Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 262

Chapter 262: SHE KNEW HER ROLE
“You can’t be so sure that you will be the queen of this kingdom. The king has not yet decided that yet.”

“That’s not what he had agreed on.”

“Even if you are the queen, it doesn’t mean you can overrule the kingdom. You have to know your place.” Katerina leaned her back. “I am not sure how you were raised, but here, a woman’s virtue is to follow your man and obey them. Your action of interrupting the meeting is not acceptable.”

“In that case, the king can tell me directly.”

Katerina shook her head. “You are an outsider. You don’t know our tradition and what the meaning to become the woman from Marca El. Since you are very confidence to become the queen of this kingdom, you need to learn our tradition.”

Zaya’s eyes flickered with malice when she heard the word ‘outsider’. She hated the word so much, she was barely able to control her anger. She looked at Katerina closely when she spoke again.

“I am not a woman from Marca El. I will learn your tradition, but I will never forget my root.”

“What is your root? A monster? A witch?” Queen Katerina stared at her auburn hair. The look of warry and disgust were apparent on her face. She disliked her. Zaya was an outsider.

Now it clicked in Zaya’s mind when she heard that. These people didn’t see her as a real human. They had never seen magic user and the thought of a human could shift into a beast must be terrified them.

Sometime, what you didn’t know would scare you. Zaya could understand that, but she wouldn’t allow her to put her down and control her.

“I am a princess from Ogregon Kingdom, my mother is a great magic user, who was hailed from the Andel Kingdom, while my father was a great ruler, who had brought the kingdom out of the darkest time. Both of them were well respected people. It’s too shallow for anyone to assume that holding a power that great is a shame. The world is too vast, it’s not stop within Marca El continent.”

Katerina’s face turned so red, she hated to be talked back and Zaya had done it in their first meeting.

“I don’t think you suit to be the queen of this kingdom,” Katerina said through her gritted teeth.

“I believed that’s not up to you to decide.”

Katerina must be not older than fifty, but she looked so young, she must have taken care of herself greatly to gain this young look.

However, right now, her face had turned ashen and she looked like she was going to spit fire from her flaring nostrils.

Rowan said the woman in this continent was demure, but apparently, they only looked docile in front of the man. Zaya thought to herself.

“You are a stranger. I don’t know anything about you.” Katerina looked furious because Zaya defied her.

“Let’s keep it that way.”

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Zaya’s meeting with Dowager Queen didn’t end in good note in her opinion, because she left fuming. She wanted to teach Zaya how to be a perfect queen for this kingdom, which meant she had to tame down her aggressiveness and talked less.

“She said I couldn’t even say ‘no’ to Rowan,” Zaya said to Alice. She stared at the ceiling. Currently, the two of them were inside one of the rooms in this building, while the other magic users practiced in the clearing area. They could see them from the window.

Alice chuckled. She was one of the magic users from the Holy Kingdom. “I saw how the women in this continent acted with their men. They looked… obedience, almost very submissive.”

Zaya didn’t say anything, but Alice kept talking, she was staring at the other magic users out there.

“Do you think we can start a new life here?” Alice asked, she was one of the closest people that Zaya could call friend. Just because she knew almost all of them, it didn’t mean they were her friends.

“I think, we can…”

The Holy Kingdom was no more and all of the magic users went under a thorough and exhausting investigation under the command of princess Abby. Those, who was proven involved in the activity of black magic would be executed immediately.

Only a few people, who survived and these five hundreds magic users here were a few of them.

Despite everything, the Holy Kingdom had been their home ever since they were little, thus losing it caused them a great sense of lost.

But, they were promised a new beginning in this new continent. The problem was; they didn’t even tell them that there might be a chance that they wouldn’t be accepted by the people.

And now, they were stuck here. Their only comfort was knowing Zaya would be the queen, which meant, their life wouldn’t be miserable, right? She was their last hope to have a good life in this foreign land.

“You know that you will always have our full support, right?”

“I know.” Zaya stood up and then walked toward the door. “Tell me everything that you know and learn about this place. Even the thing that you didn’t think it’s important.”

Alice smiled, nodded vigorously. “I will.”

After that, Zaya went out to inspect those magic users, who were practicing their magic. Thanked to Zander, they wouldn’t run out of magic stones.

She watched them and gave advice here and there until Rowan returned, he come back two hours later, which was an hour early than he told her.

“My mother came to see you.” Rowan put his hand behind her back. “What are you talking about?”

That was the first thing that he said and it was not even a question, he must have someone reported the even to him, but he didn’t know what the conversation between the two of them inside the carriage.

“Nothing important, she only told me to be more docile and hold the virtue of being a woman from Marca El.”

“And, what is that?” There was amusement that flickered in Rowan’s eyes when he heard that and saw the look on Zaya’s face.

“Apparently, I couldn’t say ‘no’ to you.” She gave him a look and Rowan chuckled. “Why didn’t you take me to your mother or even talked about her?”

“Because she is not important,” Rowan said lightly, he helped her to enter the carriage before he came after her and sat down next to her. “She is still pissed because I killed her husband.”

Zaya nodded. “I can understand that. I will be pissed too.” She turned her head to look at him. “So, what she wanted to achieve by pissing me off instead of you?”

It was not Zaya, who killed her husband. She should come after Rowan instead of her.

“Simply because she couldn’t get to me.”

Zaya was not happy with this. “I should have asked in more detail what kind of trouble that I would face in this kingdom.” She should have asked two or three hundred thousands knights in return for all the trouble that she would face in the future.

Rowan seemed to understand what was in her mind, he leaned over and kissed her cheek. “Regret?”

“I couldn’t say I regret it, but I thought I will get at least a week of peace before I have to face any of this.” But, as it turned out, even in her first day, she had to deal with their strong rejection.

“You don’t need to see them if you don’t want. I will not allow anyone to enter the king palace and the magic user’s quarter. You can leave freely and you are not required to answer to anyone except me.”

Rowan eyed Zaya’s reaction with his offer and just like he had predicted, she crossed her arms. She was not happy to be sheltered.

“Why should I hide from them?”

Rowan caressed her cheek with his thumb. “So, what do you want to do?” He shifted his position to listen to her.

“I know that you will put the magic users in every border line of the kingdom’s territory. I will train them until they are ready and I want them to familiar themselves with the way the knights are fighting, so it will require for them to have sparing every now and then. Some of the magic users are not a combatant.”

Rowan smiled brilliantly, he knew that Zaya was smart, but it still surprised him that she had thought that far.

“You have thought everything carefully.” That was not even a question, but a statement.

Zaya shrugged her shoulders. “I think I will disappoint your mother, but I don’t want to be a queen by name only.” She then squinted her beautiful blue eyes. Her curls swayed to the side of her shoulders when she tilted her head. “I am sorry to disappoint you too.”

Rowan chuckled. “I want to see how defiant you can be.”

“I have a lot of people, who obeyed me, princess. I don’t want you to be one of them.” Rowan played with her curls. Women in this continent didn’t have these curls and the color of her hair, also her blue eyes. “I am sure, you are not going to fuck me over with your defiance, right?”

Rowan knew that his woman was smart and Zaya wouldn’t cross the line. He didn’t mind her defiance behind the close door. She could defy him as she liked, but it wouldn’t be a wise behavior to display in public.

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