Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 242

Chapter 242: HE WILL ALWAYS BE HERE
It was done, the war was done.

But this war this time left so much impact in the shifter world, because right now, they lost their ability to shift into their wolf.

All the shifters lost their wolf spirit, but they would live, just like what happened to Zander. They didn’t lose their ability to heal, they didn’t lose their strong senses, but they couldn’t have any connection to their wolf spirit, which meant, they wouldn’t be able to shift… at all.

Jared’s aim to destroy the werewolf world, somehow, succeeded, though he didn’t manage to kill them all, since all of them still lived.

However, it would take a long time for them to adjust themselves with the fact that they couldn’t shift into their beast anymore.

This was the most fucked up thing that they had ever felt. It almost like they lost their limb. Something was missing, there was this void that they couldn’t explain.

A huge hole that nothing could replace.

“Dawn?” Zaya called her when she saw she furrowed her brows. “Wake up.”

Her gentle voice guided Dawn through the fog of her mind. She opened her eyes and the first thing she saw was Zaya’s worried face.

“Are you alright?” She asked again.

“Where am I?” Dawn felt lethargic. She had a hard time to keep her consciousness when the darkness pulled her back. She wanted to hide…

“The palace.” Zaya poured a glass of water and helped her to sit down, she arranged the pillow behind her back. “You are alright. Everything is alright…” She said, as she held the glass to her lips. “Drink this, you will feel better.”

Dawn didn’t think a glass of water would make her feel any better. “Where is Zade?”

“Zade is with Yara. You don’t need to worry. He is fine,” she said with small voice. She caressed her cheek and checked her temperature. “Your fever had gone down, thankfully.”

“How long?” Dawn rasped. She didn’t want to talk about the war. She didn’t want to be reminded what she had lost.

“A week.” Zaya knew what she wanted to ask.

Dawn nodded and moved to get off the bed, but Zaya stopped her. “No. You can’t go. You need to rest. This is in the middle of the night, Zade is already sleeping now.”

“I want to see my son.” Dawn wanted to see Zade. She wanted to see him with her own eyes, to know that he was really safe.

She gritted her teeth when she felt the discomfort on her body, she pushed through. She didn’t want to stay.

Zaya could see that Dawn really needed this and helped her to get on her feet and take her to Zade’s room, where Burke and the other stood guard.

They greeted Dawn and Zaya, but they only nodded at them.

“It’s okay, I want to be alone.” Dawn stopped Zaya from coming into the room with her, she wanted to be alone with her son.

Zaya wanted to refuse that, because she didn’t think it would be wise for Dawn to be alone, but the look on her eyes must have told her that she needed this alone time, thus she nodded and then stepped back.

Dawn closed the door behind her, she strode inside the room and found her baby was on the bed, sleeping peacefully.

She approached him and couldn’t help, but broke down crying. She tried to keep her voice down, but she couldn’t.

The sadness and pain, the longing and misery that she felt with the thought how she had lost Zenith came racking her body like a hurricane.

The dam was broken and she couldn’t control herself when she saw Zade’s sleeping face, especially when he opened his eyes.

Those beautiful blue eyes, the eyes that she loved the most, stared back at her.

“Momma?” Zade immediately got up and hugged his mother. He wrapped his arms around her neck and patted her back. “Momma, don’t cry… don’t cry.”

“I am sorry, Zade. I am sorry that I woke you up.”

“It’s okay… don’t cry momma.” Zade gave kisses on her cheeks and all Dawn wanted to do was to curl herself and drawn in misery. “Momma, where is Dada?”

“I am sorry, Zade. I am sorry…”

How she could explain to him that his father wouldn’t come to see him again? How she could tell him that he would never see his father again? How she could bring herself to tell him that he would never Zenith again and he would never return?

“I am sorry, Zade… I am sorry…”

The little one blinked his eyes, he didn’t know why his mother was crying, but he didn’t ask for his father again, because the more he asked the more his mother became so sad.

Zade caressed Dawn’s hair, he was very gentle with her, he saw how his father used to caress his mother’s hair and she used to smile when he did that.

Therefore, Zade thought it would make his mother less sad.

“Momma, it’s okay…” he kissed her cheeks and hugged her.

Two days later, the funeral was held. It was a huge funeral, since there were so many people that died during the battle and because most of the bodies couldn’t be retrieved, since their dead bodies couldn’t be saved, thus they held the funeral for them by using the item that belonged to them.

The sky looked gloomy, as if the universe mourned their death too.

Zaya stayed with Dawn all the time and she didn’t allow anyone to hold Zade. She hugged her son closely and it broke her heart when the little one was smart enough to catch on thing that was happening.

“Momma, is my dadda dead?”

Zaya couldn’t control her emotions when she heard the question and excused herself, while Dawn had to be tough for her son.

“Dada is… no longer with us,” Dawn replied. “But, he will always be here.” She put her palm against his chest.