257: DAMN YOU, CANE! (3)

DAMN YOU, CANE! (3)

"You said it yourself that it is a great deal for me, so why should I refuse it?" Cane snickered disdainfully to see Lou's façade slipped for a brief second before he regained his composure and acted unbothered. 0

"Great!" Lou clapped his hands, as if he were very happy with the deal. "I will give you the detail about it later and have another discussion about it."

"Okay," Cane said lightly and stood up. "If there is nothing more, I will take my leave." He kept the conversation with Lou as short as possible and didn't waste a second to be there.

And what even worst was the part when Cane left even before Lou could give him a reply. The merchant was too shock and angry.

He had said what he wanted as the price of saving his mate and he wanted a permission to expand his business in his pack and Cane gave it, so there was no more that they needed to talk about, while for the detail, Cane could let someone handle it for him, they didn't need to meet in person, exchanging letter would be sufficient.

"Damn it! Damn it! Damn you, Cane!" Lou roared in frustration and anger. He had been a merchant for years and even made a deal with the king, but why he felt like he lost a business when he actually got what he wanted?!

This alpha irked him!

The only comforting thing that could slightly calm him down was the fact that he would have more chance to see Iris, after all, she was the luna of the Blue Moon pack.

"Master, you need to calm your anger…" Sabian was afraid Lou would exhaust himself again, after all, they were running out of magic stone in order to regain his vitality back after the portal was hardly able to be closed.

"Scram!"

Facing with Lou's wrath, Sabian scurried away. He took all the servants and guards with him.

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"Alpha?" Hanna was surprised to see Cane when she came over to bring Iris's dinner.

Since they came to the palace, Iris preferred to have her meal brought to her chamber, because the dining hall was overwhelmed her, as there were so many people there and none of them, she was comfortable with and most of them, she didn't even know personally.

"She will have dinner with me," Cane replied lightly, in which Hanna nodded respectfully and then retreated.

Cane then opened the door and found Iris was sitting near the window with a book in her hand. She was reading something, most likely a book about all the pack in this continent, she liked that topic recently and he noticed that.

"Hanna?" Iris's eyes lit up when she felt someone entered the room, because it was time for dinner and she was hungry.

The ceremony for her and Cane probably would be postponed, because the situation right now was still not stable yet.

However, she was surprised to see it was actually Cane that came over. This was the first time they met after what happened.

"Oh, alpha…" Iris immediately stood up and closed the book. It was not usual for him to come to see her in this hour, unless he needed something.

"Put on your warm clothes, have dinner with me." Cane sat down on the sofa and closed his eyes. He felt so tired.

Iris immediately went to her wardrobe and put on warm clothes and cloak, it was so cold! And it had been snowed since yesterday.

"I am ready," Iris said, as she nudged Cane's arm to get his attention.

The alpha opened his eyes and then stood up, he took her hand and both of them walked out of the bedroom toward the dining hall.

Iris didn't know since when it actually happened, but Cane developed this habit to take her hand or put his arm around her waist like he did right now whenever they went out together and slowed down his pace, so she wouldn't run after him. She knew it was not his normal pace, because those shifters tended to walk faster.

Cane also didn't mind if she snuggled closer to him whenever it was too cold for her, since his body was so warm.

Iris would look at his expression when she came closer, afraid he would be uncomfortable, but when he didn't show any reaction, she would nestle contently beside him.

The dinner went uneventful. The king was too busy and had his dinner in his bedroom.

While Cane chatted with the king's righthand men, as he kept placing more and more food to his mate's plate, Iris was chatting with Laluna reluctantly, as the princess kept secretively glancing at Cane.

Laluna was not the only woman that paid close attention to her mate and Nala did the same thing from across the room, since she sat down in the second long table, this irritated Iris. It rubbed her in the wrong way.

Therefore, she looked a little bit cheerful when they finally finished with dinner and walked back to their bedroom, as Iris left a promise that she would have an evening tea with Laluna two days from now.

She accepted that reluctantly out of politeness, but made sure Cane was not available at that time, because she read his conversation with the other righthand men that they would have another meeting with the king around that time.

"This is not the way to our bedroom," Iris said, finally noticed it was different path. She squeezed Cane's hand that held hers. "Do you want to go somewhere?" She remembered how they went out of the palace sneakily.

"Only to the garden," Cane replied. "What?" he asked when he saw a furrow between her brows.

"Cold." There was no brazier in the garden and it was snowing.

Cane let go of his hand, but he wrapped her inside his cloak, keeping her warm. "Walk with me?"

"Okay," Iris replied without a second thought.

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