507: THE NIGHT OF THE FUNERAL

THE NIGHT OF THE FUNERAL

Iris felt very uncomfortable if they had to kill Chrystal for something that she couldn't control. She did not make any grave mistakes, it was only the timing that was not right. 

"Cane…" Iris tried. "Let me talk with her, okay?" She cupped his face and stared into his eyes. 

"Iris, you know the answer. I hate to break your heart, but this is not a negotiation." Cane kissed her palms to appease her, but he still could feel how tense she was with the decision. "You don't need to be there. Just forget about this matter, I will take care of it."

Iris knew what exactly Cane meant when he said he would take care of it. It didn't make her feel better at all. 

"Iris." Cane caressed her cheeks and stared into her eyes. He had warned her before that something like this could happen, but if in the past he could be assertive with her, Cane found himself softened up with her. He felt horrible to disappoint his mate. "We can't take the risk, especially when we are in this situation. The risk is too big to let her alive."

Iris bit her lip, she couldn't say that she didn't understand what they put at stake, but at the same time, she couldn't completely agree with this decision. 

Now, she truly realized, this wouldn't be the last she would be in this position, there would be many cases in the future like this and it was a common sense in this sick world to silence anyone that they couldn't trust when they knew so much. 

There was no agreement regarding this matter, but knowing this was something that needed to be done, they left this matter at that. 

"Tell me what happened with you when we were in the Goffa mountain. How come you can finally hear?" Cane tried to change the topic, since the previous one had been settled and he wouldn't change his decision related to that.

"Oh… I think I know the story between Lu and the first Serafim…"

And with that, Iris told Cane everything that she had witnessed when she lost her consciousness and how she thought, what lady Cyan had done with the dark magic, triggered something inside her. Not only her, but the lycan within Cane as well. 

They spent their time talking, there were a lot of discussion they needed to cover and even after spending hours, it was still simply not enough. 

This was also the first time for Cane to share his thought and have discussion, since he used to think and decide everything alone. 

The more they talked about the current situation, the more Cane realized how fascinated the way Iris was thinking, she approached the matter in different view that he had never thought before.

Woman indeed had different way of thinking and with this, he could figure out a little bit of lady Cyan's approach… 

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"Order from the alpha," Redmond said, he entered the luna's bedroom that Sofia occupied without even knocking first, which made her screeched, she was still shock because of the nearly death situation yesterday and had been having this cramp due to the stress of the situation. 

Therefore, Maria had been tending to her and nurse her, so she wouldn't harm the baby further. 

"Don't you know how to knock?!" Sofia screamed at the red hair guy, who looked so brazen and reckless, as he pulled a chair near her bed and crossed his arms, staring at her with those disturbing gaze. 

"Direct order from the alpha," Redmond repeated his words, completely ignoring Sofia's protest. "You need to clear this room and stay in a new house, outside of the pack house."

Sofia pressed her lips, she gritted her teeth, as she tried to hold back her tears. If it was before, she would have rejected the idea and screamed on the top of her lungs that this was the alpha's firstborn, but after that night, she was not sure what to believe. 

Redmond tilted his head, waiting for this woman to scream her head off, but it was so weird when it was so quiet. 

"Hello, did you hear what I say?" Redmond waved his hand, as if to get attention from Sofia, which made the pregnant woman glared at him. "Well, that's better…"

It was only an hour before the funeral for the fallen warrior, but Redmond didn't feel like to attend it, not only because of the fact that the dead bodies of the warriors from the Blue Moon pack would be left in the Goffa mountain and let the nature took care of them, that was what Jace said to soften the meaning behind it. 

Let the nature took care of them my ass, they were feeding them to the monsters. 

However, Redmond couldn't demand anything, neither he wanted to. There was no point for that. He realized the gravity of the situation, more so, they were already dead and he didn't want to create more fraction between himself and the warrior from the Howling Wolf pack, the feeling of walking on egg shells around them was pretty irritating for him. 

"Was that… really you, that night?" Sofia finally asked through her gritted teeth. 

"Yeah, it was me." Redmond tilted his head lazily. "Should we do it again to make you remember?"

"Bastard!" Sofia screamed, as she threw a pillow toward the warrior, but he simply swatted it away without any effort. "You make me pregnant with your baby!"

Redmond was offended, what's the matter with his offspring?

"You made yourself pregnant by not taking the medicine, woman. And the fact you came all the way here to frame him is pretty lame. You should know the alpha has a peculiar taste. He likes bright color hair."  0

Redmond was so good with his words, but not in a good sense, to push all the wrong buttons on someone. 

Sofia knew what the meaning behind his words, but if he thought, he could hurt her with such lame sarcasm, he must be dreaming. The life of being the mistress of alpha Gallot, who had to compete with the other mistresses, had made sarcasm and insult became their own language. 

Those women probably were even more fluent of talking shit and wrapped it into beautiful words more than those alphas. 

Instead of screeching like before, Sofia gave Redmond a mocking smile. "Oh, that's why, even though you came from the Blue Moon pack, he keeps you around, because you are his type?" She nodded at Redmond red hair. 

Redmond's expression turned dark when he heard that. It was so repulsive for one to even think about it. He wanted to gag and it must be seen on his face, because Sofia laughed at him. Her heart was a little bit lighter after she got back at him. 

On the other hand, even though Redmond was good at making a snide comment, but his patient was only the length of tea spoon. 

Redmond immediately stood up and started to pack her things. 

"What are you doing?!" Sofia was panic when she watched what Redmond intended to do. 

"What? Didn't you hear me? This is a direct order from the alpha, he wanted you to clear this room and move away from the pack house."

"But… but, he said… he offered me a deal!" Sofia became anxious, she got off the bed and approached Redmond to stop him. "Stop this!" 

Redmond turned around and smirked at her. "He never said that he will let you occupy the room until the end."

"But, what about his plan? What about the plan to get back on alpha Gallot?! He wants to ruin his plan? What if people are thinking he denied the child and people knows the child is not his before the right time?" Sofia didn't want to believe the child in her stomach was not the alpha's, but there was something in Cane's voice that made her believed that once she was calm enough to think the matter through. 

After all, she needed to survive, just in case she made a wrong decision and the baby was indeed not his. 

"The situation has changed, the plan has changed as well." Truthfully, Redmond didn't know what was in Cane's mind, he was having a hard time to keep up with the way he was thinking. All of sudden, he was summoned a few hours ago to prepare a small house outside of the pack house for Sofia and was ordered to help her to move out from the luna's bedroom. 

Iris didn't seem to know about this, since she was still asleep at the time, he received the order, but even so, Redmond was pleased for Cane to finally take some action for this woman, so people could stop talking about Iris and cornering her with argumentation that compared she and Sofia that the former had not yet pregnant. 

"What change? I don't want to move!"

"Don't worry, your little, old servant will come with you as well. She must have been told about this plan by now."

Redmond then ignored the way Sofia cursed at him and found the joy to make her even angrier than this, as he kept tidying up her belongings, while singing off tune song. 

Meanwhile, currently Cane was helping Iris to get on her dress, both of them would wear the color of their pack and led the funeral. 

Iris was wearing a simple black dress, all of them would bring a candle and all the source of light would be put off. 

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