Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 243

Chapter 243: THE AFTERMATH
“She has been avoiding me,” Zander said. He was no longer seeing the masked men, but sometime, he still wore his golden mask, especially when he had to see Dawn.

“You know how hard it is for her.”

Zander understood, that was why he used to wear the golden mask whenever she was around, because it must be so hard to see him with Zenith’s face.

“She decided to go back to the north.” Zaya had talked to Dawn and she said her desire to go back to the northern park at that time, because she didn’t think she wanted to stay for long in the capital city.

“She didn’t need to go back,” Zander replied. “She could stay here for as long as she wanted.”

He was worried. Darius and Axel would definitely take care of her and Zade would be the alpha of the north when he came to age and while he was still a child, Dawn would be in charge for the pack.

Before this, they had never heard a woman, a luna alone led a pack, but Dawn wanted to do that.

“I think it’s best if she returned to the north.” Zaya agreed with Dawn’s decision. “She couldn’t stand to see you and being in the palace will be very uncomfortable for her, even though you wore your silly mask and more importantly, Zade is expected to lead the pack one day, it would be better if he is raised there, so he will know what he needs to learn.”

Zander listened to what Zaya said and he could see the point.

“Where she will leave?” Zander put down the mask. He stared at his reflection on the mirror. The only thing that he could do right now was to protect his twin’s family.

“She wanted to leave in two days.”

Zander nodded. “Understood.”

Later that night, Zander asked someone to call for Dawn. He wanted to talk to her, though it would be hard for her to see him, but this conversation was long overdue.

Dawn came after she put Zade to bed and Zander was still wearing his golden mask, he had his back against her, as he stared at the night sky.

“You don’t need to turn around to talk to me. I am fine now.” Dawn knew it was ridiculous for her to avoid him, but she couldn’t help it. “It’s not like I will see you again in the near future.”

“You don’t have any plan to come and visit your brother in law? I will miss Zade terribly. Maybe, I will ask for Pyro to create a portal that took me to the north every day.”

“He will chew you out for not taking care of the report.”

Zander chuckled and Dawn felt this pang in her heart when she heard that. Their voice was almost the same. She pressed her lips and arranged her expression before Zander could notice that.

“How is the problem in the west?”

“We managed to take down Vemion a week ago. I am sure you heard the news. The west is under our control now.”

Without the help of the dragon sect and the Holy Kingdom, which now had been eradicated, they didn’t have any real power, thus it was easy for Zander to penetrate their defense.

Zander moved so fast, he gathered all the warriors and asked for help from the knight of Marca El people.

King Rowan happily helped, because it was Zaya, who asked for his help directly. Dawn was not sure what kind relationship that the two of them had, but she was happy for her.

“How is… the people?”

Since they lost their beast, it was hard to tell whether they were shifter or not, it was a great adjustment for them, especially when they needed to learn how to fight in their human form even more.

Therefore, king Rowan had suggested his stay in this continent a little bit longer to teach all of the warriors of how to fight like the knight.

It hit the ego of the warriors, but then they couldn’t do anything. This was part of the hardest adjustment that they had to do regarding their inability to shift.

“They are still adjusting.”

Dawn and Zander talked a little bit more about trivial thing before the king brought up the main topic.

“Do you really need to move?” Zander asked.

“Yes.” Dawn then gave him the same reason why she wanted to return to the north and Zander agreed with her point, he only wanted to hear it from her.

“I hope things are different.”

“I am sorry,” Dawn said.

“For what?” Zander tilted his head, he didn’t think there was something for Dawn to be apologized for.

“In the end, I killed him.” She swore to Zander that she would never put any harm on Zenith, she swore that she wouldn’t kill him, but here she was…

Zander walked toward Dawn and caressed her head lightly. “I asked you to do that. You don’t need to feel sorry for what you have done. If it’s not because of you, all of us would have died. I am the one, who should apologize because I put a huge responsibility on you. I am sorry, Dawn.”

Dawn pressed her lips, she chided herself not to cry.

She was too deep in her sorrow, she didn’t even realize that Zaya and Zander also lost their sibling. She was not the only one, who was struggling with this grief.

“No. Don’t. Don’t apologize.” Dawn covered her face and Zander hugged her.

They stayed like that for a while and talked about a few things before Dawn left the room, but before that, she asked Zander to take off his golden mask.

“Are you sure?”

“Yes.”

Zander took off his golden mask and silent ensued, until Dawn chuckled.

“Zenith is more handsome than you,” she said lightly before she closed the door.

“No way. We are literally twin, okay.”