545: THE CHAOTIC MORNING (2)

THE CHAOTIC MORNING (2)

"You disappointed me so much, Kaz, to the point I don't want to look at you," Cane finally spoke, once Kaz stopped and his words were akin to a dagger that was stabbed to his heart. "You degraded my luna so much, I feel like I want to banish you from the pack if it's not for your contribution all this time."

"Alpha, you misunderstood the situation… when did I degrade the luna? I will not dare to do so." Kaz was tearful and Cane's eyes darkened. 

"Should I start with the way you talk to her? Or should I start with the way you rally people behind you to create a hateful image about my mate?" Cane's figure towered above Kaz right now and the old steward looked so dreadful, as the alpha's domineering nature overwhelmed him. "That's an act of betrayal, Kaz."

Hearing that, Kaz shook his head vigorously, feeling very dreadful when Cane saw it in such way. "I will never do something like that, alpha! I will never betray you!"

Cane didn't answer that, he let him rambling again, explained things incoherently and waited for him to stop before he spoke with finality, because he knew there was no end for this conversation and even if he pointed out all the things that he had done wrong, Kaz would never see his error, since he didn't see himself in the wrong, so it was a futile conversation in the end. 

"Iris is the luna of the pack and she is my mate, my equal. The offense you committed to her, is the same like you offended me and you have no remorse for that, Kaz."

"Alpha…" Kaz looked so pitiful. "I can't. I can't see her that way… she is Gerald's daughter and I can't see her without being reminded of what her father had done to us!" Kaz said with bitterness. 

"Even after everything she had done for us?"

"I know, it's so wrong to hold her accountable for what her father has done, but… I still can't accept Gerald's daughter as the luna of the pack…" Kaz admitted it openly. The pain of their slavery had engraved too deep inside him and it was hard for him to let it go. 

Every time he saw Iris, he felt like he saw Gerald was guffawing at them for taking his blood as the luna of the pack, even after the fallen of the Blue Moon pack. This was something that Kaz couldn't accept.

That was why when Sofia came around claiming she was pregnant with the alpha's child, he welcomed her with opened arms, no question asked. 

"That's more than a reason why I don't want you to be around anymore, Kaz. You are full of hatred and it didn't help to have you spread hatred among the people to go against my luna."

Kaz lowered his head, he felt so bitter with the way Cane defended Iris. 

"Teach Carla everything and then retired, Kaz. Enjoy your time. This will be my last order."

Being abandoned like this was even worst than a torture for Kaz. "Alpha, what you see in her? She didn't have anything to over to you, aside from the Blue Moon pack." Kaz gritted his teeth and balled his fists when he spoke again. "She can't even produce an heir for you after almost a year you are together. Her runt body must not able to carry a child."

The moment Kaz finished his words, he wailed in pain, as he held the other side of his face and blood dripped from the wounds on his cheek. 

The pain rendered him speechless, but what shocked him even more was the fact Cane had just attacked him. The alpha had just clawed his face and this rattled him to the bone. The alpha actually attacked him!

He would have never thought, the alpha would hurt him and attack him as if he was an enemy. 

"Kaz, I am not tolerating anyone, who talked thrash about my mate. Not even you." Cane narrowed his eyes dangerously, as a murderous intense exuded from his body. "You should know better not to test my limit."

His eyes were so vicious and fathomless, as if you could be swallowed into the darkness if you stared a little bit longer. 

Cane was trying to suppress his killing intent, but even so, Kaz was still able to feel it and this shook him to the core. 

"Al- alpha…" Kaz wailed. Instinctively, he moved away from Cane, afraid for his life. 

"Leave, Kaz. This will be the last time I see you." Cane's voice was so deep and his whole body was trembling. It was so rare to see him so angry, and even more scarce for him to attack his own people, especially someone as older as Kaz, who definitely couldn't defend himself if the alpha really wanted to kill him. 

Kaz had tears in his eyes when he stood up his wounds had healed, leaving only trace of blood on his face, but his heart ached so bad with the way he was being treated. 

Yet, in a matter of fact, there was no middle ground solution for this matter when the old steward refused to own up his mistake and see how he was in the wrong. 

That would be a pointless argument and Cane didn't have any desire to waste his time with him. 

It was a pity that the relationship between them had to end up in the bad note, but then Cane wouldn't have trouble to sleep knowing Kaz deserved it. What he said and the way he treated his mate was way worst than a mere claw on the face. It cut Iris so deep and it was his fault not to see it. 

As Cane tried to control his anger, the flashes of Iris's outburst that day resurfaced to his mind, he could feel the rage of the lycan as well to see how upset and helpless she was. 

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Iris and Aliana, also the seven warriors were in the front yard, along with the other warriors and a few people, who would come with them. 

In addition, there was this little girl, Celia, who would come with them, as she would accompany Haco. It would give them time together as well before the sorcerer's health started to get worst and he completely forget about everything.  0

And also Joel. He came with them too because Iris would need to keep her eyes on him and more so, since Grace was among the entourage, there was no point for his recovery if he was left behind, because the two people, who could help him would be away for who knew how long. 

The young warrior's spirit looked great, he started to joke with the other warrior, though he was still not able to walk, but he could move his toe a little bit more every day. He was very positive and optimist he could walk again and what made him happier was because he still held the status of the warrior of the Howling Wolf pack. 

"Do you think Ethan likes Aliana?" Iris frowned when she saw the interaction between the two of them, both of them teased each other and the way the gamma stared at Aliana was so different. 

Both Aliana and Ethan were slightly away from Iris, but she still could hear their conversation, since they talked so loud and the way they interacted with each other was so natural. 

Amee chuckled when she heard Iris's question. "All of the people in the pack know Ethan likes Aliana, even though he didn't admit it, but he didn't directly deny it."

"Really?" Iris raised her brows in surprised. "I just realized it now." She felt so bad to miss this information. "What about Aliana?"

"I think she thought of him as her little brother." Hanna chimed in, she was there to see her missy off, since she wouldn't come in this journey, but she was glad Aliana came instead.

"Yes, unfortunately, Aliana didn't think the same way." Amee added. "She always said Ethan was too young for her."

"What their age difference?" If Iris was not mistaken, Ethan was twenty five or twenty six this year, depended on what month he was born. 

"Aliana is thirty," Amee replied. 

"I am older than Will by three years," Hanna said, she remembered that Will was younger than her. 

Thinking up to here, Iris started to think of the difference age between her and Cane and it was twelve years old! She had never really thought about it before, since Cane didn't look that old. Well, to be fair, shifter aged differently. 

"They became closer on the third years of the slavery when Ethan was traumatized by the savages and Aliana lost her mate also her baby almost at the same time." Amee looked so sad when he recalled that moment. "I think they became closer because they have the same way on how to cope up with the situation."

Both Ethan and Aliana looked so free and easy going, people, who didn't know them well, wouldn't have imagined what they had gone through. 

But, it was a pity, Aliana made it very clear since day one that she didn't see Ethan in such way. 

"I think they look good with each other," Iris voiced out her opinion. 

"I think the same," Hanna chimed in. 

"Nah, I don't agree with that."

All of them turned their head and found Lou had been standing not too far from them without them noticed his presence. 

But, Iris's attention fell on the white furball that rushed toward her. 

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