Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 42

Chapter 42: DAWN’S PETTY REVENGE
Dawn expected to see her father, because she decided to invite him for the ceremony, but she didn’t expect to see her father this soon.

Pyro looked at Dawn, as the royal beta, he knew how the relationship between Dawn and her father currently was. He was also well aware of what had gone down the last time Dawn was in her pack.

“Why are you all looking at me?” Dawn asked, she frowned. She could sense the atmosphere shift. “Alpha Tony requested a meeting with the King, it has nothing to do with me. If Beta Jason is also here, it means they wanted to ask about his son.”

Dawn appeared nonchalant, as she waved the box in her hand.

“I am going to make a concoction.” Dawn glanced at Darius and asked him to come with her to help. “Don’t bother me for the next ten hours. I want to get done with this quickly. It’s so tiring to deal with this and the preparation of the ceremony.”

This matter wouldn’t have dragged on for too long if Aurel didn’t interfere and worsened Zander’s condition.

After saying that, she walked away with Darius in tow.

But, once she was out of the king’s bedroom, her aloofness disappeared. She lowered her head, deep in thought.

“Do you want to see your father?” Darius asked. The silence was very uncomfortable for him, but Dawn didn’t respond to the question. “If you want to meet with him, you can just say so to Zenith.”

Darius didn’t think Zenith would let them meet easily though, knowing how he rejected all the letters that came from the Moonlight pack.

“If he wants to see me, he will ask for a meet up.” Dawn hastened her steps. If her father really wanted to see her, he didn’t need to bring Beta Jason with him. Since the beta was here, it meant, their main purpose to come was to ask about Blake.

Once again, her father let her down by putting her second.

Darius wanted to talk, but then he clamped his mouth shut and as he helped Dawn with the concoction, he felt like she got her sweet revenge on him by ordering him around, rendering him unable to talk.

“Focus on your task, if you mess this up, you will put the King’s health at risk,” Dawn said sternly, as she instructed Darius on how to stir the concoction.

The gamma felt like crying, his hand was numb.

On the other hand, Zenith graced Alpha Tony and Beta Jason with his presence. He was sitting on the throne, staring down at the two of them, who were still kneeling in front of him. They couldn’t get up, because the king didn’t say anything.

Therefore, Alpha Tony had to talk in his kneeling position.

And the first thing that came out of his mouth was; Blake. He asked to meet with Blake, because they heard his beta’s son had visited the palace, but had never returned to his inn.

“I sent him to the dungeon.” The way Zenith said it was very casual, as if he was talking about the weather and Pyro, who was standing next to him, gave him a look.

The royal beta had warned him that he shouldn’t create trouble for the king, because it would be Zander, who had to clean up after his mess once he had regained his consciousness and resumed his position.

Yet, Zenith didn’t even give him any acknowledgment of his existence

“What crime had he committed, My King?” Beta Jason was shocked to hear that. He knew that his son had come to the palace to seek Dawn, but what had he done until it caused him to be sent to the dungeon?

“What crime you say!” Zenith leaned his body forward. His eyes narrowed sharply. “Having desire for a woman who does not belong to him and acting on it, it’s considered a crime in this continent,” he said viciously. “Coveting a chosen mate of the royal family member and blatantly seeking the said woman is treason. Do you want me to continue?”

“T- treason?” Beta Jason was stuttering. He was shocked by the accusation. “There is no way… that’s too far, My King! This is a huge misunderstanding!”

“He can be hanged anytime soon for his crimes after an investigation.”

Pyro thought Zenith went too far, too. He took advantage of his position as the king. He wondered why he was going to such lengths just for that woman. Zenith had never been reckless like this before.

“I can explain!”

“Who told you to stand up?” Zenith asked lazily when he saw Beta Jason stand up from his kneeling position and was about to approach him, to give him this so-called explanation. “Talk from where you are beta. Comfortably.”

