Chapter 199: LIFE CAN BE VERY CRUEL
The silence between them was deafening and it almost felt like they had reverted back to the very beginning, to the time when Cane saw her as Gerald’s daughter and himself as her master.
And just like what was expected of him, there was no explanation. He didn’t reopen the conversation about what Redmond had said earlier, he just kept silent. He let the other person think whatever she wanted, without him giving any idea over what was in his mind.
What Redmond said had opened a can of worms and this made all the progress, even the mate bond between them, pale in comparison to the pain that they tried to forget.
What traversed before was a bunch of unspoken things, it fell into the same list of the things that they pretended had never happened, just like how Cane found comfort every night by holding Iris close to him or how they talked about pain and scars the other night.
They were forced to move forward by licking their own wounds while pushing the shameful past to the backs of their minds, but right now, the same past dragged them down and made the present become more difficult. The life they had could be very cruel.
"Redmond will not say anything about the secret," Iris finally said after a long moment of silence and she was sure, if she didn’t say anything, they would stay like this for another hour, since Cane was very familiar with this silence.
"Mm," Cane intoned. "Thank you."
"I will go back to my room," Iris said again.
Right now, they were occupying the west watchtower, which required them to share the same small room and bed. Iris didn’t think she could go back there after Redmond burst the world that she created in her head, where she had never gone through such dreadful things before.