Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 44

Chapter 44: BIG REVELATION ABOUT THE KING
After Dawn was full and she had cleaned herself up, Zenith took her to the king’s bedroom. She could feel the guards and warriors’ eyes on her as they walked, as if they were going to dig a hole in her back.

“Zenith, you will create an unnecessary rumor if we walk together like this to the King’s bedroom.” Dawn frowned, she felt like a mistress.

People knew that she had been preparing for her ceremony with Zenith, but for her to walk back and forth to the king’s bedroom freely, it would make people talk.

Dawn looked at Zenith, but she couldn’t see what kind of expression he made behind that golden mask, he didn’t say anything at all either, which caused her to keep her mouth shut.

Once they entered the room, there was only Pyro by the king’s side, talking in a low voice, while Zander looked pale, but was alive nevertheless.

They stopped their conversation once they realized they were not alone and a bright smile appeared on the king’s lips.

Dawn still couldn’t get used to seeing Zenith’s face smiling like that, very innocent and kind, even though in truth, this king was far from his angelic appearance.

“My savior!” Zander exclaimed exaggeratedly. “Come here! I will give you a hug!”

Zenith took off his mask and looked at his twin, his gaze was cold enough to freeze the hell. “Cut the crap.” He threw the golden mask to Zander’s lap.

“You are so mean, don’t you feel happy to see your brother has made it alive?”

Zenith sat down on a chair next to the bed, while Dawn checked on Zander’s condition. His vitals were great and actually, he recovered very fast, even for a shifter, who had healing ability, he healed quite quickly.

Pyro then filled her in about Zander’s recovery and the royal beta actually was very thankful for what she had done.

“How should I reward you?” Zander tilted his head. His eyes softened when he stared at the woman before his eyes. “After all, you have saved the King’s life.”

“There is one thing that I truly want.” Dawn lifted her head and met with Zander’s blue eyes. He was the exact copy of Zenith, but somehow was very different. “Promise me that you will not kill me, harm me or do anything bad to me.”

“Are you still hung up over that? Are you still mad?” Zander raised his brows, he thought she wanted something extravagant, like an exorbitant reward or even the kingdom’s treasure.

“You sent a bunch of rogues to the north and one of them even managed to enter my bedroom to assassinate me, don’t you know how traumatized I am? I want a guarantee for my life.” Dawn shrugged her shoulders. “I don’t think I asked too much. A life for a life.”

Dawn thought Zander would be offended, but she was wrong, the king actually smirked when he heard that.

“I have been thinking about what my brother saw in you. But, now I got it.” Zander tilted his head. “Fine. Now, let’s talk about the poison that caused my warriors to be unable to shift.”

Dawn had been wanting to talk about this matter, since Zenith didn’t want to get involved in this.

“Basically, the poison that was used on you is similar to the poison used on the warriors, but the result is very different.” Dawn furrowed her brows. “Maybe because your body is built differently?” She was not sure with her theory.

“What do you mean?” Pyro jumped into questioning.

Dawn then explained that for a shifter, there was this small bone on your jugular that connected to your wolf, which allowed you to shift into your beast and the poison attacked exactly that area, but only that area alone.

“Yow know that once our wolf spirit dies, our body would follow after, but in the normal process, the body would die slowly, it would take months or maybe years, but because of this poison, the effect is accelerated.”

Dawn then told Zander he should have died after a few hours when he made contact with the poison, but weirdly enough he survived. She wondered why.

“Right. I didn’t check it before.” Dawn stretched out her hand to touch the said bone on Zander’s jugular. However, before she could touch him, Zander and Zenith moved at the same time and caught her hand. “Huh? I just want to check it, because it almost felt like he didn’t have that bone.” Dawn explained herself.

“There is no need.” Zander smiled, he let go of Dawn’s hand, while Pyro was visibly tensed. “I don’t have it.”

Dawn blinked her eyes. She didn’t think she heard him right. “What?”

But, it was Zenith who explained to her briefly. “He can’t shift into his beast.”

Pyro was shocked when the two of them revealed this biggest secret. No one should know about Zander’s condition and the fact he couldn’t shift!

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“People are talking about the upcoming ceremony!” Emily roared angrily at her mother. She was very distraught with the fact that people were very excited about the royal ceremony, since it didn’t happen often and they were very blessed to witness it. “She will be a princess! How can I accept that?! I should be the one people talked about!”

Julia was trying to calm her daughter down, but Emily was too furious to listen to her.

“How can you do this to me!” Emily cried so hard.

Currently, they were inside an inn in the capital city, they came with Tony, who was followed by Jason and Ava, under the excuse that Emily needed to see the father of her child.

“Emily, calm down!” Julia covered Emily’s mouth. She didn’t want Tony to see her like this. She had enough fights with him over Emily lately, but her daughter actually bit her hand. “Argh!”

“If it was not for you, I would have been the one that will have that royal ceremony! How can you do that to me, mother?!”