Meanwhile, Alpha Tony was shocked. This must be the third time he met the king in person, but the aura that he gave off was very different.

The king lived up to the people’s expectations, as a benevolent and kind sovereign, but the man before him was very different from the one he met twice in the past. He remembered the odd golden mask that he used to wear, but it almost felt like it was a different person behind the mask.

“His trial will be scheduled three days from now.” Zenith stood up. He had wasted enough of his time by entertaining them. “You are dismissed.”

“My King!” Beta Jason immediately stood up and wanted to approach the king. “Your Highness!”

However, royal guards immediately stopped him as royal warriors blocked his way from going closer to the king, while Pyro glanced over his shoulder and watched how the beta was mortified to hear his son would go into a trial.

“You went too far, Zen.”

Zenith spared him a glance. “You judged me too fast. You know what it would have looked like if I went too far.”

Pyro pressed his lips. He knew better than to provoke Zenith further, because he could really show him how far he could go.

The least he could do was to wait for Zander to regain his consciousness and let the king clean up after his brother’s mess.

He wondered about the concoction that Dawn was making right now. He was still ill at ease with that woman and wondered how she, as a shifter, was very knowledgeable about poison.

More so…

Pyro stared at Zenith’s back. He had never seen this side of Zenith before. He didn’t know that he could be very caring about his future chosen mate when originally, he wanted to kill her off. What changed?

At the same time, Dawn got additional help when Lance curiously came to the kitchen and she took advantage of this royal gamma to help her as well.

“Ten hours?!” Lance and Darius exclaimed at the same time.

“Yes. Ten hours.” Dawn emphasized her words clearly.

“No. I am just curious about what you are doing, so I came to see.” Lance scrambled with his words, he wanted to get out of this kitchen. He couldn’t imagine himself having to spend the next ten hours here, grinding the herbs.

“Don’t stop,” Dawn said when she saw Lance was about to put down the mortar and pestle. “If you do it wrong, the concoction will be spoiled and it will have a bad effect on the king.”

Lance froze, he didn’t dare to stop.

Dawn smirked. “Do you think I don’t know that you came here to investigate me? You don’t trust what I am doing, right?”

“No.” The answer was too fast for it to sound believable. Lance then cleared his throat. “I only wondered what you were doing here…”

“Don’t stop.” Dawn warned the royal gamma again when he was about to stop, because he was in a hurry to give Dawn an explanation. “The toxicity of the ingredients is pretty high. You can accidentally make a poison instead of an antidote.”

Lance felt like crying, while Darius was too scared to provoke her further.

The worst part was; they didn’t even know whether Dawn was telling the truth or she was just bluffing them and they couldn’t even call her out for it.

And after ten begrudging hours, the antidote was finally done and Dawn was very happy to see the outcome was as she expected, while Lance and Darius were too spent to even feel happy.

“Good job!” Dawn patted the two gammas. “This is what you call teamwork!”

“What teamwork?!” Lance grumbled. “It was us who got it done.”

Dawn didn’t heed with that comment and immediately put it into a jar. “Come on! Get up!” She said happily, because the past ten hours, she only needed to instruct these two gammas to get everything done. “Since you wanted to investigate me, do it properly. Here, take this.”

Dawn shoved the jar into Lance’s hands and then urged them to giddy up.

Cursing and complaining, Lance and Darius got up from the floor and followed Dawn to the king’s bedroom.

“Where did your alpha get this woman from?” Lance asked Darius in a low voice, while the latter could only shake his head.

When they arrived at the bedroom, they found Zenith, Pyro and Aurel were there as well. The healer insisted on checking on the antidote first and Dawn didn’t mind it at all.

Zenith took the cup from Dawn’s hand when she was about to feed Zander. “I will do it.” The alpha then took it upon himself to make his brother drink the entire cup.

“Can you do it gently? You look like you are going to choke him to death.” Dawn grimaced.