Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 66

Chapter 66: THE FRUSTRATION IN HER VOICE
***** Zenith’s first life *****

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***Dawn’s POV***

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Their voices sounded very familiar and Dawn knew that she had heard them somewhere, but amidst her pain, she couldn’t figure out who they were quick enough.

But when they moved closer and their conversation became a little bit clearer and their scents hit her, Dawn gasped in surprise to realize the two people, who were seemingly having an argument, were actually Beta Jason and Julia.

“…I told you not to be so rash!” Beta Jason hissed. He sounded very pissed about something. “This is not the right time!”

“When? When is the right time? It has been more than a year and there is no sign that Tony will return!” Julia was furious, her pretty face turned red. “How much longer will my daughter and I have to wait? That’s our right, as much as Dawn’s!”

“People will give you a hard time if you let them know about this! They will condemn you!”

“Why not? People in the past used to have a lot of women! What’s so despicable about what I have done?”

“The rules have changed. You will be punished for that.”

After that, the two of them walked away. Dawn didn’t understand what they were talking about, but it seemed the relationship between the two of them was closer than what people thought.

However, she couldn’t worry about that matter when she had to be somewhere else. These past few months when Alpha Zenith didn’t come, she had practiced how to sneak into the guest room. He made it easy for her because the alpha used the same room all the time.

Yet, practice and the real thing was not the same. Dawn was caught by one of his warriors in no time.

Thean.

Dawn believed this bulky man with brown eyes was the alpha’s personal warrior.

“You again?” He sounded more tired than angry. “Give it up, girl. You can’t get anything from him.”

“I want to see him.” Dawn could be very stubborn when she wanted.

“You will get nothing even if you see him.” Thean tried to chase her away. “Go back to your room and sleep well.”

“Tell me where my father is, or else…” Dawn gritted her teeth. She didn’t budge.

Amusement flickered in Thean’s eyes. “Or else?” He prodded.

“Or else, I will scream until he comes out.”

Thean rolled his eyes dramatically. “Look. If you really want to know what happened to your father, go and ask that beta of yours. He knew all the details.”

“No. He didn’t.” Dawn frowned. “If he knew something about my father, he would have told me already.”

“Really?” Thean raised his brows, he leaned over and talked in a voice low enough, until only Dawn could hear. “Do you know that that beta is the one, who was standing against your father in trial? He is literally the reason why you couldn’t see your father.”

Dawn looked shocked and Thean felt bad for the young girl, but this was what Zenith told him to do, since he knew that Dawn would come looking for him again.

And when the poor girl left, that was what Thean told Zenith.

“I feel bad for her situation.”

However, Zenith didn’t say anything about that, he looked aloof as usual. There must be a reason why he let Dawn know about it.

“Have Aurel prepared everything?”

“Yes. That’s what she said in the letter.” The gamma waved the letter. “Are we going back to the capital tomorrow?” Darius asked.

“We will go tomorrow.”

Dawn was upset that Alpha Zenith left the pack already, he only stayed for one night. But, when she decided to confront him directly and not leave until she was allowed to meet him, he had never come.

Her birthday went by without a single update about her father and any indication that Alpha Zenith would visit their pack again, all she heard about was his victorious battle against the rogues in the west. The very task that landed her father in trouble.

And today was her nineteenth birthday, the day where she could be considered old enough to take over the pack, because of her father’s absence, but their people were very fond of Beta Jason and Dawn could feel their rejection toward her already.

“It’s your fault that you didn’t even try to interact with them,” Blake said. He looked a bit upset for an unknown reason, even though today was Dawn’s birthday. If anything, even his smiles looked forced.

“I tried,” Dawn said, staring at the candles on her birthday cake. It was already weird to have a woman as the leader of a pack, it was unheard of, but now she had no one to rely on or anyone to guide her about what to do.

She couldn’t get the title, even if she could, it didn’t feel right.

“How can I try to warm up to them when Emily has been poisoning their ears all these years? I know what they say about me. They call me a bad luck bringer.”

“Maybe you are,” Blake said, but he immediately corrected himself when he realized how wrong it was. “No. I am sorry, that’s not what I meant.” He tried to hug her, but Dawn pushed him away.

“What’s wrong with you!?” Dawn stood up. She glowered at her mate. “Do you really think I am a bad luck bringer too?!”

“No. Of course, not!”

“Then why have you been sulking the whole day?!”

Blake tried to say that it was nothing, that it was only in her mind, but Dawn didn’t buy it. She pressed this matter until he admitted it.

“You keep refusing to mate with me! I want to mate and mark you, but all you talk about is that cruel alpha from the north! What? Do you fancy him?”

Dawn narrowed her eyes. “Did Emily get into your head too? That’s something she will say.” She was in disbelief. “I know that you have been talking to her lately.”

“See? You are being ridiculous again!”