Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 120

Chapter 120: DENIED HER ENTRANCE
The result of the trial was a chaos. The four people would be sent to the gallows, along with the people who followed their orders, which reached a high number of two hundred people.

But, that was not all, because there would be the second trial for different group of people. Zander’s plan was to lure them all out and they bit the bait, they staged a coup. Their number was massive, because they were going all out that night, since Zander opened the opportunity for them.

However, what caused the uproar was not because of the trials, but the fact that the king had disbanded the council of elders and the advisors.

Two elders and three advisors were formed around ten years ago when they faced a crisis, when the future queen, Zander’s mate turned into a traitor.

“Don’t you think it’s too fast?” Pyro asked Zenith on their way back to the king’s bedroom. “Zander wanted to see the progress and gather more evidence.”

“There is no need to wait. They will attack us eventually.” In that case, it would be better if they attacked them first, giving no room for retaliation.

Both brothers had different method.

“He is the king, one evidence is enough to send them to the gallows.”

“Yes, but public will not see it that way.”

“Why? He wants to keep the image of that silly and kind king?”

Pyro was speechless. Both of them entered the room and found Aurel was inside, she checked on Zander and Lance was already there.

The beta gave a look to Lance, but the gamma ignored it.

“How’s the trial?” Aurel asked, she stood up and approached Zenith and Pyro.

“How is he?” Zenith asked, didn’t bother to answer her question.

If Lance had been here and Aurel really wanted to know about how the trial ended, she could ask him, since the gamma was present in the court room.

“He is fine,” Aurel said in small voice, but all of them could smell her hesitation. “I only need some time.”

“Are you sure about that?” Pyro stepped forward and checked on Zander, but unfortunately, he knew nothing, but a very basic checking up. He couldn’t tell whether or not Zander’s health had improved. “Call Celine here.”

“No!” Aurel immediately rejected the idea. “You promised me that you will let me cure the king! I don’t want any involvement from anyone! You could see it, right? Because you messed up with my treatment, Zander relapsed again.”

“Call Celine here,” Zenith said.

“But you promised…”

Zenith’s sharp glare was enough to shut her up. “I don’t promise you anything.”

Aurel cowered under Zenith’s eyes, she felt his hatred. If before Zenith would be aloof with her, right now, he actively hated her. Aurel was confused, what she had done so wrong to deserve his wrath…

Lance returned with Celine not long after and the healer immediately checked on Zander. What she said was the same like before and this angered Aurel.

“If you thought that you are smarter than me, you can treat the king.” Aurel gritted her teeth and looked at Celine with hostility.

“I only said my opinion. I didn’t mean to contra your method,” Celine replied calmly. The way she carried herself was so different from how Aurel acted.

There was a deafening silence that fell inside the room before Pyro made a decision.

“Continue with the treatment.”

Aurel smiled smugly, in which Celine didn’t understand what was that for, since they were not in a competition of short. She excused herself if they didn’t need her anymore and left the room.

Zenith approached the bed and he could tell that Zander didn’t do well, but he didn’t make any suggestion to let Dawn check on him again and this pleased Aurel, thinking Zenith was no longer trust that woman.

Meanwhile, when Celine went out of the room, Lance followed her, he walked beside her without saying anything, because it bothered him to see how calm Celine was.

He knew that Celine was always like this, but he could feel how she pulled away from him. Their mate bond was not as strong.

Sometime, he couldn’t even hear what she said through mindlink.

“Just say it. You have put some effort to follow me, you can say what you are thinking.” Celine didn’t even look at Lance.

“Why are you pulling away from me?” Lance asked, their relationship was not good recently.

“I don’t know, maybe because my mate always chose to fight with me, instead of fight for me.”

That hit Lance. “It’s not that I will not fight for you, but you know how Aurel is.”

Celine stopped walking and sighed deeply. “I don’t know her, Lance. I don’t know her.” Celine looked at him for the first time and he could see the hurt in her eyes. “But, it seems, you know her more than your own mate.”

“That’s nonsense.” Lance narrowed his eyes. “You are not like this before.”

“Yes, because I am done to be very understanding.”

“She is nothing to me.”

“But, the way you acted, said otherwise.”

Celine wanted to say the words, but she held herself back and didn’t want to do it out of impulsiveness, thus she chose to walk away, because if Lance didn’t see the error in this fight, then there was nothing she could say would be enough for him.

The next day, Dawn arrived early in the capital city than they expected, but when they were about to enter the palace, they were stopped.

“What do you mean we are not allowed to enter? Don’t you know who she is?” Darius shifted into his human form, he confronted the guards.

“This is an order from the royal beta Pyro.”

“What?” Darius furrowed his brows, livid. “Why the hell he forbade the princess to enter the palace ground? We will enter in one way or another, so you better call Pyro here to give us an explanation.”