Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 258

Chapter 258: THE ANGRY KING
“Please, thinking thrice about making her your queen.”

This time, Rowan stood up, but he still refused to talk to them, instead he walked toward the door and opened it wider.

“I see you are awake,” Rowan said with a small smile on his lips, he stretched out his hand to help Zaya stood up.

Meanwhile, Addie immediately stood up and straightened his back when he received a warning look from the king. Why would he squat down with Zaya and eavesdrop too? He didn’t have any explanation for his action…

“I am awake and I can’t find anyone. There is no guard.” Zaya tried to act normal, despite how embarrassed she was to be caught eavesdropping.

“This is my quarter, I don’t like anyone to be around, but if you wanted a guard or two to ensure your safety, I will make an exception for that.”

Zaya scoffed. She crossed her arms in front of her chest and then tilted her head until she could see the three generals inside the room. All of them had stern look on their faces and they stood up. They looked at Zaya rigidly, knowing she had heard their conversation.

If they were embarrassed for badmouthing her behind her back, they must have concealed it perfectly.

“There is no need. I agreed with you,” Zaya said solemnly. “More so, I am more than capable of protecting myself.”

Rowan chuckled. He stretched out his hand and tucked strands of her hair behind her ear. Her curls looked cute when she just woke up. This was the first time he saw her like this and he liked it.

“Don’t worry, we will stay in the same bedroom, so there is no need for you to be on guard.”

Zaya’s eyes met general Declan’s and he was stunned because the woman held his gaze. “Is that so? I heard the gentlemen over there disagreed to our marriage and they have different opinion from their king.”

Zaya stepped aside and then entered the room. Addie was about to stop her, but Rowan simply waved him off. He followed behind Zaya, as she sat down on his chair, which made the three general’s faces turned black.

They gritted their teeth, because they saw this as an inappropriate act. Zaya shouldn’t have sat on the seat for the king. She was not even a queen yet.

All of them looked at the king, but he didn’t say anything. Rowan simply stood behind the chair. The look of amusement on his face.

“You shouldn’t have sat there,” General Xander said.

“Let me make things clear for you,” Zaya said, she ignored the statement completely. “I am not a black magic user and I feel compelled to educate you on a matter of magic.”

All of their expression turned ashen now because Zaya made it sound like she was teaching children about basic thing, but indeed, Zaya only told them about basic thing of magic.

“No offense, but we don’t believe that you have nothing to do with king Rowan’s decision to gift your king one hundred thousand warriors,” General Declan said. He looked at Zaya suspiciously.

However, Zaya’s reaction next startled all of them. She pounded her little fist against the table. Though the sound of it was not intimidating at all, she startled them with her defiance.

Women in this continent tended to be very docile. They would do what their men told them to do and it was their virtue to take care of their men. Let alone to have an argument with their men, they wouldn’t dare enough to pound the table and show their blatant rage against them.

“Insolent!” Zaya said.

They were too shock to say anything, but in their eyes, it was Zaya, who was being insolent. Yet, before they could say anything, she already lashed out.

“How could you say that the king has a weak mind?!”

“What?!” General Xander growled. “We have never said that!”

“The way you talked about the king earlier, people who heard that will assume that the king has a weak mind because he could be easily manipulated!”

“You used dark magic! That’s why the king agreed with your request!” General Zake was fuming. He had been silent, but finally he reached his limit.

“I am not a black magic user! How many times should I educate you about magic for you to understand the concept?” Zaya narrowed her eyes dangerously. “Even if I were a black magic user, only people with weak mind would be easily manipulated. Do you want to say the king is weak minded person? Are you trying to insult the king? In my kingdom, that could be counted as a treason and the punishment would be a death sentence!”

Zaya looked very fierce when she said that, which made them lost their ability to speak. How could thing escalate so fast. Why it became a treason when they simply voiced out their disagreement for Zaya to be the queen of this kingdom?

“Don’t you dare to put words into our mouth!” Xander grabbed the hilt of his sword and he unsheathed it quickly.

Zaya had seen that and was ready to use her magic. Thankfully, she had one magic stone in her pocket. Zander had made all of her dress to be tailored again so she would have a small pocket for magic stone. That was crazy, but Zaya had to thank him for that.

However, Rowan moved faster, he grabbed a quill from the table and hurled it toward Xander, in which it stabbed the back of his hand and he dropped the sword immediately.

He hissed but he didn’t dare to make a loud sound.

“How dare you unsheathed your sword in front of the king?” Rowan’s voice was heavy with rage and Zaya had to tilt her head up to see the storm in his expression.

She had seen how ferocious this king could be, thus she felt sorry for them to be the receiving end of his anger.

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This story will end at the end of this month, read my new story: A Mate For The Last Lycan.