506: AROUSED

AROUSED

"Cane, what is your next step?" Iris asked, she didn't want to talk about her father, thus she changed the topic. It felt so nice to cuddle with Cane, while listening to his voice, as he patted her head. She didn't want to ruin this mood by bringing up the topic of her father. 

"I am still thinking about that, there is nothing set yet." Cane caressed her earlobe and Iris immediately swatted his hand away without even thinking. Everything had crumbled. All of his plan, all of his schemes, all the fabrication that he made, everything was blown away because he failed to see Cyan's move. 

He must start from the scratch now. The thought of it gave him a headache, not to mention he only got three hours of sleep since yesterday and a few hours from now, the sun would set and the funeral would begin. 

"Cane, do you think the sorcerer, who lived inside the hut in the Riverside pack, has anything to do with lady Cyan?" Iris asked after she contemplated about it. "Do you think both of them related to each other?"

Cane didn't give respond to that, as he tried to consider her suggestion. 

Iris then tilted her head to see his serious expression. "What about the newly appointed head of royal sorcerer? Do you think the timing is a little bit suspicious?" Haco said the hut had been abandoned not so long, probably only a few weeks before they discovered it. "If the head of royal warrior was appointed by the king and the king was actually controlled by lady Cyan, don't you think there is a possibility for that?"

Cane stared at Iris for a long time, but he said nothing, until she felt self conscious and started to pull her hair anxiously, she lowered her head. 

"I know, that sounded so ridiculous. I read too much into it," Iris said sheepishly. How could she think she knew more than Cane? When he was the mastermind of the whole plans. She had witnessed it herself how Cane schemed against his opponent and she would never reach to his level of thinking. 

She still remembered how he solved the problem with Koda yesterday. 

However, Cane chuckled instead. "You made a great point, Iris."

"I did?" Iris lifted her head when she heard his light voice and his chuckle. She felt like she could hear it all day. He was so smitten by the sound of it. 

"Yes." Cane kissed her lips lightly and then her knuckles. "I missed that point."

"Really?" Iris widened her eyes. She had never thought, Cane would miss something. "This is unbelievable, for someone as observant as you to miss something."

"I am not invincible, Iris. I have told you long time ago, there must be time where my plan didn't go the way I wanted it. There is no a perfect plan, all you can do is to anticipate the worst and how to counter it. The schemes that I planned, have so many unpredictable variables, where I can't control each of it."

Iris listened to him attentively, she felt the more she listened to it, the more she got a glimpse of how Cane's mind actually worked and this was fascinating. 

"Thank you for pointing it out." Cane gave her a kiss on the tip of her nose and both of her eyes. "But, why you are aroused?"

Iris's face fell and her body stiffened. "What? No! I am not!" The more she denial it, the more her face turned red and she wanted to scurry away from him, but Cane held her firmly. 

"Now, we need to talk about this matter."

"I don't want to talk about this!" Iris screeched, she felt so embarrassed and trapped. She was not aroused, okay? She only felt a little bit… excited to realize this brilliant man was hers. 

"Iris." Iris closed her eyes, but then she realized, she didn't need to read other people's lips again to know what they were saying. Therefore, Cane continued talking. 

"It's normal, there is nothing to be ashamed of. I am glad that you are attracted to me."

Iris opened her eyes, she felt like she wanted the ground split and swallowed her whole, but when she looked into Cane's black eyes, he didn't make fun of this situation, neither he teased her. He talked as if this was a normal conversation and this made Iris's embarrassment subsided. 

"But, we need to ask Grace to do something about it," Cane said. "We don't want other people to know whenever you feel this way."

Iris couldn't decide, which one was worst, but it seemed, letting one people knew about this problem, would be better than dozens of people…

"I feel the same way about you too." 

His statement made Iris visibly relieved. "People will know whenever you are aroused?"

"No."

Iris frowned. "Why? It's not fair."

Cane kissed her lips and nibbled a little bit before he answered her curiosity. "Because it's in our nature to mask it, just like how the shifter shifted into their beast or the magic user used their magic."

"It's not fair…" Iris repeated the same thing. 

"Grace will handle it."1

Unexpectedly, this embarrassing conversation didn't go so bad. In fact, she felt a little bit closer to him, as they could talk about this matter without feeling weird. 

"Okay, but not now, Grace must be very busy with the injured warriors."

Cane didn't argue with that, but after a while, he asked casually. "But, what make you aroused?" He remembered, he didn't do anything, actually he was explaining to her about how a scheme could work when her ripe scent hit him. 

"Cane!" Iris bit his arm, as he laughed. 

They were fooling around and teasing each other, but they knew not to go for it, since both of them were too exhausted, but it lightened their gloomy mood a little bit. 

"Cane, you really need to talk about your plan to Ethan and Jace, receiving another point of view will not do any harm, right?" Iris was tracing her fingers against his lips, as Cane hovered above her, giving kisses on her cheeks and neck ever now and then, as they talked. "Both of them looked like they were going to cry whenever Lu took over and they were clueless about what to do."

Iris brought this topic up again, she had mentioned about it before, but it had become a habit for Cane and just like what people said; old habit died hard. 

"I will try." Cane kissed her collarbones and bit her lightly. 

"Cane, there is this young woman, who was there when you shifted into the lycan…" Iris bit her lip, Cane's kisses distracted her line of thought. "What do you want to do with her?"

Cane stopped kissing her and lifted his head to look at Iris's red face. "You know we don't have any other choice," he said darkly. "She is not part of our pack. Her loyalty is not in me."

Iris had expected this answer, but she still wanted to try. "Can you let me talk to her first? She didn't commit any crime, she was only in the wrong place and time."

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