Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 38

Chapter 38: BURIED NEXT TO ME
They didn’t have any idea what the Brettel flowers were, more so that the plant was actually a poisonous plant.

“Poisonous plant? Are you sure?” Lance’s face turned serious and Pyro glared at Dawn, asking for explanation in this matter, while Darius was alerted seeing how the situation escalated. He moved closer to Zenith and Dawn, just in case things went south.

“Yes!” Aurel nodded, her green eyes blasted with confidence. “Tell me if that’s not a poisonous plant. Do you dare to lie?”

Zenith glanced at Dawn, but he didn’t budge from his position, shielding his woman, but Dawn’s next statement surprised all of them.

“I have never said that the Brettel flower is not poisonous. Yes, it’s a poisonous plant,” Dawn admitted lightly.

“See?!” Aurel pointed her accusatory finger at Dawn. Her eyes widened in disbelief. “She tried to poison the King! This is an act of treason! She tried to kill the King!”

The accusation was very heavy. Admitting that the Brettel flower was a poisonous plant was one thing, but being accused of attempting to kill the king was a serious matter.

“You heard what she said! You need to capture her and throw her in the dungeon!” Aurel was livid.

Dawn didn’t understand where her hostility came from when they had never been entangled in any altercation before this.

“Lady Dawn, please provide your explanation,” Pyro said. He didn’t immediately do what Aurel told him to do. After all, he was the royal beta, he didn’t take any orders other than the ones from the king.

“You should catch her immediately! Why do you need an explanation from her?!” Aurel was being vicious and loud.

“Can you be quiet? You are in the presence of the King,” Lance said sternly, he crossed his arms in front of his chest. He didn’t know what was going on, but Aurel became very vile recently, precisely since she learned that Zenith came back with a woman that would be his chosen mate.

“Be quiet, Aurel,” Pyro emphasized his words when he saw Aurel was about to retort Lance’s words. This time, the healer clamped her mouth shut, though unhappily. “Explain to us, why did you want to give the King a poisonous plant?”

“I am not going to kill him, okay.” Dawn started with this, she needed to make it clear that it was not her intention at all before she explained about the Brettel flowers.

Aurel was right to say the Brettel flower was a poisonous plant, but her knowledge was not enough to tell that a poisonous plant could be used as an antidote too, just like how medicine could be a poison with the wrong dose, the same sense applied to poison as well.

Dawn explained that to the healer. But, while the others seemed to grasp the analogy, Aurel was still obstinate with her own understanding.

“There is no way something like that could happen!” Aurel hissed. “Do you really believe her? Will you let your brother be treated with poison by her?” This time she talked directly to Zenith. “Zen, I know that you are worried about your brother, but it’s a big mistake to entrust his life to her.”

Dawn was upset, she was only here to help. Couldn’t anyone understand it would be very stupid of her if she really wanted to kill the king by using a method so obvious like this?

“So, you think I am going to kill the King?” Dawn stood up, she stepped forward from behind Zenith and faced Aurel directly. “How stupid I am to make it very obvious.”

Aurel smirked when Dawn said ‘stupid’, as if the latter admitted that she was not that smart, which annoyed Dawn.

“You are the one who said it,” Aurel sneered. She glared at Dawn because she was standing too close to Zenith and she didn’t like the sight.

“Yeah, why don’t I stab him directly if I want it to be so obvious?” Dawn wondered if Aurel and Emily met, would they be best friends? “Since you are suspicious of me, you can take care of this matter yourself.” Dawn raised both of her arms. “I am here because Zenith brought me here.”

With that, Dawn walked away, she didn’t want to spend another second inside this room with this weird healer, who thought she knew everything.

And if they didn’t want her help, that was fine with her. She wouldn’t beg to help someone, who didn’t want to be helped.

However, Aurel grabbed Dawn’s elbow when she walked past her to stop her. “Where do you think you are going?! Are you trying to run away after attempting to kill the King?”

