Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 71

Chapter 71: THE SEVERED MATE BOND
***** Zenith’s first life *****

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***Dawn’s POV***

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“You marked someone for heaven’s sake! How are you going to fix that?!” Dawn roared. She was so mad, her claws elongated. She had this urge to claw his stupid face, to make him stop apologizing to her and saying that he could make it right for her. “You are a piece of trash!”

Blake knelt down, he grabbed her hand and refused to let go, begging her for a second chance relentlessly.

“Please, please, Dawn… I am sorry. I am sorry, give me a second chance, there must be a way to fix this.” Blake looked pitiful and it irked Dawn even more. “It’s your fault, too. You didn’t give me enough attention. You ignored me for so long…”

The audacity of this man was appalling. Even when he begged for forgiveness, he still found a way to shift the blame on Dawn.

“My father, whom I looked up to, the person, who I always thought of as someone remarkable, was actually a piece of trash, who betrayed my mother’s trust and the mate bond they shared. He had a daughter with that woman and his other daughter had been torturing my life for years and now you slept with her just like my father did with her mother.”

Dawn really wanted to laugh at the irony. It felt like a vicious circle.

“If my father had a son, I am sure, he would be just like you.”

There was no turning back from this, not only did this stupid mate of hers have mated with Emily, but he had actually gone all out and also marked her.

Blake’s face turned red with embarrassment, he could see the disappointment on his father’s face and the sadness in his mother’s eyes. Dawn didn’t need to kick him while he was down and humiliate him even more.

He had apologized to her, begged her on his knees, what else did she want?

“If only you had given in, if only you had let me mate and mark you, all of this would not have happened!” Blake said sharply. “You are at fault in this matter, too. Don’t put all the blame on me!”

Dawn had enough, she gritted her teeth, her anger surpassed her heartache and disappointment. She stared incredulously at this pathetic man and before anyone could stop her, she said the words.

“I, Dawn Attiana Ash, reject you, Blake Michael Gillian, as my mate. May the bond between us be severed for good.”

A burning sensation washed over them before the pain followed. The agony when the sacred mate bond was broken was something that they had never felt before.

There was really no going back for them after this.

“Dawn!” Blake roared, as he felt this sharp pain in his chest and curled his body up on the floor, gasping hard, trying to breath with so much difficulty, he felt like he was being burned alive. “Dawn! No!”

Dawn staggered back, she couldn’t stand still, this pain was ten times sharper than when she found out about her father’s infidelity and Emily’s birth origin.

Ava cried, as she rushed over to comfort her precious son, while Beta Jason looked at them grimly. It was really embarrassing for him, especially in front of Alpha Zenith.

Thankfully, before Dawn could lose complete control over her body, Darius had stepped forward and caught her.

“I think you need to get some rest,” Darius said, looking concerned. He didn’t expect this kind of drama on their way here to fetch Zenith’s chosen mate.

“I will take her to her room.” Lyra immediately volunteered and helped Dawn leave the premises, while Blake was still wailing, calling Dawn’s name and refusing the rejection.

On the other hand, Alpha Zenith still looked aloof as usual, only his brows were slightly furrowed, showing how much this drama wasted his time.

“Beta Jason, we need to talk.”

Zenith walked ahead with the Beta following behind him, but Gamma Alex also left with them. It seemed he expected what conversation they would have.

“You don’t need to come.”

“I am part of this pack, as much as you are.”

Jason narrowed his eyes, but he didn’t argue with Alex. The three of them finally stopped on the balcony that overlooked the sea in the distance. If only it was not a storm out there, the scenery would have been beautiful.

“Should we find a more comfortable place to talk?” Jason frowned, because the wind was howling and the sky looked very grim, as if monsters were lurking behind the gloomy clouds.

“Let’s make it quick.” Zenith let the rain splatter on to his cloak. “I am not going to take a marked woman as my chosen mate.” He halted for a while. “I will take Dawn.”

Jason gritted his teeth. He had expected this request. But, of course, there was a reason why he didn’t give him Dawn in the first place and suggested Emily instead. It took him great efforts to convince Tony to do so when he visited him in the royal dungeon.

But, everything that he had worked for was now in shambles, because of that stupid son of his!

Alex said nothing, while Jason tried to find a way to turn Zenith down. “Alpha, you saw yourself, Dawn is not yet stable because of everything that happened to her, you can’t take her from this pack right now. She will be even more devastated to be away from her home.”

“It’s funny to think that you give her a home.” Zenith crossed his arms. “You intentionally put her half sibling close to her, let the people in this pack tarnish her name, gave her no leg to claim her birthright as the alpha of the pack even when she came of age. Your own son even betrayed her.” Zenith was very calm, while the storm continued to brew in the background.

“Alpha, the truth is not like that.”

“Or, are you afraid that I will take over this pack, because she is supposed to be the heir of your Moonlight pack?” Zenith smiled. “The King wanted to humiliate me by giving me an omega, but I got a pack instead.”