stopped talking. Who said her mate was timid? She could be so bold whenever they were alone...

Because Cane refused to tell her about what was going on, Iris had a way to get a little bit information about what the situation they were in at this moment.

However, Aliana seemed to focus on different matter.

"Luna! You can control monster?!" Aliana lookedexcited when she came to bring her lunch. All this time, no one was allowed to enter the room, aside from Grace, as she needed to check her condition from time to time. The food would be delivered to the door and the alpha would get it.

Therefore, this was the first time for Aliana to talk and meet with Iris in person after the incident on their way to the Silver River pack.

"How can you do that?! That's awesome! All thewarriors have been talking about it!" Aliana looked so enthusiastic, as she pulled a chair and sat down, eager to listen more about Iris's explanation. "When did you realize you can control the monster?"

"It's not that I can control them as I like..." Irisgrimaced.

However, Aliana waved her hands impatiently. "A handful warrior said it's only a great timing and the monsters were only shocked when you screamed for them to stop, thus they didn't move, but that's crap is nonsense. All of us witnessed how the monsters stopped moving when you commanded them to do so."

Those warriors were the warriors, who still held grudge against Iris. It was well known that the provocation from the royal warriors when they stayed in their pack had affected them so much, it brought back unpleasant memories and incited their hatred toward her again.

"Eron and Dyne have been bragged about it andwill tell anyone, who wants to listen about how awesome to have you as the luna." Aliana grinned when she saw how Iris's expression turned into horror when she heard that. She didn't like to be the center of the attention and the two warriors simply dragged her to be one.

"I think I need to have a talk with the two ofthem..." Iris muttered under her breath, she had been with the two of them long enough to know that they could go overboard with their dramatic story.

Aliana chuckled when she heard that. "Don't be too harsh on them, luna. They are so happy to prove it to everyone that you deserve your title and how good you are."Of course, Dyne and Eron were well aware about the hatred that was directed toward Iris from their fellow warriors and they did this to prove their point of how wrong it was for them to hate her.