485: DON'T GO WITH HIM

DON'T GO WITH HIM

For a moment, Iris stared at the scenery before her eyes, as the sound of the waterfall was no longer as irritating as before, letting the warmth of the sunlight washed over her.  1

With so many things that happened, Iris felt like she had gone through a thousand night, instead of one, which was true for her in some way, since she was in the first Serafim's memories, which was worth years of her life. 

The lycan shifted back into his human form and knelt down beside her, Cane looked so exhausted and pale. Iris had never seen him in such condition before. 

"Cane?" Iris wanted to make sure it was him and not Lu, as he took his hand. It felt warm to her skin and she sighed in relief. "Are you, okay?" She caressed his cheek and he leaned against her touch, while closing his eyes, savoring this peaceful moment. 

"I think I am in dire need to sleep," Cane said in small voice, but then his eyes flew opened and stared at Iris deeply. "Are you, okay?" He straightened his back, feeling odd with the way Iris looked at him. 

"Hm." Iris nodded as a reply, but there were tears in her eyes. 

"What happened? Are you feeling pain somewhere?" Despite his lethargic state, Cane looked on alert when tear streamed down her cheek. "What happened?" He demanded, as he wiped her tears. 

Her skin felt so cold, probably because she had been in the open area with thin layer of dress for a whole afternoon and night. He was afraid she would start to easily get sick again. Recently, her health had improved and she didn't get sick so often. 

"Everything will be fine, it's over." Cane leaned over and kissed her cold lips. He took off his outer shirt and draped it on her shoulder, it didn't help much, but at the very least, it would add more layer to her thin dress. 

Meanwhile, Iris kept staring at him and this was so strange for Cane. He wanted to know whether she was alright, but she didn't say anything. 

"Let's go back," Cane said, he was about to stand up, but Iris pulled him down again and smiled at him. "What is it, Iris?" He wanted to growl when she still didn't say anything. He tried to look for injuries, but aside from the blood of that man, he couldn't smell another blood on her, not even her blood. Or was it because of the black magic that lady Cyan had performed, so it was not something visible? "Iris, I will lose my patient if you don't say anything."

"I love your voice," Iris blurted out. She smiled through her tears. "Please, talk more…" But, instead of talking, Cane went silence upon hearing what she said and this made her pulled his sleeve impatiently. "I want to hear your voice, why don't you say something?"

Iris didn't know there was such comforting sound like Cane's voice. In Na's memories, she could hear people talking and how thing sounded, and everything was so fascinating and new for her. 

She was stunned when she realized the cloud didn't make any noise when it bumped onto the other cloud, or how the wind actually made a sound. It also made a sound when she bit on her nails. 

However, Cane's voice was the most captivating sound that she had ever heard. His voice was heavy and hoarse, but comforting at the same time, as if his voice blanketed you with the sense of safety, if that could make any sense, because that was how she felt when she heard his voice. 

It sounded like a beautiful music, her favorite song, even though, she had never heard one and Hanna took the pain when she taught her how to sing, as Iris ended up mumbling the song instead. 

"Talk more, please…" Iris looked at Cane with expectant eyes, she looked like a little girl, who asked for a candy, while the alpha was too stunned to speak. "Cane?" Iris frowned. 

"You can hear me?"

Iris nodded vigorously, looking excited to hear him talking again. "I love your voice." She repeated the same thing. 

For a moment, Cane only stared at Iris and saw how genuinely happy she was, then he didn't know what came to him, but he chuckled. 

There were a lot of questions undiscussed, a lot of things that they had to share after what happened last night, not to mention they had unresolved issue even before the king's arrival, but right now, all Cane wanted to do was to hold his mate in his arms, to make sure she wouldn't go anywhere and stay with him.

If he could, he wanted this moment to freeze, so they could savor each other presence a little bit longer and forget about the predicament that would come to them after this. 

The king was dead, the alpha from the Red Claw pack was dead, hundred of royal warriors were dead. Sir Elijah and Leon as well. 

So many deaths that happened in such short period of time and Cane didn't have the energy to think of the solution for them to come out of this mess unscathed. 

The lycan had drained his energy. He felt like he wanted to abandon everything and took Iris with him to go somewhere else, where no one would bother them. Of course, it was only a fleeting thought that would never happen. 

"I can hear now, Cane. I can do something, you have to know that I have this power…" Iris rambled cut short when Cane leaned over to kiss her lips and put his hand on the back of her head. 

For a moment there, Iris returned to her chatter self and it had been a while, since Cane saw this side of her. He should admit, this one was his favorite side. 

"Don't go, Iris. Whoever that man was, don't go with him…" Cane said softly against her lips. 

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