Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 51

Chapter 51: THE TRUTH FROM THE PAST
Julia was mortified when she heard what Emily said. They had never talked about this. Nobody should know about this.

With a shocked look on her face, Julia looked at Tony, the alpha was also flabbergasted.

“No! I have never said anything about it! I have never told her about us! I don’t know where she found out about that!” Julia was in complete denial, until she forgot that her strong reaction was the same as her admitting what Emily just said.

Meanwhile, Alpha Tony stood there, like a statue, he opened his mouth, but there was no word that they could hear. The silence was deafening and one could cut the tension in the air with a knife.

“Did I say something wrong?” Emily gave Alpha Tony a derisive look. “What do you think Dawn will think about you if she learned about this? Do you think she will be able to forgive you for everything you have put her through? Think about that first before you slap me.”

After saying that, Emily stood up, she dusted off her dress and walked away. She glanced over her shoulder and watched how her mother was crying and Alpha Tony didn’t even have the decency to comfort her. He was too stunned to comprehend what just happened.

Pathetic. They were a bunch of pathetic people.

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Dawn woke up the next day with a very bad hangover, she groaned when the light of the sun that filtered through the window hurt her eyes.

“Good morning, drunken girl?”

Dawn frowned, the endearment was not pleasant at all. Yet, when she tried to speak, her throat was very dry, as if she had just consumed sand.

“Drink this first, you will feel better.” Zenith helped her to sit down and brought the cup to her lips. “Next time, stick to tea.”

Dawn groaned, but she kept gulping the fresh water to moisten her aching throat.

“l am not that bad.” Dawn put down the empty cup and was about to fall asleep again, but Zenith put his arm behind her back to prevent her from lying down and this annoyed her. ” No. I want to sleep.”

“No. You need to eat first.”

Dawn gave him a disapproving look and pursed her lips.

“Be good.” Zenith caressed her cheek gently, which made Dawn lean her head into his touch.

And when she realized that, she immediately straightened her body. Thankfully, Zenith didn’t tease her for that.

She must still be drunk!

“I didn’t say anything weird last night, right?” Dawn didn’t remember what she said, but she remembered she talked a lot. She was afraid if she said something inappropriate.

Zenith touched her hair and played with it, before he answered her. “No. You were so cute when you were drunk.”

Dawn was surprised, she didn’t think Zenith would call her ‘cute’, but she was happy nonetheless. She ate her food with a big smile on her lips, it felt great to have someone, who would take care of you.

After that day, Zenith was busy and sometimes Dawn didn’t even see him for a whole day.

However, she knew where he was. There was a day or two, where Zenith would ‘play King’.

Somehow, Dawn would always know when it happened.

As for the problem with the poison, the king didn’t reach out to her to help deal with it, so Dawn just focused all of her energy on the preparations of her ceremony. She had been so busy learning all the etiquette to be concerned about anything else.

This etiquette lesson was a real pain in the ass. Because she would be part of the royal family, it couldn’t be helped that she needed to learn all of this.

But that day, Lance approached her.

“You are here? I thought you were going to attend that man’s trial, did you even know about that?” Lance then drew a conclusion. “I think Zenith has never mentioned anything about it?”

With the mention of ‘that man’ Dawn immediately knew who the royal gamma was referring to.

“I don’t need to attend his trial,” Dawn said. “I have nothing to do with him.”

It was Blake’s own stupidity for coming to the palace, she didn’t have any obligation to cater to him. Good thing Zenith had never mentioned about it.

Lance shrugged his shoulders. “Poor guy, he is definitely going to die.” He then added. “Today your mate is the King again.”

And the trial was attended by the king, which meant, for the better or worse, Zenith could give Blake death punishment without being implicated at all.

“Wait, did the King know about this?” Dawn grabbed Lance’s sleeve to stop him from leaving.

“No.” Lance gave her an innocent look. “The King has been out since two days ago and will only return two days from now.” He lowered his voice when he mentioned this, because he couldn’t let anyone learn about the king’s whereabouts. “More so, Zenith advanced the trial schedule, that man should have a trial two days from now, when the King is here, but as you know…” Lance shrugged his shoulders. “He will be the judge.”

This didn’t sit well with Dawn. “Where is the trial room?”

Lance smiled. “Come, follow me.”

The royal gamma actually felt tired to be a middleman between Zander and Zenith.

Zenith used this moment to give that man a harsher punishment, which was; a death sentence, when he acted as the king, because with this, Zenith wouldn’t get a backlash and be implicated in any form, since no one would relate this matter to him.

However, Zander had read his movement and he told Lance to let Dawn know about the trial just in case Zenith advanced the date.

After knowing Dawn, if there was someone who could stop Zenith, it would be her.

Both of them then went to the trial room, where Dawn saw her father, Julia, Emily, Beta Jason and Ava.

She hesitated for a while.