Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 239

Chapter 239: THE CRITICAL SITUATION (31)
This was crazy. The heavy burden in her shoulder for the responsibility to be the one, who took her own mate’s life was insane.

Dawn felt the dagger was so heavy in her hand when she curled the hilt. She was trembling. The pain of losing her beast was nothing compared to the pain of the thought of losing Zenith.

How could she lose her? When the last time they talked to each other? She remembered it was when she returned to the palace after she took care the venomous snake in the tent.

Who would have thought, that would be the last time they talked to each other? She felt like it happened a few lifetimes ago. She missed him dearly.

How could they end up like this? There was not even a goodbye for them?

“Arrghh!!!”

Dawn let out a shrill scream, she felt her heart and head would explode at any minute. Darius and Pyro immediately came to her side, but they didn’t know what to say to make Dawn felt a little bit better about this situation, they didn’t even want to be in her shoes right now to make this crucial decision.

The two of them could only hold her closer, preventing her from falling apart even more.

Dawn then looked at her surroundings. All the people that she saw right now would die. They couldn’t fight forever and more importantly, her baby… her baby was not going to survive this pain.

Zander had told her that he saw Zade’s wolf spirit and he didn’t look good at all and she was going to lose him too.

She shouldn’t care about that, if Zade died, it meant the three of them would be together again, right? The crazy part of her mind told her to let go, not to care, but her mother’s instinct and a shred of humanity that left in her couldn’t take that route.

She didn’t want all the people to die because of her choice. She looked at Darius and Pyro. She didn’t want them to die, so did Zander and Zaya, also the rest of the shifter kind to go extinct.

With that, Dawn made the most difficult decision in her life, she stood up. The dagger in her hand was so heavy, but probably, it was only her heart that pressed her down.

“What are you going to do, Dawn? You couldn’t go out there and approach Zenith without any plan!” Pyro immediately stood up when he realized what Dawn had decided, while Darius was in so much pain to even stand up on his feet.

“I know.”

“You need to make a plan first.”

Dawn didn’t immediately answer that suggestion, her eyes fell on the two black beasts that fought fiercely against each other, though they looked the same, somehow, Dawn could differentiate the two twins.

“There must be a reason why the prophecy said that it should be his mate, who killed him.”

After saying that, Dawn stepped out of the shield and went toward the two beasts. There was no hesitation in her steps, but the closer she got, the more she wanted to stab the dagger in her hand to her own heart.

Just like what Zander said and she said earlier, there must be a reason why it should be her and she found out the reason of it.

When Dawn came closer to the two beasts, who were fighting, Zenith’s beast turned rigid. He didn’t want to get closer to her, because he could accidentally hurt her.

“Even when you lost your mind, you still want to protect me…” Dawn muttered under her breathe. “You only make this harder for me, you know? You should have just attacked me. You should have just come to me and attack me.”

Zaya came to her and put her hand on her shoulder, this was an encouraging gesture, as she watched her two older brothers fought against each other.

Usually, she was not even worried about the two of them were fighting, but this time, it was different. Because right now, they fought for their lives, they fought with the intention to kill each other.

“The first time I met Zander, he wanted to kill me because of the prophecy. He made me swear that I will never hurt Zenith. He was going to kill me, if I did something that could harm his twin, but right now, he asked me to kill him…”

Zaya bit her lip. She knew about that. “The situation is different now.”

“I wish he would threaten me again to not harm his twin. I wish he would just kill me at that time…” Tear fell on Dawn’s cheek, she stared at the dagger in her hand.

Zaya hugged her, she let Dawn to cry on her shoulder, because she felt like crying too. She didn’t want to lose Zenith.

“I wish I didn’t need to do this…”

“I know. I know and I am sorry.” Zaya herself wouldn’t be able to bring herself to kill Zenith. This task was too much.

And after a few moment, Dawn straightened her back, she looked like she already accepted her fate. She curled her fingers around the hilt of the dagger.

“Zander and I will distract Zenith. Attack when you saw the opportunity.” Zaya glanced at the dagger in Dawn’s hand and then went away to help Zander to corner Zenith.

Dawn’s vision was blurry because of her tears, she needed to wipe her face again and again to get rid of this haziness.

She pressed her lips and saw the opening, where she could stab Zenith. Zaya restrained his movement at the same time, but it was not enough.

Dawn managed to stab the side of Zenith’s neck and the black beast roared angrily, he turned around and was ready to claw his attacker until he saw it was Dawn and he held back the assault.

He still didn’t want to hurt her even when he lost himself.