Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 131

Chapter 131: SUSPICION AND MORE INVESTIGATION
“How do you know that he will relent with money?” Dawn asked, she remembered that aside from loving his ‘babies’, Hecate was actually a money oriented person.

They walked out of Hecate’s house and Pyro created a portal for them. It took them less than three hours to get all the items and now, they could return to save Zander’s life.

“He is poor,” Zenith replied simply.

Dawn was speechless. “You are very judgmental.” She didn’t know how to react to that, since that was the harsh truth. When you were poor, money was all you needed.

“It worked.”

Zenith was not wrong about that, more so, a hundred thousand gold was a small amount that he was more than willing to pay for his brother. Well, that money came from the kingdom’s treasury, so it was not like he paid for that.

“Why did you want him to go to the palace?”

“We need a healer to replace that woman’s position. It’s good to have a back up.” Zenith was serious when he said he was going to kick Aurel out, but because of something that bother him, he put on hold on that plan.

Something was not right about her.

Once they returned to the palace, they saw Celine was still helping with Zander’s condition, while Aurel was sitting on the same position, so did Lance. The royal gamma was standing near the door, staring at his mate.

He had been so gloomy recently.

“Thank you, Celine, we got the items!” Dawn beamed toward her and waved the two items that they got from Hecate.

“Oh, I am so glad,” Celine said. She looked exhausted. “Is there something else, I can help with?”

“No. I can take care from here,” Dawn said gently. “You can take a rest now. It must be so hard on you to work alone.”

It was no brainer. It didn’t need a genius to say that Aurel had been no help at all during these last three hours.

Aurel scoffed, she stood up, as if she wouldn’t take another jab from Dawn and chose to leave. No one would miss her though.

“I am going to work on this, so I am going to use the kitchen again.”

“I will come with you,” Zenith said, he walked with Dawn, while Celine stood up and walked away as well after Aurel had left first.

“I am going to leave too,” Lance said to Pyro, he didn’t wait for his answer and immediately followed Celine, he managed to catch up with her around the corner. “You have been ignoring me,” Lance said. He blocked her way. “What are you upset about?”

Celine’s eyes dimmed when she heard the last question. “You asked that because you didn’t know or you simply didn’t listen to a thousand explanation that I told you about why I am upset with you?”

“Is this about Aurel again?” Lance sighed. “She is nothing. You are my mate. My destined mate. Why are you so jealous about her?”

“Because you give me the reason to.” Celine took a deep breath. She knew that Lance had been liking Aurel ever since they met for the first time, but unfortunately for him, when Celine came to age two years after they met, they figured out that she was his destined mate.

But, it seemed, the mate bond between them was not strong enough for Lance to curb all of his affection toward Aurel.

“Let’s end this. This is so tiring.” Celine was about to say the word when Lance covered her mouth, preventing her from saying them.

“Don’t you dare to say that!” Lance looked very angry. “Whatever argument we have, we will talk about it when you are calm down!”

Actually, Celine had been nothing, but calm.

After Lance said that, he walked away from her, he shifted into his beast and disappeared from her sight. Didn’t give her a chance to reject him.

Meanwhile, Celine didn’t know what else she had to do at this point.

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“Is this a concoction that required you to stand for hours?” Zenith asked, as he watched how Dawn stirred the liquid inside the pot.

“No. I only need to stir it for fifteen minutes.”

Zenith was still not happy about that. “Should I kill him instead, so he will stop bothering you?”

“Zen!” Dawn knew Zenith wouldn’t actually do that, but he said those words with straight face, which made it looked scary.

“Why do you think he relapsed again?”

“There must be something that triggered it,” Dawn said and because Zenith couldn’t do anything to help, he stood behind her and started to massage her shoulders. “Zen, are you going to break my bones?” She moved her body away from his hands.

“Is that too hard?”

“Yes.”

“Let me do it again.”

This time, he did it more gently, which actually very help, because Dawn felt her shoulders were stiffened.

Right now, they were in the kitchen again and all the omega wondered what the alpha and the luna were doing inside.

“What could be a trigger?”

“It could be anything. I want to investigate about it again.” With her new memories about her past life, she was way more knowledgeable now. She was sure that she could find something.

“I have investigated about Aurel,” Zenith shared the news that he didn’t even share with his gamma or Pyro.

“Aurel? You suspected her?” Dawn was surprised, just like everyone here, she only thought Aurel was a vain person, she had been very upfront about her feeling toward Zenith, thus they didn’t notice anything else about her.

Zenith told her about everything that he had figured out, but it was still not enough to put Aurel in the spotlight.

After fifteen minutes passed, Dawn gave the medicine to Pyro, who helped Zander to drink it. Dawn told the royal beta to let him rest, until the medicine took effect.

And later that noon, Zaya arrived at the palace.