Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 138

Chapter 138: A PIECE OF MEMORY
If it was not because of the look on Dawn’s face, Zenith must have killed Aurel right there and then because he wouldn’t be able to hold back his rage. He felt like he wanted to split her face into half and cut off all of her limbs.

“Zen, what happened?” Dawn asked carefully, as he cleaned her from the blood that she got from him. She was only in her under garment, because Zenith insisted for her to be cleaned thoroughly.

Despite how confused she was, Dawn obliged, because she could see how anxious her mate was. She couldn’t comprehend, why Zenith suddenly became like this.

“Do you feel something? Do you feel something weird?” Zenith fired her with questions, as he rubbed her skin and inspected the back of her hand that Aurel just scratched. There was nothing there, because the wound had healed almost right away.

“Zen? Zen, calm down. You scared me.” Dawn winched when Zenith rubbed her skin too hard. “Ah! That’s hurt. Calm down, please. You hurt me.”

Only then Zenith stopped and hugged her.

Dawn was standing there, almost naked, so did her mate. He ordered the guard to burn their clothes right away.

She waited until he calmed down a bit before she asked the same question.

“That’s how she turned you crazy.” The word came from his gritted teeth. “I remembered that detail when I saw the blood on the back of your hand.”

Aurel practiced black magic too. She used Dawn’s blood to curse her, aside from the poison that she asked her to drink.

Even after she was no longer in the pack, she found a way to convince Fern to continue giving a small portion of poison, but for the second time, Fern didn’t put it on her food or drink, but she rubbed it on her nails when she was asleep.

The old servant noticed that Dawn had a habit to bite her nails whenever she was nervous. Meanwhile, Aurel would continue put a curse on her from afar.

Zenith got this information when he killed Aurel and only now, he remembered this piece of memory.

“She is a black magic user too?” Dawn furrowed her brows. Zenith was still hugging her. “We need to report this to Holy Kingdom, right? I thought the practice of black magic had stopped decades ago?”

“It is impossible for something like that to be completely eradicated.”

Dawn thought about it for a while and then something that was not really related to this matter crossed her mind.

“In the first life, do you think she had any relation with the sect that Zaya mentioned?”

“No.” Zenith let go of her body. “I don’t think she has anything to do with the sect. The sect only appeared after my death.” He stared at his mate closely.

“But, it has appeared now and you suspected Aurel has something to do with them.” Dawn frowned, but then, as if answering her own question, Dawn remembered what Zaya told her. “The consequences.”

That was one of the consequences of turning back time. Not only their memories returned and they could start over again, but also there was something vicious that supposed to be extinct in the past that came to the future as well.

“This must be one of the consequences of turning back time.” Zenith caressed her cheeks. “Let’s go back to the north. We don’t need to involve ourself in this matter.”

“But, Zen…”

“No.” The answer was very stern, leaving no room for negotiation. “Let’s go back to the north. You need a comfortable situation during your pregnancy. We will leave as soon as possible.”

Dawn did not completely agree with him, since she knew she was the one, who created the poison, she should be the one, who made the antidote too, right? Especially when the poison had spread in this continent.

But, she knew better not to disagree with Zenith now. More so, she was worried about her baby.

“Zaya, is here. She can help.” Zenith added, as if he knew what was in Dawn’s mind.

After that, he wiped her body and Dawn put on a clean dress, while Zenith called for Celine and Pyro. Unfortunately, the healer was not in the palace. She went out with Zaya, thus it was only the royal beta, who came.

But, Pyro came with the king. They heard what happened to Aurel and wanted an explanation from Zenith.

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The punishment had been delivered. All the people, who tried to stage a coup against the king had been punished severely. The council of elders and the advisors had been banned and Zander would introduce new regulation shortly.

Fear hanged in the air like a plague. People was scared by the king’s decision for this massive massacred, especially with their public death.

Even people from the other continent had been very quiet and lowkey, afraid to incur the king’s wrath. It was always scarier when the kind people suddenly acted out of their character that they were familiar with.

“Where is the princess?” Celine asked when she saw Lance came to approach her in the tavern. He clenched his jaw and she knew he was annoyed.

“She told me to come and see you.” Lance sat down and ordered something to drink. “She said to talk thing with you, because she saw that we obviously had a problem.”

“You shouldn’t be here, you need to go back. What if something happened to the princess?” Celine stood up, but Lance grabbed her hand.

“She can protect herself. She is a magic user, she will be fine.” Lance looked more annoyed.

Celine swatted his hand, but he stood up and blocked her way. “Do you want to gather unnecessary attention here? If you went to the princess, she will only scold me because I don’t treat you properly.” Lance rubbed his face roughly. “Is that what you wanted? Do you want to make me look bad in front of the princess?”