Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 47

Chapter 47: BUT, I DON’T FEEL SORRY
“You are very tense,” Zenith pointed out, and held her hand. It was very cold. He remembered how her hands used to feel so cold. “Do you want to cancel this meeting?”

Dawn shook her head. “No. I want to see him.”

“Okay.”

Currently. Zenith was accompanying Dawn to drink tea in the backyard garden, while waiting for her father to arrive. She looked very nervous and kept fidgeting.

“I thought you were busy.” Dawn recalled Zenith had been spending his time away from the palace quite often, but she didn’t know what he had been doing, since she was also busy preparing for the ceremony.

Zenith didn’t give much of an input, because he always said ‘just do what makes you feel comfortable and happy.’ He would be fine with anything.

True to his word, he would nod to everything that Dawn decided. But at the same time, Dawn felt like he didn’t care about it, despite his confession the other day.

“They are here,” Zenith said. He saw a guard come toward them and inform Dawn that her father had arrived. “I will take my leave, see you at dinner.”

However, the guard then added. “But, Alpha Tony is not alone, he is with Luna Julia and their daughter.”

Hearing that, Dawn felt like crying, not out of helplessness and sadness, but anger. She was very mad, she clenched her tea cup tightly, but Zenith took it away from her.

“You will hurt yourself if you do this.” Zenith put the tea cup on the table. “You can refuse them.”

Yes, she could refuse them, but… “No. Let them in,” Dawn said through gritted teeth. It took everything in her to compose herself.

The guard then went away to get the guests, but unexpectedly, Zenith sat down again.

“I thought, you are going to leave.”

“No.” Zenith poured a cup of tea for himself. “I am here to even the score.”

At first, Dawn didn’t understand what he meant, but then it clicked in her mind that Zenith welcomed himself just like Julia and Emily did.

On the other hand, Emily and Julia cheered when they heard they were allowed to get inside the back garden. This was a private place for the royal family, not anyone could come and go to this part of the palace.

“See? I told you that Dawn is not holding a grudge.” Julia had been pestering Tony to take them with him, because she wanted to apologize to her for everything that she had done all this time. It would also help them to heal and move on as a family.

Their deal was; if Dawn rejected them, they wouldn’t make a fuss and leave the perimeter.

This also came as a surprise for Tony, because he didn’t think Dawn would allow Julia and Emily to come, knowing the bad blood between them in the past.

“I know Dawn is not a petty person,” Emily chimed in. She looked better after her outburst yesterday, though what she said was very unforgivable and Ava was still very mad at her. She didn’t really care about that.

The guard announced their presence and when they stepped into the garden, Emily froze in her tracks when she saw Zenith was there.

The last time the alpha came to their pack, he didn’t stay for long. No, he didn’t even go to the pack house nor did he rest in the room they had prepared for him. Emily also only saw a glimpse of him when Alpha Zenith fought Blake and the latter lost the fight embarrassingly and needed to be dragged out.

But now, when she saw him clearly, her heart started beating so fast. He was very handsome! He was very attractive with this dangerous aura around him, but more important was the fact that he looked regal when he was simply sitting in that moderate chair.

“What are you doing?” Julia nudged Emily, because her daughter didn’t move from where she was standing like a statue.

“Oh.” Emily immediately followed her mother and Alpha Tony.

Alpha Tony was also surprised to see Alpha Zenith there. He was a little bit disappointed, because he thought this would be a family conversation, but he curbed his disappointment and approached Dawn with a light step.

“Dawn, I missed you.” Alpha Tony approached his daughter and was about to hug her, but Dawn still continued to sit, thus he could only bend his body and awkwardly hug his daughter. “Thank you for giving me a chance to meet you.”

Dawn’s body turned stiff, her father’s hug felt very foreign to her, because it had been a while since she had seen him.

“You can sit now, father,” Dawn said, nodding at the only empty chair there.

After her father, it was Julia and Emily, who came to approach her, but Dawn raised her hand to stop them from getting closer to her.

She even felt awkward to be hugged by her father, let alone these two.

“I remembered that I didn’t extend the invitation for them two. I wonder why you think it is a good idea to bring them here to see me after all these months we had not met?”

Tony was caught off guard with the question, but Emily rubbed her belly and started to talk pitifully.

“Dawn, I know that you hate me for what I have done. I know how awful I am…” Emily shed the non existent tears from her eyes. “I fell for Blake’s ruse. He wanted to tear us apart. I am also a victim in this.”

Alpha Tony felt his blood boil when he heard this. How could he be very obtuse not to see this coming? Was this what they called asking for an apology?

“Alpha Zenith.” Emily shifted her attention to Zenith. She fluttered her eyelashes and looked like a pitiful doe. “I am sorry the arranged marriage between us couldn’t happen.”

“But, I don’t feel sorry,” Zenith replied bluntly.