Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 87

Chapter 87: THE CHANGE OF PLAN (2)
FIRST LIFE

(((ZENITH’S POV)))

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“Alpha Zenith?” Lyra stood up when she saw the alpha entered the room. The healer had heard about how the plan had changed and now, he was going to take Dawn instead of Emily, which was understandable because Dawn had not been marked yet.

“How is she?” Zenith asked, he walked toward the bed and stared at her sleeping face. Tears still streamed down her cheek even when she was unconscious.

“She is not in a good condition,” Lyra replied honestly. “I don’t think she will be able to go through the storm.”

Zenith didn’t give any respond to that, but he asked her to leave the room, which made the healer felt uneasy.

“Leave.”

In the end, Lyra couldn’t deny his order and had no other choice, but to leave the room.

Being alone with Dawn, Zenith sat on the edge of her bed. This must be the closest he got with her after those so many years.

And here, Dawn was crying again. That little girl, who lost her mother more than a decade ago, was crying again because this time she lost her mate.

Zenith stretched out his hand and caressed her head, but he didn’t say anything. He wiped her tears and then he left the room.

The alpha ignored the request for letting Dawn to stay in the pack until she felt better, because once the storm passed, he requested the most comfortable carriage in this pack to bring her to the north.

She was still unconscious when Zenith carried her in his arms to the carriage and that stupid young man dared to block his way.

“If you didn’t step away from my face this instance, I am going to kill you.” Zenith didn’t raise his voice, but the threat was there. He was not playing when he warned him to get off his way.

Beta Jason immediately dragged his son, who tried to stop Zenith from taking his mate. He reminded Zenith that Dawn was his mate, as if it could help his case and made the alpha stopped taking her away.

This was one of the reasons why Zenith wanted to take Dawn away from her pack as soon as possible, because Blake would harass her. Beta Jason would scheme against her and no one could protect her here.

He needed to take her away for her own safety and so she could heal faster from the rejection. Out of sight, out of mind.

Dawn would wake up a few times, or Zenith would wake her up to eat something, but she was not in her right mind. He didn’t think she realize where she was, because she didn’t even ask why she was in a moving carriage and why Zenith was the one, who fed her.

Once Zenith arrived at the pack house in the north, Aurel had been waiting for him, she came for their monthly ‘meeting’ and also because she brought a letter from the king.

Zander had learned about the situation in the Moonlight pack, he only reminded him about the plan to kill his mate after he mated and marked Dawn.

Zenith threw the letter to the fireplace. “Go and see her condition first.”

“Why should I?” Aurel was not happy because she had to check on that woman’s condition, the woman that would be Zenith’s mate.

However, one look from Zenith was enough to make her relent and went to check on that woman, while Zenith wrote a reply to his brother.

After that, Zenith called for Fern.

“I want you to prepare two girls for lady Dawn. They will be her personal maids.” Zenith didn’t want her to be alone, thus two girls would be enough to accompany her. “I want maids, who are cheerful and obedient.”

“Yes, alpha.” Fern nodded, but then she asked again. “Is she… our future luna?”

“Do what I said, Fern.” Zenith didn’t reply to that question. “Let me know when she is awake.”

Fern nodded her head. She did what Zenith told her to do and looked for two servants with the criteria the alpha wanted. She did that and more…

“Lady Dawn was throwing a tantrum. She wanted to return to her pack and said that she was not willing to meet you, alpha…” Fern said.

“Really?” Darius asked. “She was throwing a tantrum?” As far as he remembered, Dawn had never done something like that. Since he knew about her from all the report that Zenith received.

“Yes. She also…”

“What?” Axel prodded.

“She cursed at the alpha. She hated you because you took her here.”

“Well… I think that’s not really wise decision to take her here without talking to her first.” Darius clicked his tongue. A little bit disappointed, but then he shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly. They were going to kill her after all.

“Maybe she she is still shocked because of the rejection.” Axel tried to reason with that.

“Let her be,” Zenith said.

With that, Zenith didn’t come to see Dawn, because every time, Fern would say that Dawn didn’t want to see him and how much she hated him.

Because of that also, Zenith put distance between them.

That was his mistake for never checking on her directly, since they had never been in a speaking term. The only time they were having a conversation was when the time before she rejected Blake. That was all.

At the very least, in Zenith’s mind, he could give her some peace for not meeting her when she didn’t want to.

It was proven with how Dawn avoided the area that he visited frequently. Seeing this, his beta and gamma were not happy, but they didn’t voice it out. They were mostly annoyed with Dawn’s ‘tantrum’.

Moreover, there was another urgent matter that Zenith to handle. Zander had been sending more and more letters to him, asking about the ceremony for Dawn. He had to mate and mark her, only then they could kill her.

With that, they could stir their plan in Moonlight pack, using Dawn’s death as their footing stone to intervene with the matter in the harbor.

At the same time, they could avoid Zenith from the prophecy, since they had killed his mate before she could kill him.

“We are going to leave to the capital city tomorrow,” Zenith said one night to his gamma.

“Suddenly?”

Zenith didn’t answer that, he was not in a good mood because he saw Dawn avoided him again by walking away from his quarter.

With that, Zenith left for the capital city for three months.

However, three months became half a year and then it turned into one year. There was this main contention between Zander and Zenith, where the latter didn’t want to compromise.

“Did you like her?” Zander narrowed his eyes when he noticed Zenith’s unwillingness to mate and mark Dawn. “Do you take fancy of her?”

“I don’t.”

“But, your action said otherwise.”

Zenith didn’t answer that and Zander didn’t need to be a genius to know what he said was right. “Damn it, Zen.” He shook his head and took off his golden mask. He was speechless. “Now, you are in charge to think of how to get Moonlight pack under our control.”