Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 78

Chapter 78: THE TURMOIL IN THEIR BOND
***** Zenith’s first life *****

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***Dawn’s POV***

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Dawn met Fern and she told her the alpha’s whereabouts, the old woman even took her to the room, where it supposed to be empty, but apparently Zenith and Aurel were inside.

“I told you not to bother them,” Fern said, as she stood next to Dawn. Both of them watched how Zenith took off his clothes in front of Aurel, through the gap at the door.

Zenith had his back against them, but there was no doubt it was the alpha, Dawn knew his body well enough to say that.

“You should see this coming. Even after a year of the ceremony, you are still not with a child. What did you expect?”

A year? A year had passed?

Dawn staggered back. Where all those times went? She didn’t remember a year had passed, but then she couldn’t tell exactly how much time had passed.

“Don’t see it if you couldn’t handle it.”

Dawn stared at the gap between the door and watched Aurel came closer to Zenith. That was all she needed to see. She turned around and rushed away like a coward.

The next day, Aurel would come to her like usual. She would give her a cup of tonic to nourish her body, she said, it would be easier for her to get pregnant if her body was in a good condition.

However, Dawn didn’t drink it. She stared at the cup, there was nothing off with the smell. It was the same liquid that she had consumed for the last year.

“I will drink it later.”

“No, you should drink it now.”

“I said; later.” Dawn’s voice sounded very stern, as she put the cup down. “You can leave now.”

Aurel’s green eyes flickered. “Are you mad?”

“I am not. I want to be alone.”

“Don’t you…”

“Leave.”

Dawn wanted to be left alone. She didn’t want to drink this liquid anymore. Something was off. Her mind didn’t work properly. She needed to think hard about all of those lessons that she learned from Lyra.

It was even harder because years had passed and her memories about that time was really clouded.

But a few months later, Dawn managed to figure out what was the tonic that Aurel had been giving her. It was not poisonous, but surely, it contained with Iluptic Mushroom.

“The mushroom will give you an illusion,” Dawn said, she tried to explain this to Zenith, but he looked annoyed with her. “Zenith, you need to believe me!”

“You make a fuss to go to your pack and agreed to your request, but then you make another ruckus about not wanting to go, I don’t mind that, but now you slandered someone else, for what?”

“I didn’t slander her name! She did give me Iluptic Mushroom! You need to ask someone to check on it!”

Dawn was very upset when Zenith ignored her, but what made her scared was the way Axel and Darius looked at her, they looked disappointed and disgusted.

“Enough, luna.” Darius stopped Dawn from coming to Zenith, while the beta followed behind the alpha, walking out of the room. “You can’t talk bad about Aurel when all she has done all this time is help you.”

At that point, Dawn knew there was no win in this argumentation. But, she insisted not to drink the tonic anymore. She didn’t want Aurel to be around her and refused to eat anything that she didn’t make herself.

Until this time, Dawn didn’t talk about what she saw in that room. She didn’t have anywhere else to go. If she was being chased out from this pack, it was the same like death, so she endured it.

They had sex a handful of time after Dawn stopped drinking the tonic and marked on the two years of their ceremony, Aurel left the pack to return to the capital city.

Dawn didn’t know what happened, but Zenith started to warm up with her again.

“I don’t like eating alone, can you come early? At least, having dinner with me?” Dawn asked him one day.

Their relationship improved greatly after three months Aurel was gone to the point Dawn could gather a courage to ask him this.

Zenith looked surprised, but he agreed to come and have dinner with her. He kept his word.

At the time when he was very busy, he would still have dinner with Dawn, even if he had to come back again to finish his work.

At this point, Dawn couldn’t see why people called Zenith as the cruel alpha. She knew that he could be very cold and heartless, but he was not as cruel as people portrayed him to be.

“You are pregnant,” Zenith said casually one night during their dinner.

Dawn almost choked on her meat when she heard that. She just told him about her day and talked about trivial things.

Dawn determined to start a new with Zenith, she wanted to forget what she saw in that room. After all, Aurel had gone. There was nothing for her to be worried about.

“How do you know?”

“I know.”

Dawn didn’t believe that and when the day came, the first thing she did was to look for a healer, but this new healer in the pack told her that she was not.

Feeling disappointed, Dawn told Zenith that he must be mistaken and mentioned what the healer told her.

“I know what I said,” Zenith said, he hugged her from behind and caressed her flat stomach. “Take care of yourself.”

“How do you know this for sure?”

“I just know.”

And just like what Zenith said, a month later, Dawn started to show the symptom and she could even feel it without even asking for the healer to confirm it, nonetheless, she still went to the healer and get the confirmation that she needed.

“I told you,” Zenith said, he put down the report in his hand and caressed her cheek when she rushed toward his study room to inform him about this.

Dawn was happy, very happy. This must be the happiest time for her after so many years of suffering.

But then, she started to feel it again. The side effect of the Iluptic Mushroom. She started to lose track of time again and her mind would go blank, staring at one point for a long time.

It worried Fern and Dawn’s two personal servants.

And on the seventh month of Dawn’s pregnancy, Aurel stepped into the pack again. Dawn felt this chill crept in her skin when she heard about this news from Kynes and Pyllo, who looked very excited to have the healer again.

Dawn became very defensive. She had tried to communicate this with Zenith, but even she herself could tell that her mind was not in the right place and her words didn’t make any sense at all. She couldn’t choose the right words and it sounded awfully wrong.

“She tried to poison me! How couldn’t you see that?!” Dawn was angry. She literally shouted at Zenith. “You want to kill me! She wanted to kill me!”

“Dawn! Enough!” Zenith finally snapped. Dawn had been acting awful again since her early pregnancy and the alpha tried to tolerate it.