Chapter 53: YOU ARE BEING CALLED BY THE ALPHA
Things that transpired between them were so clear from the very beginning. Cane had never forced her to stay. She was free to live her life. Right after they were freed from the slavery, the alpha had given her a choice and she insisted on staying, which gave her the position of the mistress right now.
"I will give you the same choice again now." Cane had never tried to deceive Aria, he had emphasized the same from the very beginning. "You can stay or leave. I will give you a house in a place that you want and you don’t need to think about money. I will take care of you."
What he offered sounded very generous, but compared to what she had done for him, during their slavery, it was only a small amount of gratitude that Cane could offer to people who always stood by him.
However, things had changed, their slavery days had passed and what they had to think about right now was not only limited to how not to get whipped today or how to get food for them to live on. That was no longer the problem that they had to face.
Starting from now, it would be way more complicated than that, but Aria refused to see the bigger picture and Cane couldn’t make her change her way of thinking. However, he couldn’t keep her around either knowing she could cause potential trouble in the future. There were so many things at risk now.
"Are you throwing me away?" Aria cried, she looked at Cane. She was visibly upset and hurt.
Yet, after all that Cane had said to her to make her understand things, it all seemed in vain. She was a lost cause. It was simple, they didn’t see the same light. They walked different paths now.
"How can I throw you away when I don’t actually own you?" Cane looked at the woman in front of him and saw the hatred in her eyes, not toward him, but Iris. There must be more people who shared the same sentiment as her out there. "Iris will be the luna of this pack and I want you to respect her. You don’t need to interact with her if you don’t want to, but I want you to understand that she is no longer a slave, so I don’t want you to pull the same trick again."
Actually, Aria had overstepped the boundaries and she should be punished for what she had done, but Cane was not going to do that. However, she would only cause even more trouble in the future if he didn’t make things clear to her.
On the other hand, Aria felt a huge lump in her throat when she heard that. "You chose your enemy’s daughter over your people." No amount of explanation could change the way Aria was thinking about it. "You chose her over me."
And after saying that, Aria turned around, she didn’t want to see him for a while. Her steps were so heavy, her heart ached so badly. But, before she walked out of the bedroom, she turned around and faced Cane once again.