Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 72

Chapter 72: THIS IS NOT HER HOME
***** Zenith’s first life *****

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***Dawn’s POV***

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“You are overthinking, Alpha Zenith. The decision to give Emily as your mate is not up to me.” Jason looked uncomfortable at the accusation. “But, you can’t just take Dawn away, no matter what, this is still her home. She had never been anywhere, aside from this pack.”

“The home that you refer to is a place where the people condemn her for what her father had done. And as an acting leader of this pack, you did nothing to protect her. You did nothing to protect the daughter of your alpha.” Zenith laid out the truth. “And that’s what you call home? I am sure she will be happy to live far away from your claws.”

Jason was flustered. He was about to say something, but Zenith cut him off.

“Leave. I think Gamma Alex has better things to tell me.” Zenith waved his hand. “I want you to let her know about this, once the storm passes, we are going to leave.”

Jason was not happy with this, but he couldn’t retort the alpha’s decision. In the end, he could only resign himself and do what he was told to do.

Zenith was an alpha and he was a beta, but then, even if Jason was the alpha of this pack, Zenith’s status was still higher than his own, because the alpha was part of the royal family.

“What do you want to say?” Zenith had kept his eyes on Alex for the past few years. It was not easy to get a hold of him, since he was often away because of the problems of the harbor when Alpha Tony was still here. He was in charge of trading.

And now, when Alpha Tony was not around, he was hardly in the pack.

“I think you have said what I wanted to say, Alpha.” Alex nodded politely. “Initially, I wanted to suggest that you take Dawn away from this pack. This environment is no longer good for her.”

“You are well aware of what people say about me, are you not?”

“The rumors might not be true.” Alex lifted his head. “You are right, Alpha. This place is no longer good for her. I hope you can treat her better. I will talk to her and she will understand.”

“Whether she understands or not, she is leaving with me, Gamma.”

Zenith then walked away. If there was nothing more important to talk about, Zenith was not going to waste his time and decided to get something else done instead.

Meanwhile, Lyra stayed with Dawn, the girl was in so much pain because of the rejection and the healer tried to alleviate the pain, but it was not something that she could heal.

Her body was burning and Lyra put a wet towel on her forehead, wishing it would help. “Come in,” the healer said when she heard the knock on the door before Gamma Alex’s voice traveled into the room.

“How is she?”

“She is burning up.”

Alex entered the room and sat down on the edge of Dawn’s bed. He stared at the sleeping girl. Her face turned red and she was in such a bad state.

“Alpha Zenith will take her away right after the storm passes.”

“No. He can’t take her away when her condition is like this.” Lyra furrowed her brows. She felt extremely bad for Dawn. “Tell him about her condition, please. At the very least, she needs to rest for a week. Her condition is already very weak to begin with from all the things that happened in the past few months.”

Alex was not sure if he could convince Alpha Zenith otherwise, but he was going to try. “Let’s see what I can do.”

After that, silence fell between them again.

“Are you leaving again?” Lyra asked and Alex didn’t answer her question, and the quietness resumed, while out there, the storm kept raging.

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“I want to see her.” Blake insisted on leaving, but Ava didn’t even allow him to stand up.

“This is not the right time for you to see her, she has been unconscious after the rejection.” Ava wiped her tears. “Son, it’s Emily that you have marked, not her. You need to stop thinking about Dawn, or it will only hurt you.”

Blake shook his head. He started crying again and Ava’s heart broke to see her son like this. She felt bad for Dawn, but Blake was still her son.

Ava was only grateful that she didn’t need to go through this kind of agony. She was grateful to have Jason as her mate…

But, at the same time, while Ava was comforting their son, Jason looked for comfort from someone else.

“Your daughter is insane!” Jason gritted his teeth. He was in the strategy room and Julia was there with him, listening to him rambling about everything.

“Your son is at fault too here,” Julia reminded him, but when she saw how upset Jason was, she approached him and kissed his lips lightly. “Don’t be so mad. You need to loosen up a little bit. Maybe this is for the best. After all, Alpha Zenith doesn’t have any interest in this pack, with Dawn gone, you can make a petition to step up as the Alpha of the pack. It will benefit the King too.”

Jason fell silent, he watched how Julia kissed his lips, his neck before she started to grind herself against him, she chuckled a little bit when she could feel how hard he was.

“Did Ava neglect you again?” Julia tilted her head, she touched him and he moaned, pleased with her care. “She loves her son more than you. She is really a bad mate.”

“Stop talking about her!” Jason growled. “She is still my mate, I will not allow you to badmouth her!”

Julia was not happy, but she knew better than to argue with him. “You are right, I am sorry.” She then knelt down and started to kiss him down there, while Jason grabbed her hair and shoved his phallus into her mouth.