533: KELLAN WILL BE A GOOD CHOICE

KELLAN WILL BE A GOOD CHOICE

"Hanna, I am not here to look for a fight…" Kaz said in small voice, he sighed deeply, he rushed here to find the alpha immediately before he could take a proper meal, this was because of how important he needed to thank the alpha. 

But, the way Cane reacted and what he said completely threw him off guard, he didn't think the alpha would say it was actually the luna, who asked for him to be released. But, why? After what he had done, it didn't make sense if she was the one, who instigated to release him from the dungeon. 

Didn't she want a revenge after how he treated her? Didn't she feel bitter toward him and the other for favoring the woman, who was pregnant with the alpha's firstborn, even though she was the luna? It didn't make sense in Kaz's mind. 

"I will never forgive you for what you have said and what you have done to her, Kaz." Hanna looked very furious, while the old man could only lower his head. Initially, he respected Hanna more than he did to Iris, because before they learned the truth about Iris's involvement, the member of the Howling Wolf pack, would see Hanna as their savior, while Iris was Gerald's daughter. 

And for some reason, that belief engraved so deep, it was hard to be changed. It touched their subconscious level, where they didn't even think about it, as if that was the hard truth for them and it was true for Kaz, Maria and some more pack member. 

"All of that was a misunderstanding," Kaz said tiredly. With the alpha's rejection to talk to him, he felt someone just stabbed his heart. It was so painful to see he lost the alpha's trust and favor. "Your missy was too sensitive…"

Kaz immediately stopped himself when he heard the way Hanna growled dangerously. She balled her fists and looked like she was going to attack Kaz right there and then, apparently his skull was very thick, so he was not able to accept the reality. He couldn't even hear properly what the alpha said. It was Iris, who had asked him to be released and here he was, having not even an ounce the feeling of gratefulness for her missy. 

Not to mention, he tried to play down how hurt Iris's feeling was…

If she was allowed, Hanna really wanted to claw Kaz's head and give him a lesson or two, she was sure, she could take down this old steward by herself. 

However, Kaz noticed her wrath and immediately walked away from her. He said nothing and left the training ground. 

Hanna was not as kind as he thought she was. 

"Hanna," Cane called her over. He saw the altercation between the two and how tensed his mate's personal maid was. 

But, because they were too far and they talked in low voice, he couldn't hear the conversation between the two of them. 

Hanna lifted her head and saw the alpha, she immediately changed her expression and walked over, but it was hard to hide her feeling, not to mention it was almost impossible for her to hide anything before Cane's observation. 

Once Hanna stood in front of the alpha, she tried to avoid his eyes, but she obviously couldn't avoid his question. 

"Why are you so angry?" Cane asked. He stared at Hanna closely and saw the maid was trying to hold back her temper in his presence, but Will put his arm around her shoulder to make her relax a little bit. The warrior was still very quiet.

"I am sorry, alpha. I didn't mean to talk harshly to Kaz," Hanna said. 

"Why are you so angry?" Cane simply repeated his question. He couldn't care less whether she talked harshly to Kaz or not. 

"It's… nothing."

"Hanna, I will not repeat the same question," Cane said sternly this time, his voice demanded an answer from her and Will's body stiffened, as he slightly stood in front of Hanna out of instinct to put himself between her and the alpha. 

Hanna finally lifted her head, sensing the situation went south because she didn't give the alpha a proper answer, thus with small voice she told Cane her grievances. 

"I am sorry, alpha, but I don't like the steward. I don't like the way Kaz talked to my missy when he informed her that Sofia occupied the luna's bedroom because she is pregnant with… your child." Hanna bit her lip, but then she continued. "I don't like it when Kaz talked to my missy as if she was stupid just because she couldn't hear."

"Elaborate that." Cane's eyes turned very cold and Will literally put himself between the alpha and his woman now. 

Hanna then proceeded to tell Cane the way Kaz talked to her missy that night when they just arrived in the pack house and how he talked down on Iris, thinking she couldn't hear him, he talked in a very degrading way. 

Hanna didn't try to make the old steward looked so bad in front of the alpha, but this was how she felt and she had been holding this grudge ever since then, only because everything that happened, she forgot about it a little bit. 

However, when she saw Kaz again, the anger resurfaced and she felt so wronged for Iris's behalf. 

"I don't like the way he talked to her as if she was a child! She couldn't hear, but it didn't mean she was retarded!" Hanna ended up crying, not because of the sadness, but because of how angry she was. 

Some time, when you were too angry and agitated, you couldn't help, but cry. 

On the other hand, Cane remembered what Iris said in one of her outbursts that day when she unintentionally hurt his wolf spirit. The first time he learned how hurt she was…

'Why they don't feel sorry to trat me badly in the first place?!'

'Just because I am deaf, doesn't mean I don't know what they are talking about! I am not stupid! I am not an idiot! Why they degraded me and thought I am not smart enough?! I know what they are talking, I am not stupid! I am a runt, but I am not stupid!'2

Cane probably didn't understand why Iris came up with those words and didn't realize the depth of the words, he thought she only said whatever in her mind to vent out her anger, but now it did make sense. 

Added that to the fact Iris kept calling herself as a stupid person when she messed up with the alcohol. It gave a sharp pang in Cane's chest when he realized how deep the pain Iris felt. 

You might not realize how much your words hurt someone until that person changed because of it. 

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Iris froze in her place, she wanted to run away and avoid this person, but she couldn't move her body. She felt like she was being in one of her horrendous nightmares when she heard the words he used. It was such familiar words that she grew up with. 

"Come here, you little slut!" Mason screamed, his voice filled with demand, as she called Iris over. He knew it was her, though it had been a long time, since the last time she saw her, but he knew it was his dear little sister. "COME HERE!"

Iris startled and her body moved on its own out of instinct. She might forget about him, until she heard his voice, but her body didn't. Her mind told her to leave, but her body obliged to his demand, like she used to do in almost her whole life. 

"There you are… the little slut…" Mason said in his hoarse voice, as he coughed hardly before he cackled in delight to see Iris in front of him. "You look well, Iris. Do you miss your older brother?"

Iris couldn't utter a single word, as her breathing quickened. 

Her logic told her that Mason wouldn't be able to do anything to her in his current state, but there was something more powerful than her logic that controlled her right now. Trauma. Her mind froze. 

"Why don't you come closer so your brother can see you clearly?" Mason said between his cackled and cough. He dragged his body, while both of his legs looked very awkward, as if they were twisted into the wrong direction, one of his arms bent into a weird angle too, while half of his teeth had gone. 

He didn't look like the sophisticated Mason in the past, the man, who looked after himself so well, almost like he was a maiden instead. 

But right now, a beggar would look even better than him. He was unrecognizable, but still, Iris knew it was him. 

"Why don't you come closer, so your brother can see you?" Mason was holding onto the bar, pressed his face as close as he could, so he was able to get a better look of Iris. "You look so beautiful now. How long it has been since the last time I saw you? Have you given birth to that mutt's child?"

However, Mason then laughed so hard when he said that, as if he was saying the funniest joke ever. 

"How he could impregnant you when we ruined his private?! He must have shared you with someone to get you pregnant!" he laughed hysterically. "Ah! forgot! The baby must have golden eyes to be passed as his child." Mason tilted his head, a devilish smirk on the corner of his lips. "Kellan will be a good choice."

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