Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 238

Chapter 238: THE CRITICAL SITUATION (30)
Dawn didn’t want to listen to what Zander said, because she knew what he would ask from her. She knew what she needed to do, but she didn’t want to do it.

She was selfish to watch them died and lose their beasts, but to ask her to kill Zenith, it was too much, that was something she couldn’t bear.

Dawn shook her head desperately, at this point, her fear eclipsed her pain. She didn’t mind to be in this pain, but she was not going to kill Zenith’s life with her own hands.

She had done that once in their first lifetime, she was not going to do it again.

In this case, the story only repeated itself.

She was going to kill him. She didn’t want that. The pain was too much, she couldn’t breathe through the pain and Zander could see that. He knew what kind of pain that you must to endure when you have to kill your own mate, before they could kill you.

And he understood why Nadia didn’t tell him about her plan, because there was nothing she could do to convince him to kill her.

Zander hugged Dawn closely, he patted her back and she trembled in his arms.

“Dawn…” Zander gritted his teeth. “You need to do it.” He could feel how she shook her head vigorously against his chest, but it didn’t deter him from telling her the harsh truth. “If you didn’t do it, Zade would die too.”

With the mention of her son, Dawn stopped crying abruptly, she lifted her head and looked at Zander with incredulous eyes, as if Zander just told her the most horrendous thing, as if the king just punched her face.

“Don’t bring my son in this,” Dawn said through her gritted teeth. “You couldn’t blackmail me by using my son.”

Dawn was angry because now Zade was brought into the equation. He shouldn’t have brought up her son lightly in this matter.

However, Zander explained to her about what happened to Zade. She needed to understand the severity in this situation.

Dawn could ignore the pain in herself and the fact that she let down all the shifter kind by refusing the task to kill Zenith… but, she couldn’t ignore her child. Her baby son.

“He is dying now, Dawn.” Zander looked the pain in Dawn’s eyes when he told her about that, but she kept shaking her head, still in denial.

“You lied to me, Zan.” It was hard for Dawn to see Zander’s face, because he looked exactly the same like Zenith, though at the same time, they were so different. He didn’t have Zenith’s callousness, he didn’t have her mate’s love in his eyes, the love that could make her go through everything.

“I don’t lie to you, Dawn. If I could, I will give up my life for Zade. I will do it in a heartbeat.”

Dawn knew that Zander didn’t lie to her, but it didn’t make her felt any better, if anything, she felt even worse.

“No way… there is no way…” Dawn cried, she balled her fists tightly. Pyro and Darius looked at her, they didn’t know what to say and choose not to utter a single opinion.

“Dawn, please… Zenith will want you to do this.”

Dawn hated it, but she knew that Zenith would say the same thing. He didn’t mind to die in her hand and he had proved it once. He would do it all over again if it meant to save their son’s life.

“I couldn’t… I can’t…” Dawn tried to swallow the bile that rose in her throat. “If you wanted to kill him, you need to do it yourself. I don’t want to do it.”

“There must be a reason why the prophecy said it must be his mate.” Zander didn’t really answer whether he would do it or not, but he then he stood up and shifted into his beast.

Right now, Zenith had managed to breakthrough Zaya’s shield and try to kill her. Zander dashed toward the two of them and managed to push him away from their sister.

The fight was inevitable and this time, it was not like their other fight, because right now, they really fought for their lives. They didn’t hold back at all. Every strike was an attempt to kill the other people.

Zaya was shocked to see Zander was able to shift into his beast form. She wanted to ask how he could do that, but it was not the right time and moment to do so. She scrambled to her feet and looked around her. It was disaster to say the least.

The knights were exhausted. They wouldn’t last for long in this fight. Soon enough, they would be killed by the dead people if they didn’t find a way to close the crater.

Meanwhile, some of the shifters, who were able to endure the excruciating pain, fought alongside the knights, their pain tolerance must be top notch to be able to fight with such pain.

Zaya made a shockwave that sent all of the dead people and the dead monsters back to the craters, this gave them time to breath, but of course, it wouldn’t save them. It only gave them time for a few minutes to gather their strength again.

Zaya then rushed toward Dawn, she handed her the dagger in her waist, as she looked at her pleadingly.

“Dawn, I don’t want to force you to do this, but please, look around us and make the right decision.” Zaya didn’t know about Zade, but it didn’t make thing easier for her to ask someone to kill her own brother.

If she were in Dawn’s position, she wouldn’t be able to bring herself to do it, therefore, she could understand why Dawn was adamant to refuse this cruel request.

“Please, think about this carefully.” Zaya put the dagger in Dawn’s hand, curled her hand around it’s hilt and then went away to help them fight.