Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 167

Chapter 167: THE LAST HONOR
Of course, king Rowan had his own way to obtain an information and Zander knew that. This was how nice to manipulate a smart people, because they could move on their own, so Zander didn’t need to feed them information, because they knew what the necessary thing for them to know.

Zander would choose to manipulate people like this any day than the stupid one, because the latter only gave him headache and more task to do.

“Princess Zaya, could you please confirm that?” king Rowan asked, this time, he had a proper excuse to see Zaya performed her magic and she didn’t turn down the request either.

Zaya walked toward Aurel’s body, she looked a little bit sad for her to end up like this, but either in the first life or now, Aurel was someone, who would better off be dead.

Zaya would appear soft and kind, someone that you thought only had sunshine and rainbow in her life, but she had a tough time too when she lived far away from her homeland. She was being manipulated and did what she didn’t want to do with no one to rely on.

“She used black magic,” Zaya confirmed that after she checked on Aurel.

King Rowan was in awe when he watched how Zaya’s body was glowing with the soft light from the rune that she created on Aurel’s body to check the black magic. She looked so beautiful, soft, yet fierce, her blue eyes gleamed and her auburn hair made her looked like she was on fire.

The look on his face didn’t go unnoticed by Zander and the latter was not happy about it at all.

“Yes, she used black magic, but not as powerful to the point she could harm someone else!” Elder Isaac admitted that. “She was a healer!”

However, king Rowan didn’t care about that, the truth was in the open, someone from the Holy Kingdom had used black magic and killed his knight and he was not going to let go of this fact.

The other knights looked as livid as their king to see their fellow knight died for stupid reason.

Now, the Holy Kingdom needed to answer to the two kings. They managed to offend them and it was not a good sign for them at all.

“I will write for the Holy Kingdom right away to discuss about this,” Elder Isaac said grimly before he excused himself.

And when he asked for Aurel’s body back, Zander disagreed with him.

“We will keep her body for further investigation.”

Meanwhile, Zaya came to console Celine, she felt bad for her, but the secret would be buried with her. Her dear friend didn’t need to know…

The next day, the funeral for the royal gamma was held and everyone attended. This was the last thing that Zander could do for Lance, gave him an honorable funeral for his years of service.

All the people involved and knew what actually happened, felt bad for things to be like this, but they just wiped out hundreds of people, who wanted to stage a coup against the king, the traitors, it wouldn’t be wise for Zander to keep Lance around after what happened.

“How are you feeling?” Dawn asked Celine, she gave her a cup of warm tea, she found her in her bedroom after the funeral.

Celine tried to smile. “I am hurt, but it’s not as painful as I thought it will be. I was in shock when I learned he was gone, but then… the pain is still bearable, probably because the bond between us has weakened, that’s why I didn’t feel it that hard… it almost felt like this is the death of a distant family of some sort.” Celine lowered her head. “Actually, I feel a little bit ashamed that I don’t mourn him more.”

Dawn hugged her. Somehow, she could relate with her. “Don’t feel bad, Celine. People grew apart…”

Zaya just left because she had to take care of something, but she would return, yet on her way back, king Rowan approached her in the hallway.

“Greeting, princess,” king Rowan said. He towered above her, as he was very tall and bulkier than her brothers.

Zaya greeted him with the same fashion and offered her condolence. “I am sorry for the death of your knight, king Rowan. I didn’t wish something like this will happen during your stay in our kingdom.”

“Rowan, just call me by my name.” He smiled. “And I accept your condolence.” He didn’t look very sad. After all, losing people was common for him. He had lost so many knights before this.

“Are you on your way to console your friend?” Rowan asked Zaya, he blocked her way shamelessly. “Was that the royal gamma was her mate?”

“Yes.” Zaya nodded, she tried to step to the side, but he blocked her again. “Can you excuse me, please, I need to leave.” She didn’t even see his eyes and Rowan didn’t like this.

Rowan tilted his head. “I think what your king brother said is true.” He smiled when he finally piqued her interest and she looked at him in the eyes.

“What did my brother say exactly?” If it was Zenith, she didn’t need to worry, but because it was Zander, that brother of hers could say some ridiculous thing.

“He said you don’t like man. I think you really hated man.” Rowan chuckled to see her facial expression. He knew it was a lie, but to see this princess made such face was so funny. “So? You like that friend of yours in romantic way?” He egged her.

Meanwhile, Zaya was speechless, she made a mental note to turn her brother into a frog once she met with him!

However, before Rowan could get the satisfaction to tease this princess, her other older brother approached them.

“What happened here?” Zenith asked, his cold expression could make anyone was alerted, as if you had to put your guard up around him.