Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 96

Chapter 96: NO MERCY
FIRST LIFE

(((ZENITH’S POV)))

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The funeral for their little one came and went by just like that. Zenith was not sure what happened after that, because everything was a blur for him.

He didn’t even remember how many hours he spent by only sitting on his desk, staring at the report before his eyes without understanding a word of it, because all he could see was the gruesome body of his son.

The beast inside him was on rampage, he felt like he was going crazy.

And when he checked on Dawn, the only thing she said was; ‘why didn’t you believe me when I said our son had gone missing? Only if you believed me, my son is still here with me now.’

Dawn only said that single sentence, but he never knew that Dawn came to him to for the second time just for him to look for Rex.

“What’s all that about?” Zenith finally asked Axel. Because he would never put a meeting above the safety of his son.

Dawn didn’t need to come to him for the second time to tell him that Rex went missing for Zenith to look for their son.

Darius glanced at Axel. He knew what happened, but he also knew what would happen next if Axel admitted his error.

“Zen…” Darius tried his best to deescalate the situation, it had been a stressful week and the gloominess had been hanging above their head, but Axel knelt down.

“I am sorry.” Axel took full responsibility of his mistake. He was the one, who turned Dawn away and didn’t take the matter seriously. He was racked by guilt when he realized his mistake had cost his alpha’s son’s life.

“What have you done?”

Zenith looked calm and collected, but one could see it was only a matter of time before his feral side showed its ugly side.

“I am sorry, Zen. I am truly sorry.” Axel then explained what actually happened.

He asked for forgiveness, but he was well aware that he didn’t deserve one. No amount of apology or guilty feeling could compensate for his mistake.

However, after hearing what his beta said, Zenith was exceptionally calm. He approached Axel, who was still kneeling down.

There was one thing that not many people knew about him. Not even his beta and gamma. It was the fact that he could see someone’s else history when he killed them.

Their life would flash before his eyes when Zenith took their life. He would own all the information and thought from the person that he killed.

Only Zander, who knew about this.

“What else you have done?” Zenith asked when he stood in front of the kneeling Axel.

“I am sorry, Zen. I didn’t mean to…”

“I don’t believe you,” Zenith said, he grabbed Axel’s hair and in one swift movement, he ripped his head apart from his body.

It happened very fast, Darius didn’t even have time to discern what he just saw when Zenith came to him and pierced his chest with his sharp claws and crush his heart. There was no retaliation whatsoever from the gamma when his body fell to the ground lifelessly.

Both their memories came flooding in Zenith’s mind. He saw through their memories what Fern had fed them about Dawn to the point they hated his mate.

Fern talked so bad about Dawn, pictured her as an annoying personality and how she demanded all ridiculous thing that they couldn’t afford and how Dawn would throw a tantrum if she didn’t get her way.

This was ridiculous and from Darius and Axel’s memories, Zenith learned something very disturbing that the whole pack had been talking about his mate. The false rumor had spread around like a wildfire, where people believed it even those, who had never met with Dawn personally.

Who had started this? Was this the truth?

His beast took over his consciousness. The only thing that Zenith wanted was the truth. The whole truth of everything. He wanted to know what people had seen, what people had heard and what people was thinking about his mate.

And without him knowing it, Zenith had let loose his beast. He didn’t even try to control it, as it killed everyone that he knew, everyone that he saw. It was a bloody night, where so many people died.

Dead bodies littered on the ground, on the floor, in the corridor, in each room of the pack house or beyond that.

The whole pack was slaughtered.

This was the first time Zenith let loose of his beast and he didn’t have any intention to reign his rage and as the result, the whole pack was slaughtered within a night.

And now, Zenith knew the whole truth. The whole lied.

When he had been scheming those people, who tried to bring calamity to this kingdom, his people had been fabricating lies, putting his mate in a bad light, feeding her with poison to mess up with her mind, but when she reacted, she was the villain.

Fern had been lying to him when she said that Dawn didn’t want to see him. She had been lying to him when she said Dawn hated their baby and there were so many lies that Zenith didn’t realize and not to bother to check with Dawn herself.

Fern worked with Aurel. The healer was the one, who provided her with the poison even when she was not here.

Dawn’s two personal servants also knew about this and they were on it together.

The alpha had been fed with lies by his own people and now, this was the consequences.

Zenith learned the whole truth, but those people, who were responsible for that had died. And now, there was nothing left for him.

Everything was very quiet, eerily quiet when the beast headed toward the sweetness of his mate. It was almost impossible to pick her scent amidst the thick smell of blood, but the beast was able to do it.

Through the crack of the door, he watched his mate was sitting on the bed, unperturbed with everything that had been going on, as if there was nothing could bother her. She was at lost. She was in the world that he couldn’t reach.

Blood dripped from the thick fur of the black beast, the blood of his pack members. His mind was heavy with guilt and the memories of the whole pack. The people he had killed.

And when the morning came and the rage of his beast had ceased down, Zenith shifted into his human form. He walked into the room and approached his mate.

Dawn stared at him with her lifeless eyes. She didn’t even flinch when she saw how much blood Zenith had on him.

“I am sorry, Dawn. I am really sorry…” Zenith said. He knelt down and reached out his hand to grab hers, but she pulled away.

“You killed my son…” Dawn said in small voice, but her expression didn’t change at all, as if she had been chanting this word for so many times. “You killed my son… monster. Monster…”

Zenith knew that his wretched life was beyond salvation. There was no mercy for him…