Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 137

Chapter 137: THE UNEXPECTED EVENT
The thing that Zaya wanted to see was the last batch of people to be put to death. That was what Zaya wanted to see.

Both Zaya and Celine were wearing hoodie that covered their face, especially the princess because her auburn hair was recognizable. She was the only one in this entire kingdom, who had this color of hair.

“Princess. I don’t think I can stand to watch this.” Celine whimpered when she lowered her head, while the next person put on the gallows. He couldn’t speak clearly, because their mouth was covered, but one could tell that he didn’t want to die.

“Close your eyes,” Zaya said, as she watched the whole thing without even flinched. She observed her surroundings and people’s reaction.

As the king, it was necessary to get rid of the people, who tried to retaliate against his reign, but public opinion mattered too.

Zaya didn’t want Zander to be labeled as tyrant, especially when he did this public punishment for a week straight. It caused a great tension among the people, the street looked very gloomy and the people didn’t dare to talk freely.

Zander did this because he wanted to warn those people, who even tried to think of rebellion, but it could backfire on him.

“You don’t need to be worry about this princess,” Lance said. He stood behind the two of them. He covered Celine’s ears, as she lowered her head. “The king has a plan to calm the people after this ordeal ended.”

“How?”

“The king will open the palace gates and invited people to come, in order to watch when he gave awards to people who have contributed to helping catch criminals.”

Zaya contemplated for a while. “Punishment and reward.” So, that was the route that Zander took. “From the look of it, my brother will still be able to maintain his image as a kind king.”

That was typical Zander, but of course, Zenith must have contributed to the idea of punishing them in public.

Zaya caught a sight of Celine, she felt bad. “I am sorry. Take Celine somewhere else. I will come to see you two later.” She forgot that not everyone had a strong stomach like her.

“No. Lance should be here. I will go alone. I will see you at that tavern.” She pointed at the tavern nearby. “Sorry, princess.”

Zaya and Lance didn’t have time to stop her when she already walked away.

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Dawn didn’t realize that Zenith came approaching her because of the smell from the fountain water. Probably, because of her pregnancy that her senses became more sensitive.

“What happened here?” Zenith pulled Dawn back, so she wouldn’t wet herself, since Aurel fell to the fountain. “What are you doing here?”

Zenith just returned from his meeting with Zander and the representatives from each continent when he caught her scent.

“Zen…” Aurel wailed, she looked pitiful. The look on her face reminded Dawn of a kitten that fell into the gutter. “I am sorry… I must have said something wrong that caused the luna to push me.”

Aurel sat down, soaking wet and crying.

“I am sorry, I have said something wrong to the luna…” She didn’t even make an attempt to stand up, as if she was waiting for help, when she was more than capable to get herself out of that situation.

“You pushed her?” Zenith asked his mate.

“I wish I had.”

“Let’s go.” Zenith couldn’t care less about Aurel, as he put his arm around her waist and walked back toward their place, leaving Aurel in her pitiful state.

“Zen!”

Realizing that she was being left behind, Aurel immediately got up from the fountain and chased after them. This was something that Aurel used to do. That was why, nobody wanted to deal with her craziness, especially Zenith.

“Dawn!” Aurel grabbed Dawn’s hand and accidentally scratched her.

“Ah!” Dawn startled and swatted her hand immediately, but seeing the blood at the back of her hand, Zenith lost his composure and grabbed Aurel’s hand.

It happened very fast, nobody expected this at all, because the next thing that happened was; Zenith’s claw emerged and he cut off her hand.

For a second, there was this eerie silence that lingered in the air, as blood poured down from Aurel’s cut off hand. It was a clean cut. Zenith cut her hand from her wrist.

And when the realization hit the healer, a shrill scream split the heavy air, as Zenith pushed her away from him. His body was trembling, not out of fear, but out of rage. Killing intent emanated from his body. He was going to kill her.

“Zen… Zen…” Dawn tugged his sleeve, blood trickled down from his hand, not his blood obviously. “Zen, what have you done?” Dawn watched in horror, as Aurel writhed in pain, cradled her cut off hand, while her other hand was a few steps away from her.

Never in her wild imagination that Zenith would do something like this to Aurel. They agreed to send her away after the investigation on her, based on Zenith’s suspicion, but they had never talked about a torture.

More so, it was an overreaction for Zenith to react very strongly just because Aurel scratched her hand.

Dawn was scared.

Suddenly, her vision was blocked, as the alpha covered her eyes. “Don’t look,” he said grimly. It was too late, though. Dawn had seen everything.

Because of Aurel’s earth shattering scream, a few guards came immediately to see what was going on and was shocked to see what happened.

They looked at the alpha, as if asking what they should do, but instead Zenith took Dawn away from this mess. He didn’t want to scare her further than this.

Dawn clutched Zenith’s arm, she was afraid he would turn around and kill Aurel, because right now, she believed that was something that he would do. He considered that.

The only time when she saw him like this was when he annihilated his pack.