Chapter 36: HOWLING IN THE DISTANCE (2)
While she was eating, Iris kept hearing this howling in the distance. It was weird for her to hear this and she thought it was just in her mind, since it had been so quiet for a long time for her. Ever since she lost her hearing, she heard nothing, but herself in her mind, never a sad, long howling like this. Iris put down the empty bowl and felt a little bit better now that she was fed and then went on to put on the dress. It felt so soft on her skin, almost like one of her old dresses.
But then, the howling didn’t stop and this made her heart ache for some reason. The howling sounded very pitiful, like coming from an injured animal, begging for mercy. She was not sure why she felt this way.
How could she decipher such howling?
Iris looked at herself in the mirror, there were streaks of tears on her cheeks. She went to the bathroom and splashed water on her face and her hair to make her curls not look like a bird’s nest.
After that, she tidied up the bed and walked out of the bedroom with the tray in her hands. She didn’t want to be so ungrateful and not clean up after herself after receiving such kindness.
Iris walked gingerly in the corridor and only met a few guards that were on patrol around the area. They only glanced at her and left her alone, which she was grateful for, because the guards of the Blue Moon pack would snatch a slave and have a fun time with them whenever they could, but the people from the Howling Wolf pack didn’t do such a thing.
Even though Iris could see how much they hated her because she was Alpha Gerald’s daughter, something she couldn’t help with.
However, the more Iris walked away from the pack house to the kitchen area to put away her empty plates, the clearer the howling in her ears sounded. It bothered her greatly, because it almost felt like the wounded animal was only a few steps away from her.