Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 79

Chapter 79: THE BIRTH OF HER SON
***** Zenith’s first life *****

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***Dawn’s POV***

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“You are unbearable!” Zenith had enough of her. She had been acting very weird lately. He had checked everything and it was good. Aurel even left the pack and she was still acting crazy. He didn’t know what to do with her anymore. “It’s enough!”

Everything was bottled up in within him.

“Zenith…” Dawn staggered back, she fought back her tears, her whole body was trembling. She thought they were fine. She thought they finally were in the right track. But, what was going on now?

Dawn couldn’t remember most of her time and during those fuzzy memories, she felt time slipped through her fingers. She couldn’t tell what she was doing for a whole day.

She felt like she woke up in the morning, but then it was already morning again the next day.

Dawn checked her food and everything, she remembered her lesson with Lyra about poison, thinking it must be Illuptic mushroom again, since Aurel had returned. But, that was not the case.

She prepared her own food, checked what she drank, but she found nothing.

Dawn felt like she was going insane. She refused to eat and drink anything one day, but this only enraged Zenith.

“Are you going to kill yourself and the baby?!” Zenith snarled at her. “If you wanted to die so badly, go and die alone!”

Dawn was nine months pregnant, she was waiting for her delivery, but she felt even more awful. She refused to eat and drink. She was still adamant that they poisoned her.

“Zenith, please… please believe me… they poisoned me.” Dawn was very weak. She wouldn’t be able to push the baby if she kept this way. She was going to die during the labor with her baby.

“You have checked everything yourself! You prepared your meal and checked your drink, what else do you want!?” Zenith grabbed her arms. He shook her weak body. “I sent Aurel away because you said she poisoned you, but you still like this even without her presence!”

Dawn couldn’t find any justification for her action, because she couldn’t find the resource of the poison either. She couldn’t accuse Aurel too, since they had never encountered each other ever since she returned.

“Please, believe me, Zenith… please, believe me…” Tears streamed down her cheeks, she didn’t even have the energy to cry. “If you don’t believe me, I don’t want to see you again… leave. Leave me alone…”

“Fern! Force her to eat!” Zenith said sternly, he stood up and left the room, while Dawn laid on her bed lifelessly. The life left her eyes. She looked like she was ready to die with her child.

However, Zenith would never allow that to happen.

The next few days, Dawn still refused to eat and her condition was worsening, it forced Zenith to come and see her again.

“I don’t want to eat, they poisoned my food…” Dawn whimpered weakly. If it was not for the healer, she and the baby would have died by now.

“EAT!” Zenith was frustrated, he forcefully shoved down the food down her throat, but Dawn retaliated, which caused her to vomit.

Aurel was called, but Dawn didn’t want her to touch her, thus another healer came into the room. Zenith knew about the bad blood between Dawn and Aurel, thus he prepared five more healers in the pack.

The healers took care of Dawn, while Kynes and Pyllo cleaned her up, once she was already clean and had a little bit energy to stay alive, they left Dawn with the alpha.

Zenith didn’t say anything for a long time and Dawn refused to even see him.

“What do you want, Dawn?” Zenith finally cracked the silent between them. “What do you want me to do?”

But, there was only silence that answered his question and Dawn condition became even more concerning on the day of her labor.

Aurel and five more healers were there to keep her and the baby alive, since Dawn didn’t have any strength to push the baby out of her body.

She seemed to determine to die with her baby.

It was a bright day and at first, there was no sign of her was going to give birth, but later at night, she started to feel the pain and everything went so fast when Kynes notified the healers.

“Where is Zenith?” Dawn asked amidst this excruciating pain. “Where is he? I want him…” She was afraid, she was scared, she wanted her mate to be there, but Fern and the other ignored her request. They didn’t even care about her, their main focus was on the baby. How to keep the baby alive.

Dawn could die for all they cared.

“Please… where is Zenith? I want him… ah!” Dawn cried, the pain was unbearable and she was having a hard time to breath, she was going on and out of her consciousness, she heard what they were saying and thinking this was it.

She thought, she was not going to see her baby.

“Leave her! Focus on the baby only!” Aurel snapped at one of the healers, but she retorted.

“We need to keep her awake! The baby could die too!”

Aurel clicked her tongue, annoyed. But, she was thrill that Zenith was not here.

It was the most grueling four hours for Dawn, the pain and the suffocation were unbearable. She felt like she was being under the water and when she just found her peace, she was brought back to reality and the pain was the first thing that hit her. This anguish feeling was more terrifying than anything else Dawn had endured.

In the end, she couldn’t keep calling for Zenith, she didn’t have the strength and also because she accepted the fact that he wouldn’t come for her.

After hours, finally they heard the cry from the baby. It was weak, you could tell that the baby needed more attention, since he didn’t sound healthy at all.

“My baby…” Dawn blinked her eyes, she tried to gain her consciousness, but the darkness came and this time, no one pulled her from under the water. She was drowning. The pain subsided and the light faded away.

Dawn didn’t know how long she had been unconscious, but when she woke up, everything was still the same, except for her stomach. It was flat now.

“My baby…”

That was the last and the first word Dawn said before and after she fell unconscious and then woke up.

Pyllo came to her bedside and tend to her. She looked haggard and didn’t dare to look at Dawn in the eyes.

“Where is my baby?” Dawn asked, she ate her food. She couldn’t care less if she was being poisoned now her baby was no longer relied on her. More so, she couldn’t find the poison in her food.

“Your baby is being taken care of,” Pyllo then told her what had happened when she fell unconscious for two months.

Apparently, the alpha got a wet nurse to take care of the baby and the healers would come constantly to keep her alive.

“I want to see my baby…”

“I need to ask for the alpha’s permission first.”