451: THE DINNER

THE DINNER

"I am so happy, Maria." Finally, Sofia felt a little bit better after Jema's death. She had been very depressed ever since she lost the only person, who had been with her through everything. 

While Sofia would play a nice and a docile mistress when they were in the Moon Dew pack, it would be Jemma, who had done all the dirty work for her behind the scene. 

Being one of the mistresses of alpha Gallot was brutal, because the threat was not coming from the alpha himself, but from the other mistress. Therefore, Sofia was not unfamiliar with her situation and Iris right now. She used to live like this. Thankfully, alpha Cane had no other mistress. 

"I can see it in your face," Maria replied, she looked ecstatic too, though when Sofia didn't look at her, she felt this doubt that started to creep in her heart about the whole thing regarding Sofia. 

Now, without Kaz, who put Sofia in the pedestal and tried to make her look like the most important woman in the pack, because she had the alpha's first baby and now Iris acted aloof with them and only interacted with a handful people that close to her, everyone was in a weird mood. 

"Of course, you will be able to see it in my face. I must be blushing so much right now," Sofia giggled, as she let Maria to scrub her skin. She wanted to look perfect tonight for alpha Cane. 

Even though she didn't come to the dinner with the king, she looked forward to what would happen after that.

Usually, around this hour, she would fall asleep, but she didn't think she would even be able to sit still because of the excitement. 

"Your father will see us, baby. I am sure, he will be elated to meet you for the first time," Sofia said softly, as she caressed her baby in her stomach, who was moving a few times, as if the baby could feel her excitement too. 

Seeing this sight, Maria's eyes softened. 

It was a beautiful picture after all to see how a mother loved their child. 

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Despite the music and the entertainment, one could tell that the king was not happy with the party. This was not a party that was up to his standard at all, after all, without women and endless alcohol, how could one say this was a party? This was only a normal dinner with a boring music and wasted performance. 

Sir Elijah sat with Leon Dmitri, while alpha Dristan sat next to alpha Cane. It was not sure, when he found a woman to accompany him, but right now there was a young woman, who just arrived this morning and told them she was alpha Dristan's new mistress from the Riverside pack. 

It seemed, aside from his job to help Lou to build the magical device in the Riverside pack, he had time to find a woman to keep the alpha from loneliness. 

The girl looked so young, probably around Iris's age. She looked like she wanted to be anywhere, but here. The presence of all the sovereign, such as the alphas and the king, made her fidgety, after all, she didn't have a good experience with people in power. 

Meanwhile, alpha Dristan kept touching her, here and there. It was not something inappropriate, but enough to say, the girl was not comfortable with such affection. 

Sitting next to the king, lady Cyan looked so calm and harmless. The air around her was so serene, as if she was someone, who couldn't even hurt an ant. 

The welcoming party for the king looked so dead. 

Actually, there was nothing wrong with this, since Iris had planned it meticulously with so many scrumptious food and good music, it was just their expectation was something a little bit wild than this. 

Meanwhile, as the alpha of the pack, Cane didn't even seem to be interested to entertain the king or make the situation less depressed, knowing how much his guests bored their mind with this extravagant dinner that he called as a welcoming party for the king. 

Right now, the said alpha was way more interested to feed his little luna, as he cut meat after meat for her. He put away alcohol from her reach though, which made Iris gave him a look. She tasted the wine before and it seemed, she liked it. 

"I heard you have been giving away food to the commoner," King Aeon said, he wanted to call for Nala, but the girl had been very sick ever since they arrived, it seemed, he over did it with her along their boring journey to this Howling Wolf pack. "Are you trying to win people's heart so you can be the only alpha of the south?"

Probably, the boredom and the alcohol were not a good mix, now the king let loose his tongue, which made lady Cyan glanced at him. 

"I gave away the food in your name, my king," Cane replied, finally stopped his attempt to feed Iris more, when she already pushed his hand away. She was full. "Those people should be grateful for you."

That was true that Cane gave away the food in the name of the king, but even the stupidest person alive could tell, how untrue that was. There was no way the king would be so generous when he kept the food for himself and the royal family during winter. What he did was no different from the other five alphas. 

Knowing this, people was even more in favor for the alpha from the Howling Wolf pack, because he didn't take the credit for himself. 

However, king Aeon was not a fool, so he could tell what Cane was up to. This alpha only became more and more cunning with his method. 

Scoffed, king Aeon glared at Cane, who looked as calm as ever. "Do you think you can make a fool out of me with that reason? Do you want to get people's sympathy, so you can be the sole alpha in the south?"

Lady Cyan grabbed the king's hand, as if it was her attempt to calm him down, but Cane saw it differently. 

"My king, I heard the people from Holy Kingdom will arrive within this month. The only thing in my mind is how to picture you as a good king you are for the people, especially when the dark magic involved. We all know how sensitive this topic for the people in the Holy Kingdom and I know how much you don't want them to interfere with the problem in our continent." The answer came very natural from Cane's mouth, as if he was such a devotee, who would do anything for his king.  2

People, who didn't know him any better would think he had pledged his loyalty to the king, yet it was not the king, who carried on with the conversation. 

"The king is only worried that you have made a harsh decision to execute the five alphas recklessly. After all, five packs lost their alphas at the same time. You should have discussed it with the king first," lady Cyan said, trying to smooth things out. 

However, it was not Cane, who retorted to that, but alpha Dristan. Like a loyal dog. He wanted to flaunt he so called 'loyalty' to the other alpha in the room. "My lady, you don't know how dangerous the dark magic is. If alpha Cane didn't move quickly, it will be his life that's in danger."

This room filled with false loyalty and lies, thickened with schemes underneath their words. 

Lady Cyan nodded considerately. "I see. I see." But then, she lifted her head to look at Cane directly now. "But, I heard, before your journey to the capital city, you have executed your first mistress because she used dark magic, is that true?"

"Yes." Cane didn't blink an eye when he answered that, while a few servants had this complicated look in their eyes when Aria became the topic of the discussion. 

"How could that happen?" Lady Cyan asked again. "If one of the members of your pack has the audacity to touch forbidden thing, shouldn't you investigate further? More so, I heard the lycan appeared for the first time around the time of her death."

There, lady Cyan threw the idea in the air, telling them how it started with Aria, who used the dark magic first. Before all the five alphas were discovered to use dark magic, it was Aria from the Howling Wolf pack, who publicly executed for the same reason. 

Lady Cyan was trying to imply the connection between Aria, dark magic, the lycan and the accused five alphas. 

"The mistress must obey what their master said, no?" Lady Cyan drank her wine gracefully, while the king kept mum beside her. Compared to her, the sovereign looked more like a backdrop. 

Cane's eyes darkened when he knew where this conversation would go to, but he kept his front and drank his wine as well, looked unperturbed by what Lady Cyan tried to imply. 

Meanwhile, the people around them could feel the tension in the air and alpha Dristan looked a little bit less bored. 

People was intrigued by how Cane would answer that. Despite her polite choice of words, but alpha Dristan could see how this lady started to show her claws, while Cane didn't seem to bother. 

But, there was another person, who looked unperturbed as well, just like her mate, Iris didn't seem to concern with what lady Cyan said. 

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