The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter-Chapter 982: TRYING TO HEAL

Knowing Iris, Cane was sure, she would do anything, everything to save Letto but the fact that she didn’t do it made the alpha was even more concern at her.

There must be a more important reason about why she didn’t do it and seeing her feeling so much guilt pained Cane. He lifted her body and cradled her. He didn’t question his mate again, because right now Iris was too devastated to answer any question.

Like usual, Cane waited until she calmed down, he let her to take her own time to understand her feeling, but he also made sure that she knew he was there with her.

After an hour had passed, finally Iris was calm down enough to stop crying, but it didn’t mean she would immediately speak.

Aliana came to deliver her meal and she saw Iris’s current condition, but knowing the alpha was there with her, she didn’t say anything and immediately left the room.

Iris only asked once about their babies and after Cane reassured her that the two of them were well taken care of and surrounded by their people, Iris simply nodded and rested her head against his chest again. She clutched onto him, as if she was afraid Cane would vanish all of sudden.

"I can save him, Cane. I could have saved him..." Iris finally spoke after they stayed in this silence for hours. "I can use the air magic stone to save him, but I couldn’t use it."

"Why?"

"Because I need to use it on you."

Not like the other magic stone, air magic stone was only one in this entire realm, once it’s gone, it would be forever gone.

Therefore, if Iris used it to save Letto, she had to sacrifice Cane. No. Called her cruel and every bad name on the book, but she would rather to have someone else’s died rather than Cane.

Iris would rather kill a hundred people than to see Cane suffered.

Called her insane and selfish, but she was not going to lose Cane no matter what.

"For what?" Cane still couldn’t understand. His lack of knowledge about magic started to annoy him now.

"Lu was extracted from you," Iris said. "...Haco, in his last days..." She felt her throat tightened, she couldn’t continue. She didn’t want to imagine if Cane had to go through the same thing like Haco. She didn’t even want to think of it.

And Iris didn’t need to explain her point, because Cane completely understood what she was going to say.

"You are not going to lose me, Iris. Haco and I were different."

Iris shook her head. "I am not taking the risk, Cane." She was not going to take the risk, she was going to do everything in her power to prevent that from happening, not even a tiny bit chance was allowed for that to happen.

Yes, Haco and Cane were different.

Haco was a magic user and Lu had been with him for more than five decades, but while Cane was a shifter and Lu had only been with him for three years, Haco had never integrated with Lu in the deeper level like Cane did.

Cane literally used his power and every knowledge and memories the lycan had. Cane and Lu was only a step away from being fused together like what happened between Iris and Na.

Iris wouldn’t believe if there was completely no side effect from that. She was really not going to take the risk of losing her mate.

After all they had gone through together, it was not fair if she had to lose him in this way.

However, the fact that she had to do what she had done to Letto, racked her with guilt and her conscience couldn’t take it.

"That’s not your fault, Iris." Cane hugged her tightly, squeezed her body when she started to cry again. "That’s not your fault."

Cane didn’t want Iris to feel guilty, but he knew, in the long run, if something really happened to him and Iris could have done something to prevent it, she wouldn’t be able to live with the guilt and he wouldn’t be there to reassure her that she didn’t do anything wrong.

"Thank you." Cane kissed the top of her head and squeezed her body gently. "I am sorry."

He thanked her for all the sacrifice she had done for him and apologized for all the pain he caused her. He wished, he could help to alleviate some of her pain.

Only after a week, Iris could finally feel a little bit better and got out of the bedroom.

All this time, Iris would spend her time sleeping. She didn’t see her babies often and because of her current state, she couldn’t continue to breastfeed her babies, because she couldn’t produce enough milk for the twin.

This fact, devastated Iris and she spiraled one day. She was crying non stop when Zander cried when Iris carried him, the baby might feel his mother’s whirlwind emotions and this made him uncomfortable.

Iris was depressed and Cane was there to be with him.

But thankfully, it didn’t last for long, a week later Iris walked out of her bedroom and looked for her sons after two days straight she didn’t see them.

The babies were with their wet nurses, they were being breastfed when Iris walked in and as if they could sense her scent, Zander and Zenith wriggled their bodies and stopped eating, as they stretched out their little arms toward Iris. They wanted to touch their mother.

This sight warmed Iris’s heart. She approached her babies and hugged them both, apologized for neglecting them.

Aside from Cane, Hanna and Aliana played a big role for her recovery. Physically, Iris was fine, but it was her mental that took a toll on her.

Only after two weeks later Iris could breastfeed her sons again, which meant, she didn’t need the wet nurses for her babies, this made her really happy. She looked much calm and slowly became herself again.

"Cane, you can tell me what is going on..." Iris said softly one night after she put her babies to bed. They were only less than two months and Iris loved them so much. She could see their wolf spirit curled their bodies near their cribs. "I am sorry, I left you alone again when I said we will face everything together."

"There is nothing to be sorry," Cane said. He pulled Iris to sit on his lap and hand her a few important reports and explained a few things to her, to keep her on the loop again about what was going on. "Don’t move so much," Cane groaned.

"Hm?" Iris turned her head and looked at her mate, but then she realized that she accidentally turned him on. She could feel how hard he was and this made her chuckled, she intentionally grinded against him.

"Iris," Cane called her name dangerously, while his mate nibbled on his chin, as a payback, Cane squeezed her breast and kissed her roughly.

However, before the situation could get further, they heard their baby cried. Iris and Cane immediately stopped.

"That must be Zander." He recognized his cry.