Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 229

Chapter 229: THE CRITICAL SITUATION (21)
Fortunately, Dawn was right. Zenith stopped right in time before he could rip them off, but he looked in so much pain, the black beast roared in anger, the beast was enraged, as if there was something that aggravated him, or probably, he was trying to fight something off, something that he was the only one, who could fight this off.

“Zenith?” Dawn called him.

But, there was the time when all of the shifters felt the pain, as if their heart was being ripped apart, their skin was burned and the excruciating pain sent them to their knees. They couldn’t breathe and with the heat of this place, they were struggling for air.

This place was very hot. At this point, they felt like they were standing on top of a stove and they couldn’t even figure out how to survive this, because obviously, there was not even a shred of hope at this point.

The knights were trying to fight the black beast, once they realized the roar from the beast effected all the shifters.

Rowan led his knights to fight, they intended to kill the beast and Dawn knew that. Against the agony, Dawn pushed herself from the ground and ran toward Rowan.

“You can’t kill him!” She screamed at him, which didn’t help with her situation, because she was already having a hard time to breath. “I am going to kill you if you hurt him!”

No matter what, the beast was still Zenith. Her mate was there, somewhere. They needed to get him back, not to kill him.

“Are you crazy?!” Rowan was enraged. “I am here to help! Can’t you see that he is trying to kill all of you!?”

Dawn didn’t care! She wanted to say that out loud, but she stopped herself because she knew that was not the appropriate thing to say.

“There must be another way!” Dawn screamed at him, panting, she held his hand, which held the hilt of his sword. She knew that if the king wanted to push her to the side, he could do it without any trouble, since Dawn was literally very weak and in so much pain, but he let her to speak. “There must be a way to get him back. We can get Zenith back!”

Dawn kept saying all the things that jumbled up in her mind, at this point, she didn’t think her words was coherent enough for him to understand her, but she kept talking.

“Enough!” king Rowan finally snapped, he looked at Dawn closely. “We are done here! You kept saying to save him, but you yourself didn’t even know how to save him! What are you going to do to save him?” He looked at Dawn closely. “If you don’t have any solution, we will go with my solution.”

Dawn gritted her teeth. “You are going to kill the royal family.”

Rowan’s eyes blazed with rage. “This is not my battle, I could withdraw all of my knights and let you to fend for yourself if that’s what you wanted. So, you need to be grateful that I helped you here instead of threatening me.”

That was right, Rowan could get all of his knights to withdraw and leave this place as soon as possible, since they were so close to the harbor and their ships were still there, they could just bail out.

However, he didn’t do that only because of this silly reason in his mind. He was annoyed with himself because he risked all of his knight’s lives for this stupid battle that wouldn’t give him any benefit and now this woman rubbed him in the wrong way.

King Rowan then added. “Moreover, he is going to kill all of you, shifter, if anything, I saved your kind from the extinction. You need to kneel and kiss my feet to show your gratitude.”

After that, King Rowan didn’t even look at Dawn again when he walked away and sheathed his sword to join the fray to kill the black beast.

“No… please…” Dawn felt her heart was tightened to watch how Zenith was fighting against hundred of knights alone.

She was scared so much, the pain that racked her body was forgotten. She wanted to make them stop from attacking Zenith.

She could see blood, there was so many blood that stained the ground and she couldn’t tell whose blood was that.

She saw how the black beast’s fur coated with blood. Was that Zenith’s blood?

She was both terrified and relief to see the black beast managed to defend himself against so many attacks from the knights and while she didn’t want the knights to die, she didn’t want them to succeed too, because they were their last defense and if they went down, no one could fight the beast anymore.

“Zenith, please… stop.” Dawn whispered to the nothingness in the air.

One more knight down, his head was ripped off his shoulder and this enraged king Rowan, he charged forward to take down the beast and wanted to do the same with him. It became personal now.

However, the black beast moved so fast and his attack was very precise, where he could kill the attacker in one single move.

Darius crawled toward Dawn, his expression was ashen. He must have shared the same feeling and thought like Dawn to see how everything unfolded.

He couldn’t help Zenith because he couldn’t shift into his beast and even if he could, he wouldn’t be able to do so, since Zenith right now, was not in his right mind and would definitely kill him the moment he got too close to him.

“What are we going to do now?” Darius breathed heavily and Dawn shook her head.

“I don’t know…” Dawn breathed raggedly, she tried to wreck her memory, trying to think of a solution, a way out from this situation without having to kill Zenith.

There was must be the answer somewhere in their past life that could help them.