Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 169

Chapter 169: THE TENSION IN THE AIR
It happened in the early morning when they were having their breakfast. All the important people were there, including the representative from the Holy Kingdom.

The tension was very high, you could cut the air with a knife. The funeral for the gamma still left everyone speechless, since the gamma was an important figure, who stayed by the king’s side all this time.

Now, people talked who would be the royal gamma, since the position was vacant.

However, the real pressure was on elder Isaac because right now, king Rowan wanted the compensation from Holy Kingdom for killing one of his knights and he wanted ten magic users from them or a million gold. That was ridiculous request.

Right now, Elder Isaac was waiting for the answer from the Holy Kingdom about what he should proceed with this situation.

“Zenith…” Dawn called his name, she grabbed his arm when he talked to Zander and king Rowan. They kept their conversation light, about the new business of steel and the sword made of magic stone.

“Yes?” Zenith immediately turned to cater to his mate’s need when he heard he called his name.

“I think my water broke…” Dawn said. She had been pregnant before and she remembered the moment when she was about to go to labor. She felt the contraction too, though it was still far. “The baby is coming.”

Dawn only needed to say that and Zenith immediately sprung to his feet. His expression calm, as he scooped his mate in his arms, despite the fact that she was heavily pregnant. He held her delicately, because it was rather tricky to carry her with swollen belly.

“Call Celine, Dawn is going to give birth,” Zenith said to Darius.

The meat that was about to enter his mouth stopped mid air when he heard that, he widened his eyes and immediately dropped the food.

“Right away!” The gamma then dashed out of the dining hall and immediately looked for Celine.

“Actually, I can walk,” Dawn said sheepishly, the contraction was still far in between, she was still able to walk back to their bedroom, but Zenith wouldn’t let her.

Meanwhile Zander and Zaya followed Zenith back to their bedroom. They couldn’t wait to see the birth of their first nibling.

“Are you alright?” Zaya asked, she held Dawn’s hand. She looked fine, though the contraction made her frown every now and then.

“I am fine,” Dawn replied, she indeed looked amazing, she was ready for the birth of her first child, she had gone through this once and the second time didn’t really scare her.

More so, she was in good hands right now. Zenith was here and also people, who truly cared about her. Compared to her first time, this moment was all she needed.

Celine came not long after with two healers to help. Zaya would be in the room and obviously Zenith too, but the king was kicked out.

“Why am I being kicked out?” Zander frowned at the closed door in front of him.

“You don’t really think that you will be in the room and Zenith will allow you, right?” Sometime Pyro felt like he was babysitting the king, but the thing about Zander was, he could split his attitude in a mere second and became serious, just like what he did right now.

His tone of voice turned from sulking to be deadly serious, as he asked about the latest report about the movement in the Holy Kingdom.

“After they learned about the death of Aurel, the latest report said that they have an internal conflict among the elders there. The pressure from Marca El people was too much for them to handle and a fight against two kingdoms is something that they couldn’t afford.”

“They should have learned about that sooner,” Zander said in mocking tone. It was hard to see what kind of expression he made behind his golden mask. “What about the sect? Did the Holy Kingdom know about it?”

“Not sure,” Pyro said. The two of them walked away.

Zander opened the business with Marca El people not only for profit, but also to make an ally with them. Marca El was Zander’s leverage against the Holy Kingdom if something went very wrong.

Obviously, the population of shifter was not many. Their number only reached thirty percent of the total people who lived in this continent with Andel Kingdom was forty five percent and the rest was people from Karam Continent.

And now, Holy Kingdom became a little bit shady for the past few years.

Most of Karam continent was merchant, they were not here to fight, but Marca El was different. Zander could use them, but if he couldn’t use them for his own benefit, then sowing discord between Marca El people and Holy Kingdom would do.

“They could be completely innocent about the sect, but they could be part of it, I will not put it past them,” Zander said, as he sat down on a bench. “Keep an eye on the harbor.”

“Why?”

“If they wanted to start something, they would start from the Moonlight pack’s harbor.” Whether it was Holy Kingdom, the sect or Vemion.

Meanwhile, inside the room, Zenith looked even more nervous than Dawn, he clenched his jaw and held her hand.

“You will scare the baby if you make that expression,” Dawn said, she kissed his knuckles. “I am fine. I have gone through this once before.”

However, this was the first time for Zenith to witness the birth of his child, because in their first lifetime, he missed it, not only that, he missed the first few years of his son’s life. He didn’t witness his son’s milestone at all, because he was too busy and the relationship between them was not the best.

“Everything will be all right,” Dawn reassured him when it should be him, who was the one to do that.

Yet, Dawn didn’t give birth until it was close to evening.