Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 50

Chapter 50: ATONE FOR HIS SIN
“Zenith, they are so mean to me…” Dawn wailed, while Zenith carried her in his arms. She had been complaining a lot about the mistreatment she had to endure in the last few years. “They destroyed my mother’s mementos and my father didn’t even stand up for me… hiks, hiks.”

The corridor echoed with the sounds of her sobs, while the guards there tried so hard to appear not affected by this strange sight. Yet, the alpha’s focus was only on the woman in his arms. He nuzzled her nose and hugged her tighter.

“What have you done to the lady until she is crying so badly like that?” Zander appeared from the opposite direction and Zenith chose to turn to his left, taking the furthest path to his quarter, just to avoid his brother.

“Hey!” Zander immediately rushed toward Zenith and walked beside him.

“You shouldn’t be seen with me,” Zenith said, grumbling because Zander took a closer look at Dawn.

“She is drunk,” Zander pointed out the obvious. “How can you let a lady drink until she is like this? You are not a good man.”

“I have never said I am.” Zenith hastened his steps, but his brother annoyingly kept up with him. “You shouldn’t be seen with me.”

Zander ignored that too. “What should I do to her mate?”

“He is not her mate.”

“His ex mate.” Zander corrected himself, but Zenith glared at him. “To that man.”

“Do whatever you please, I want him to stay away from my mate.” This time Zenith quickened his pace, but Zander didn’t follow him.

The expression behind the mask was hidden, thus no one could tell what was inside his mind when he stared at his brother’s retreating back.

After some time, Zander turned around and left.

Meanwhile, Zenith laid Dawn on the bed, she looked exhausted from all the crying and rage that she felt inside.

“Sleep, my sweet Dawn. I hope you have a good dream.” Zenith watched how a tear slid down her cheek and then kissed it. “I love you, please, don’t forget that.”

Zenith kissed the tip of her nose and then her lips. He loved her scent that was reeked of alcohol, it made him groan and want to devour her for himself, but in the end, he only rested his head against hers and hugged her in his sleep, while Dawn would occasionally wake up and sob, Zenith would pat her back to alleviate her pain.

Words wouldn’t be able to describe how much he wanted to give her everything and stop her pain.

This was his regret, this was his remorse and he had to atone for his sin now…

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Alpha Tony was furious with Julia and Emily, words couldn’t describe how he felt about it.

“You should shut your mouth!” Alpha Tony raised his voice, people could hear him from the other room, but he couldn’t care less about his image anymore. Dawn rescinded the invitation and he was not only able to fix his relationship with his daughter, but he actually ruined it even further. “I shouldn’t have listened to you! I shouldn’t have let you come with me and angered her even more!”

“Please, lower your voice…” Julia begged him. She was crying now, she felt embarrassed more than anything else.

On the other hand, Emily didn’t say anything, she watched how everything unfolded, but there was no remorse on her face, because there was nothing for her to regret.

“And you!” Alpha Tony pointed his finger at Emily’s face, which made her frown. “Stop throwing yourself like a whore at Dawn’s man!”

“Tony!” Julia screeched, the word was too vulgar and rude. “How can you say that to your daughter?!”

“She is not my daughter!” Tony roared back.

But, with this, the pieces finally fell into the right place, it dawned on him how his daughter felt whenever he mentioned Julia and Emily as her mother and sister.

Now he knew how it felt when your words and feelings were being ignored. He was standing in Dawn’s shoes now when Julia kept insisting on himself addressing Emily as his daughter, when that ungrateful thing had made it more than clear that she didn’t see him as a father.

Tony wanted to scream, he wanted to fight someone to let out the steam. He needed to leave, or else, he was going to hurt someone here.

However, as usual, Emily didn’t know when to open her mouth, because when Tony was about to leave, she decided it was wise for her to hurl the facts to his face. In her mind, this was her revenge for his degrading words earlier.

“Dawn is right about you, father.” Emily watched how her mother tried to stop her from talking, but she didn’t care about that and continued. “You have never admitted to your wrongdoings and instead of owning up to your mess, you keep blaming just anyone around you.”

“Emily!” Julia was mortified when Tony stopped walking and turned around, his eyes overflowing with wrath. The alpha’s anger was something else entirely.

“You can refuse to bring us and stand your ground not to allow us to follow you, yet you were the one, who decided it was the best idea for us to reconcile with each other and start to be a family again.” Emily gritted her teeth. “But now, when your decision didn’t work, you turned around to blame us.”

Tony couldn’t believe what he was hearing. Emily and Julia literally begged him, pleaded with him to take them, they haunted him until he gave in, but now they blamed him for his decision?

Tony didn’t know what came over him, but he was seeing red and when he realized, he had slapped Emily so hard across her face.

“Tony!” Julia scrambled to get to her daughter, who fell to the ground.

“You are just like your mother, a whore.” Tony grinded out the words.

But, Emily had lost her mind when she chuckled. “You call my mother a whore, is it because you failed to save your mate busy sleeping with her?”