496: THE EXPLANATION

THE EXPLANATION

Ethan grimaced when he came closer to the door, because the last time he was here, the strong smell of sex hit him so hard. He didn't want to walk into such situation again. 

Therefore, he sighed in relief when the air was so fresh and delightful. 

"I think she is not going to do it with the lycan even though they shared the same body…" Ethan mumbled to himself, since he knew how eager the lycan was to reproduce with her. 

The gamma leaned his back against the wall, while waiting for Iris to come out. He tried to calm his mind, but it was so hard to do so when he knew this was only the beginning. 

From the information he got from Haco, the king was dead along with his four hundred royal warriors, Sir Elijah and also… alpha Dristan. Koda must have not heard about it, because if he had, he would have raised hell by now. 

"I thought after I am free from the slavery, I can get drunk, until my head exploded," Ethan sighed. He would have never thought, he would get drunk from the trouble that came to them without break. 

"Why do you want to get your head exploded?" Iris asked, she heard that when she opened the door and found Ethan was deep in his thought, as he didn't realize her presence, until she spoke. 

The gamma startled, but then he gave her his wolfish grin. "I want to know how it feels to get your head exploded." There were so many deaths today, but Ethan still managed to smile a lot. It was not that he didn't feel anything, but people coped up with grief differently. 

Iris frowned when she heard that. She didn't like the way he said the word lightly, it gave her a bad omen. "Don't say something like that again," Iris scolded him. She was so exhausted mentally and physically, she didn't need Ethan to add more into her misery with his reckless words. 

"Okay," Ethan agreed readily, scared to see the way Iris glared at him. He didn't know there would be a day, she would scare someone else. It seemed, Cane's personality had rubbed her in the wrong way. "Why are you asking to talk in private with the four warriors?"

"They know about the lycan and I am not sure how to approach this matter," Iris said, she then proceeded to tell him briefly about what happened in the Goffa mountain, but she left unnecessary detail that Ethan didn't need to know yet, such as her dream and her newly found power. She focused her story on the lycan and how the four warriors looked so blown away with the fact that their alpha was actually the cursed creature. 

On the other hand, Ethan listened to her carefully. He already guessed it when he saw Cane's red eyes. 

"I don't know how to talk with them, especially Oliver," Iris was being honest with Ethan. She felt Oliver had been trying to attack her and she could feel his disliked toward her. 

"Don't worry, I am going to talk with them." Ethan understood Iris's position

Actually, there was not only four warriors, but there was Chrystal too, alpha Dristan's mistress, she was there and witnessed everything when Cane shifted into his lycan form. 

However, she currently was not conscious. It would be a tricky conversation with Chrystal because she was not part of the Howling Wolf pack, she didn't have the same loyalty like those warriors. What if she freaked out and refused to cooperate? What should they do with her then?

Cane would have killed her to shut her up, but Iris felt uncomfortable with the idea, after all, she just escaped from alpha Gill's tyranny and was subjected under alpha Dristan's cruel treatment, but then, after the two alphas died, she was going to be killed just because she knew something that she shouldn't?

Iris would talk with her personally later when she had regained her consciousness. 

"Ethan, can you ask someone to look after Chrystal? Don't allow anyone to talk with her before I did and tell me once she is conscious."

"Who is Chrystal? Ah! The new mistress of alpha Dristan…" Ethan didn't pay close attention to that pitiful girl, but he felt bad for the way alpha Dristan treated her. Good thing the alpha was dead. "Will do." He then gave an order to the first warrior they met on their way to the alpha's study room. 

Once they arrived at Cane's study room, the four warriors immediately stood up and greeted Iris and Ethan politely, they looked a little bit better after filling their stomach and rested. 

Because the four of them went immediately to the front desk, where the alpha used to sit down and give them an order out of instinct, thus Iris went to Cane's chair and sit down there, while Ethan stood on her right side. Everything moved so naturally, as they assumed their position. 

This was how it went when it was Cane, but the same thing happened when it was with Iris. Probably, their minds were too tired to think too much of the situation. 

Meanwhile, Iris assumed Cane's chair because that was the perfect spot to see the four warriors, who were standing in front of the table, more so, she was so tired to stand up for long. 

Ethan then started the explanation, he didn't beat around the bush. "First thing, let me tell you why alpha Cane affiliated with the lycan…"

The gamma spoke to them and answer their question for more than an hour, the situation was heated at some point, but Ethan managed to calm them down. 

They were most likely angry because their alpha sacrificed himself that way and Oliver slipped a hurtful word, while glancing at Iris. 

"The alpha will not need to do that if a certain dead alpha can keep his greed for himself."

But, Ethan shut him down and Oliver clamped his mouth. "And then, what are you going to do now? Wallowing for something that we can't change instead of facing the problem right before our eyes? Do something better and stop this hatred campaign, don't you think this is getting old? He is dead and now we have living enemies that you can hate as much as you like." 

Damn lady Cyan! She provoked and instilled so much hatred to the warrior only within a night the royal warrior stayed in their place. She really knew how to mess up with someone's mind. 

After that, the conversation lasted for another hour before all of them left with a mixed feeling.  2

"Do you think they will loyal to Cane and will not disclose the secret?" Iris asked, her voice was akin to a whisper. 

"They will." Ethan had a high hope for their loyalty and Iris simply nodded, as she trusted his judgment. 

"Have Grace seen Joel?"

"Yes, she is with him right now."

Iris nodded. She would visit him later. "Can you call Amee over? I want to discuss about the funeral for the fallen warrior and tell Jace to see me once he returned."

"Iris."

"Hm?"

"I don't know if you notice this or not, but you handle the pack and yourself really well, even without Cane."

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