212: THE ALPHA PLAYED IGNORANCE

THE ALPHA PLAYED IGNORANCE

King Aeon had purposefully neglected the issue with the dark magic, though the rumor about it had spread across the continent and this sent a wave of fear among the people, he simply pretended that it didn't happen, which was expected of him, since Cane had his own suspicion that the king was behind it all. 2

There was no way alpha Gill would conduct such an act boldly and fostered a dark sorcerer without a certain goal.

Alpha Gill's aspiration was not that high and he didn't have any ambition that included the dark magic and put his whole pack into a jeopardy to engage in such taboo thing.

However, it was different matter completely if you put the king into consideration.

"My king, you are wise and fair. I have punished the people that touched the dark magic, isn't it only right to call alpha Gill from Riverside into question about the activity of the dark magic in his pack? I heard many rumors about it on my way here."

He mentioned the execution of Aria callously, as if it was nothing. He looked straight into the king's eyes and saw how those eyes flickered with the mention of the people that he had punished.

His guess was right after all, the spy that he planted in his pack had sent a word about it to him. The only thing that was left was to figure out who that person.

This vexed Cane to no end to foster an enemy spy and he didn't have enough time to look into the matter thoroughly, because he needed to be away from the pack often.

"May the king hear the voice of his subjects and uphold justice," Cane spoke smoothly, outsider might think he was very concern about the furor of the public upon hearing about the black magic, but the truth was; he was going to downplay the matter about Ethan's offense against the crown prince.

However, Cane didn't stop there. He was going a little bit overboard now, because the king was still able to stay calm. He wanted to make a ripple on the calm water.

After all, the alpha came here not to hand his gamma over, but to cause trouble for the king.

"If the rumor being left without any response from the king, I am afraid people from the Holy Kingdom will hear about it."

"Presumptuous!" King Aeon slammed his hand against the armrest again impatiently, as he stood up in anger.

Anything about the Holy Kingdom was a sour spot for the king, because he had tried to put boundaries against them for years. He kept them at arm length because they could interfere with his reign.

And the rumor about the black magic user in his continent could make them came and did an investigation, which only gave him a headache and trouble. More so, that was the last thing that he wanted; to have people from the Holy Kingdom dug deeper about the dark magic.

Cane knew about that. He waited all of this information to come to his hand to deal with the king the best way he could to get his gamma out of the death sentence, which most likely would hover above his head, knowing how the crown prince held a grudge so well.

"I just stated the fact my king, pardon me for my boldness, but I am very concern about the rumor that has been spreading around." Cane lowered his head and acted docile.

On the other hand, Lou watched everything unfolded, his eyes grew interested on Cane and he was curious what the end goal of the alpha, yet he didn't forget about the existence of Iris as well. Both alpha and luna piqued his curiosity now.

Hunkered down behind them, Ethan was very quiet as he listened to the exchange between the alpha and the king. He seemed to know what Cane was up to and his smile disappeared, he was no longer looked as carefree as before, as his whole demeanor became stout.

"You don't need to concern yourself about the state of this kingdom," King Aeon said begrudgingly. He looked so haughty, as he tried to regain his composure. "I summoned you here to question the act of your gamma!" the king countered Cane with the main reason he was here. He wanted to diffuse everyone's attention regarding the dark magic.

Enmity flashed in Cane's eyes for a few second, but when he raised his head again, it had gone, as his expression returned like his usual self; unable to read.

Beside the king, Alan smirked smugly, he had been waiting for this moment.

"An action to harm the royal family, can be counted as a treason!" King Aeon's voice boomed inside the main hall, he took the momentum to shift people's attention from the dark magic, because he knew his council would start to pestering him about this issue, now Cane had brought it up in front of them.

"I want his head on the spike!" Alan roared heatedly, as he stood up from his seat. "I almost died because of him!"

Iris became restless when she read what they said and glanced at Ethan behind her, but she couldn't gauge his expression, since he had his head bowed, the guard pressed his head down.

Meanwhile, Cane looked as calm as before, the accusation didn't ruffle him at all and for the first time in her life, Iris really wished that she could read his mind and what he was thinking to get Ethan out of this mess.

"May I know what my gamma had done wrong?" Cane asked innocently, as if he didn't understand why Ethan was being punished, despite he knew the whole story.

"You are still asking!?" Alan was furious now to see how Cane played ignorance and wasted everyone's time by that stupid question.

"I ask because I truly don't understand," Cane replied and this was the first time for him to acknowledge the existence of the crown prince.

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