Chapter 589: KODA’S PLAN
"What are you sad about?" Haco yawned again. He could sleep the whole day, and often skipped his meals. If it was not for Celia and Joel, who woke him up to eat something, he would go without eating anything at times.
Iris pulled her legs up against her chest and rested her chin on her knees. Her blue eyes dimmed slightly, while Haco resumed to fiddle with the herbs on the table. Though he often forgot about a lot of things whenever his memories collapsed, he would get mad if someone touched his herbs.
"I feel like a failure because I can’t get pregnant." Iris felt so bad to say that, despite the fact it was Cane, who had the problem, but as a woman, she felt so disappointed in herself.
"If you can’t get pregnant, it is Cane’s fault." Haco glanced at her, while doing his thing. "If he can’t impregnate you, he will not be able to get any women pregnant," he said as a matter of fact. He knew the truth about Sofia’s baby and thankfully, his mind was sober enough to hold this conversation with her, since Iris couldn’t talk about this with anyone.
Aliana was still unaware of Sofia’s baby’s father, or so Iris thought...
"Maybe because I am a runt, so my body is not up for the task." Iris felt even more depressed when she said it out loud.
"Nonsense. I think we have moved past ’the runt’ nonsense thing. You have the life essence of the first Serafim and haven’t we talked about the possibility that you are not your father’s daughter? Maybe you are not a shifter to begin with."
They had touched this subject in the past, but without enough information related to the topic at hand, they could only drop it and not make any assumptions to create more confusion, until they got more insight.
"My mind is not in the right place," Iris murmured. She hugged herself tightly, as if to prevent herself from falling apart. She was afraid to tell Cane that they failed again.
"Iris," Haco said her name gently, he finally stopped what he was doing and looked at her. "If it is meant to be, it will happen. If you were destined to become pregnant with his child, it would happen at one point in your life." Haco extended his hand and grabbed hers. "You need to stop being so hard on yourself. Sometimes, things that you really hope for, will happen when you least expect it."
Iris accepted his advice, but it didn’t help with her anxiety, especially when she remembered Grace was running out of the water magic stones and they needed them to continue making the concoction. The only place she knew where to get the water magic stones was in Lou’s guild in the Black Market.