“Let me go or I will claw your face,” Dawn said. She felt deja vu, the same thing happened to her back in her old pack.

“Don’t you want to help Dawn? You need to stop them, right?” The gamma looked nervous to know what was going to happen.

“Why do I need to stop them?” Zenith crossed his arms and watched how everything unfolded and Darius frowned when he saw the indulgent smile on the corner of the alpha’s lips, as if he was enjoying a show.

“Do you dare?!” Aurel growled, her grip on her elbow tightened and this made Dawn mad, her claws elongated from the tips of her fingers, she was ready to claw her face when Lance stopped her in time.

The royal gamma held her wrist when she raised her hand, ready to claw Aurel’s face.

However, Zenith moved very quickly, as he held Lance’s hand, which held Dawn’s.

“Let go of her!” Zenith growled. He was serious, his grip on Lance’s hand tightened and you could hear the sound of his bones breaking and the royal gamma grimaced. He was forced to let go of Dawn’s wrist.

Once he did that, Zenith swatted Aurel’s hand from Dawn. He did it harshly, which made the healer yelp in pain, but it was unfortunate for her that the alpha didn’t care about her pain, as he took his woman and walked out of the room.

Darius immediately followed Zenith and Dawn out of the room as well. He glanced over his shoulder and watched how Lance tried to console Aurel.

“So? What now?” Zander asked, he finally opened his mouth when his twin brother had left the room with his people. He pushed himself to sit down and Pyro immediately came to help him. “Can you cure me?”

Zander’s voice was impassive, he didn’t seem to pity Aurel at all when she was clearly in pain. She was not a shifter, thus if Zenith broke her bones when he swatted her hand, she would need to ask another healer to cure her.

“You dared to chase her out, I assume you have come up with something to cure the poison in me?” Zander probed Aurel. His happy- go- lucky demeanor disappeared and he looked almost as cold as Zenith.

“My King, I have been trying to find out a way to cure the poison, just give me some time…” Aurel said, as she lowered her head and stopped herself from crying in pain.

She was the first person who learned about the king’s condition, but because she was not familiar with poison, she didn’t have any idea what to do. She thought the poison could be cured with medicine, no illness couldn’t be cured with the right medicine. Curing poison shouldn’t be a problem, right?

“The plant that the woman wanted to give you is poisonous, My King, I can vouch for that.”

“Didn’t she say it can be a cure too with the right dose?” Zander narrowed his eyes. He listened to what Dawn explained earlier and to him that made sense.

“No. That can’t be. I don’t know what her motive is, but how could she cure your poison with another poison?” Aurel insisted with her theory.

Right now, Zander looked so pale, but his clear blue eyes were so cold. He didn’t want to talk about this matter anymore and waved his hand.

“For your understanding, Aurel, if I have to be buried because of this poison, you will be buried next to me.”

Aurel gasped. She visibly trembled in fear when she heard that and what made it worse was the fact she knew the king would go through with his words.

People out there might see the alpha from the north as the cruel one and the king as the sunshine after the rain, the warm light on a winter night, but you would be surprised to know that the two of them were equally cruel in their own way.

“Yes, My King.”

After that, Lance took Aurel out of the room, while Pyro stayed and talked to the king. “How do you feel?”

“Awful.” Zander felt so much pain, he felt like every movement was torturous, but he didn’t show it. Normal people would have wailed in pain and lost their temper, but Zander endured it well. “Did you get any information from the harbor?”

“Not really.” Pyro scrunched his nose. “But, now we know there is a spy inside the palace.”

“Well, that’s not a surprise.”

Zander expected a spy or two within his people, but the involvement of a dark magic user was the last thing among his considerations.

On the other hand, Zenith had put his mask on, but he was still holding Dawn’s hand when he walked, which made all the guards there glance at them.

“I think you need to let go of my hand, this is weird,” Dawn said in a low voice.

But, instead of letting her go, Zenith pulled her into an empty room.