The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter

Iris approached Cane and then sat on his lap, as he handed her a small, blue pocket. She opened it and found a few small balls inside.

"What is this?" Iris asked, picked one small ball and smelled it. It didn’t have any smell, but when she was about to lick it, Cane stopped her.

"It’s poison," Cane said. He took the small ball and put it back inside the blue pocket. "But, it’s not fatal until you mixed it with a certain food."

"Poison?" Iris widened her eyes. "Why did he give me poison?"

However, instead of answering her question, Cane stared at her.

"Cane?" Iris frowned when she received such intense look from him. "What is it?"

"Haco said you ask for it," Cane blurted it out, because that was what the sorcerer told him. "Now, I want to know why do you need poison?"

Cane could see a flicker of a complicated thought in her eyes, as she remembered something.

"Haco told me that you asked him to make a certain poison that couldn’t be detected. He didn’t remember the detail of it, but it stuck in his mind and he only felt the obligation to make it." Cane took the small blue pocket from her hand. "Iris, why do you need poison for?"

The alpha didn’t seem to mind when he learned his mate was a little bit violence with an elaborate poison, but he only wanted to know why she wanted a poison in the first place more so, for whom that poison she intended to give.

Iris lowered her head. "I didn’t mean to ask Haco to make me a poison..." she said in small voice, she didn’t think what she said at that time stuck with the sorcerer. It did make sense now that Haco had been working on this for as long as she remembered, so this was what he did when he fiddled with the herbs...