396: YOU TRICKED ME!

YOU TRICKED ME!

Iris frowned. Cane seemed in a good mood. He held her hand, as they walked toward the tunnel and looked around this vast area. He waited for her to answer the question. 

Meanwhile, people stared at them secretly, as the sight of Iris and Cane walking together peacefully was a rare sight to see. Woman had never been in this area, even if they were, they were sent to fulfil the desire of the wardens. 

Or recently, they were forced to impregnant as many women as possible, as the alpha wanted to have a lot of members of the pack. Alpha Gill thought about the quantity of his pack because there were a lot of men died during this project, but he failed to think of the quality of their lives, since there was no life more important than his and now, he lost it. 

"You are planning to continue this project?" Iris mumbled to herself, contemplated the reason why Cane wanted to continue the tunnel that had made a lot of men met their demise. "Why?" Iris asked herself. She looked around and then to the tunnel. 

From where she was standing, the warriors put down the boxes they had been carrying and like usual, they distributed food for them, but this time, they brought clean clothes as well, as the men here were only wearing ragged clothes and pants. 

There was commotion when they tried to get their hands on clean clothes and food, but Sir Elijah controlled the situation well. He ordered his men to help as well. 

Hanna also helped, but Will took something from her hand and talked to her, gesturing for her to stay behind, yet Hanna looked mad and glared at him, as she snatched back the box from Will's hand and walked away. 

And here, Iris couldn't figure out what Cane was planning with this tunnel. "I don't know." Iris shook her head. 

"If you can answer this, I will grant you one wish."

"It's unfair," Iris immediately rejected it. "No one knows what is in your mind, not even your beta and your gamma."

"Aren't you my luna?"

"But, it doesn't mean I know more about you." Iris started to talk back to Cane. If it was in the past, she would lower her head timidly and wouldn't dare to retort. "You never talk anything about yourself."

"Fine." Cane nodded. "I will give you a clue, but if you still can't answer this, you will grant me one wish."

Iris's brows furrowed deeply. "Why I feel like I will go straight to your trap?"

Hearing that, Cane couldn't help, but laughed, which surprised all of the people there, since they only saw his serious and vicious side. After Cane executed the five alphas and put their head on the spikes, they knew him as a coldblooded alpha, but no one ever thought they would witness this side of this cruel alpha. 

"Do I need to trap you?" Cane asked, oblivious with the attention on them right now, but Iris seemed aware of it and started to feel uncomfortable to be in the center of attention. 

"No. I have trapped with you for the rest of our lives," she mumbled. 

She didn't mean it in a bad way, but that was how it sounded in Cane's ears, as he pinched her chin and lifted her head to meet his eyes. "You don't like it."

All of sudden, the playful atmosphere between them turned serious, as Cane's laugh vanished and his eyes stared at his mate sharply. 

"I never said that. Let's be trapped and rotten together, as long as I am with you, I am willing," Iris said it playfully, but there was a trace of determination in her tone. "I promise to be with you, let's see the end of it together." She promised him and also his late mate when they went to see his family and she intended to keep it. 

Cane lowered his hand and all of the spectators sighed, they didn't realize they were holding their breath, thinking Cane would turn violence because Iris had talked something wrong, which incur his anger. It was easy to assume that way when they were raised with such idea in their mind. 

"So, what the clue?" Iris grabbed his hand instead and Cane intertwined their fingers together, as they continued walking, leaving those people, who looked at them weirdly behind. 

"The distribution of food of this pack comes from the Chrystal Moon pack."

Iris nodded. "Yes, I read about that, because Chrystal Moon pack is the only pack with harbor in the south kingdom, before winter they amass grain and dry meat from the merchant, as they brought the commodity with ship from Karam continent."

Iris stopped talking and blinked her eyes, as if something crossed her mind, but then… 

Cane smiled at her explanation and could see she was so close to realize the answer of it, but when she stopped talking and tried to rearrange her theory in her mind, he leaned over and kissed her cheek. "Continue," he whispered, which only his warm breath that Iris could notice. 

Iris blushed when Cane suddenly kissed her. He had been very weird lately with his sudden display of affection in front of so many people. 

"And… mmh…" Iris forgot what she was going to say! Ugh! What was that?! "That's… uhm…"

"I want the harbor. It will help during the next winter, so there is no need for us to go to the black market again." It would save them a lot of effort, time and energy if they could build the tunnel and he got the deal between the Chrystal Moon pack and the merchant from the Karam continent. 

"Ah! I am going to say that!" Iris was fuming. She stopped walking, glaring at Cane, but the alpha was as calm as ever. "You tricked me!"

"In what way I tricked you?"0

"You…" Iris stopped herself. "…Kissed me." Her voice trailed off. 

"Hm?" Cane tilted his head. "How can you count that as a trick?"

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