Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 264

Chapter 264: THE TEA PARTY
Addie wanted to curse out loud. Of course, she was angry! She was mad! From Addie’s point of view it almost like Zaya was holding back from burning the entire place down, which was nice of her though…

“How many?”

“There are fifteen women.”

And now, fire surrounded them. It was small circle that burned the grass, creating a barrier around them. Addie had to take another step back, he considered to call for the guards, but then he didn’t think that was a wise decision to do.

People had been talking about the fact that Zaya was a witch and stared a rumor that the king was bewitched by him, if they saw what happened, it would only ruin Zaya’s name even further. No matter what, he couldn’t add to the rumor.

More so, the king didn’t say anything. Addie could only pray the king would be fine. A woman’s wrath was scary…

“So, how many women you have been sleeping with?”

Addie felt his heart lurched to the ground. He chanted in his mind for the king to lie to her. To not aggravate her even more.

However, Rowan seemed to determine to kill himself.

“I am not sure. I lost count.”

Addie covered his mouth dramatically, gasping. “Heaven, it’s over…” he watched with horror in his eyes when Zaya stood up, but the fire around them suddenly extinguished and she walked closer toward Rowan. Her blue eyes turned darker.

Addie swore, he would choose to go in that battle with monsters rather than facing Zaya’s wrath.

“Did you father any child?”

“No. That I know of.” Rowan corrected himself. “I am sure I don’t father any child, or else there would be a woman came forward with a baby.”

He was the king now, who didn’t want to have the king’s child?

“Fuck you, Rowan!” Zaya hissed viciously.

“You are cursing,” Rowan pointed out. “I think I became a bad influence on you.”

Zaya glared at him and then turned around. She stormed away and when Rowan was about to catch up to her, she created a barrier that prevented him from coming closer to her.

“I told you, you should have lied.”

“No.”

Rowan watched Zaya disappeared at the corner. She was furious and it was obvious.

“She is going to burn down the palace.” Addie grimaced.

Rowan touched his chin. “What do you is the way to calm her down?”

“How should I know?

***

Zaya was in a very bad mood right now, she felt like she wanted to fight someone and because of that, she went to the training ground for the magic user and spar with them, since the tea party would be held in the evening.

Alice noticed her bad mood and when she asked about it, Zaya didn’t say anything.

“You look like you wanted to kill someone…” Alice pointed it out.

“Not someone, maybe fifteen people.” Fifteen or maybe sixteen women including the Dowager Queen to be precise.

Alice raised her brows, but she didn’t dare to ask further when she saw the storm on her expression.

But, even after her training session with the other magic users, Zaya didn’t feel better at all. She was so mad.

“No. let my hair loose,” Zaya said. She knew that her hair attracted attention, even so the color. She used to tie it because she didn’t want them to look at her differently.

Probably deep down, she wanted to be accepted by these people, because no matter what, she would rather to have a peaceful life than the one with constant hatred and felt unaccepted.

But now… hell with those people.

She was different and would she want to be the same like them? Why would she care what they were thinking about her when she didn’t do anything wrong? She was proud of her bloodline and her ability to use magic. Their opinion shouldn’t deter her and make her felt less than them just because she was different.

Zaya was wearing her dress. The style of the women dress in this continent was different from Ogregon and Andelus. Before, she tried to blend by wearing the dress that Rowan had prepared for her, but right now, she was wearing the dress that she liked.

The dress from this continent didn’t show much skin, it looked very modest, in which it would cover your neck to your wrist and with dull color of grey or deep red, something that you would only wear when you didn’t want to attract attention.

However, Zaya was wearing yellow color. This color complimented her hair perfectly and had a V neck, which showed her beautiful collarbones. It didn’t show much skin, but you could see how beautiful this dress was when the fabric was very soft. It looked like they made of fairy wings.

It was different from the fabric that the women here used for their dress. The fabric was heavy and thick. It made you look so rigid when you walked around.

“Princess, this…” Mary wanted to voice out her disagreement, but she couldn’t get the word out of her mouth.

The only time Zaya was wearing the dress that she brought from Ogregon was in her first day here, but it was because Rowan had not yet sent a few dresses for her.

“What? Don’t you think it’s beautiful?” Zaya twirled in front of the mirror and looked at her own reflection, satisfied. She had been suffocating inside those heavy materials and this, her silky dress allowed her to breath.

Zaya auburn, long hair reached her hips, the curls made her face looked smaller and they bounced on her back whenever she moved. She liked it. She got those curls from her mother and she loved it.

“It’s…” Mary gulped down. “I think it doesn’t suit the style of this kingdom.”

“I don’t plan to suit the style of this kingdom, Marry. I didn’t born and grow up in this kingdom, I will not pretend that I belonged here when all the people here thought of me as an outsider.”

Zaya turned around and watched Marry, Inez and Leah lowered their head. She was right with what she said.

“Is the carriage ready?” Zaya asked, she walked toward the door and the three of them followed from behind, telling her that the carriage was ready.

It was only Inez, who came with Zaya, since she was only allowed to bring one of her personal maids. Mary wanted to go with her, but she chose Inez. She was the youngest and looked more naïve than Leah.

From the look of it, she just joined in and Zaya was right.

“I entered the palace six months ago and I am lucky to serve you, princess,” she said in small voice. She had freckles across her face and she had a dimple on her left cheek when she smiled. Zaya liked her.

“Here, take this,” Zaya said, she fished out something from her pocket. It was a ring. There was nothing important about this ring, only a piece of jewelry that Zaya owned and she had a lot. Zander made sure she had a lot of these things, to show the people here that she was not less from them.

Inez’s eyes opened wide when she saw it, she gasped but then she shook her head fearfully. “I can’t, princess, I can’t accept it.”

“In my homeland, refusing a gift considered as a rude gesture,” Zaya said, feeling slightly bad because she pressured her, but then she didn’t do anything bad. At least, not yet…

Having people on her side was important when you were in foreign land and the quickest way to get them was by giving a gift.

“But, I can’t, princess. This is too much for me.”

Just like the other maids, she must have grown up in poor environment. Being able to join in the palace was already an achievement for her, therefore this simple ring must be too extravagance for her.

“I am very satisfied with how you took care of me, you learned how to do my hair well. Take it, this is a gift.”

Inez was the one, who learned how to do Zaya’s hair and even tried to style it differently.

After some hesitation, Inez finally took it, but along their way to the queen Katerina’s palace, she kept glancing at Zaya, holding at her ring in her pocket. Her lips curled into a small smile.

Zaya could feel Inez’s eyes on her, she tried to make it less obvious, but needless to say, she was not good at it.

Zaya knew that she was waiting for an order, even in this continent, people like Inez knew that a gift didn’t come for free. There must be something that she needed to do for their master and it could bring them more privilege and more gifts to be their master’s trusted person.

However, Zaya pretended she didn’t see that. She would use Inez when the time was right, but not now. She wanted to be close with her first, to gain her loyalty, because if a gift could buy her loyalty, then anyone could do the same.

That was not Zaya’s goal… she was playing a long game here.

Fifteen minutes later, they finally arrived at queen Katerina’s palace. There were a few carriages outside, which meant, all of the guests had arrived.

Zaya didn’t have any intention to come early, but she didn’t come late too. The fact that everyone was already here, she assumed she was given the wrong time. Well, she didn’t really care.

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