Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 98

Chapter 98: THE END OF BEGINNING
FIRST LIFE

(((ZENITH’S POV)))

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Their father was a good king, but there was time when his judgement was clouded, because he was too trusting to his people.

It was not like they would do harm on their father intentionally, but people had their own mind and they had no control of the way they were thinking.

They might think what they had done was for their king or alpha’s best interest when as it turned out, it only brought more calamity than good. After all, people interpreted loyalty in different way.

Their father also once made the same mistake in the past. Too trusting his subject…

“Zaya where are we going?” Aurel asked, she was close with Zaya and every time she returned to Andelus Continent, she would come to visit her and chat with her.

After all, Zaya was Zenith and Zander’s sister and Aurel only wanted to get close to her, thinking of her as her own sister.

“There is someone, who wanted to see you,” Zaya said calmly, as she took Aurel to the direction of the forest, where the Great Shrine located.

For years, this place had never been visited. They didn’t dare to get into the forest without a map, because one could get lost for eternity there. This forest held so much magic, this place wouldn’t allow just anyone to enter.

“Zaya we are going too close to forbidden forest,” Aurel said, she crept closer to Zaya. As a healer, she didn’t hold any magic power, she would be in a great trouble if she happened to get lose here.

“Don’t worry, we are almost there,” Zaya replied, her expression didn’t change at all.

“Who wanted to see me?” Aurel asked, she was more terrified to be in this forest after the sun set, but because this was Zaya’s request, he couldn’t turn her down.

“There.” Zaya pointed at the darkness before them. “That the person, who wanted to see you.” They stopped walking and aside from lines of big trees on their left and right, Aurel couldn’t see anything.

“Who?” Aurel narrowed her eyes, trying to gauge the person that Zaya had pointed out through the thick of the darkness.

At first, it was only a silhouette, but then his figure could be seen, but before this person could be seen clearly under the moonlight, Aurel could already guess who was that.

She shrieked and was about to run away when Zaya created a protection around her, trapped the healer in her magic.

“Zaya! What the meaning of this?!”

Zaya shrugged. “I thought you will be happy to see my brother.” She looked at Aurel innocently. “I want to surprise you, don’t you want to thank me?”

Aurel became frantic. She tried to get away from Zaya’s magic, but she couldn’t. She was only a healer after all.

“Zaya! I thought we are friend…”

“I thought you like my brother.”

Aurel was crying at this point, she was blabbering nonsense, or probably she tried to beg for mercy, but seeing the coldness in Zenith’s eyes, she knew right away there was no mercy for her.

“He is going to kill me…” Aurel then turned to look at Zaya. “He is going to kill me… how can you help him to kill me? We are in the Holy Kingdom… you can’t do this to me…”

“Well, but he is my brother,” Zaya stated simply. But then she approached the barrier and her voice turned cold. “You should think thrice before you messed with my brother’s mate.”

After saying that, Zaya turned to look at Zenith and warn him that she didn’t want to get involved in this.

“Don’t give me more trouble, okay?” She approached Zenith and kissed his cheeks. She hugged him tightly. “I am sorry for what happened.”

Zenith hugged Zaya back briefly. “Take care, Za.”

And with that, the two siblings parted way and once Zaya disappeared, the barrier around Aurel vanished as well.

The healer immediately tried to run away. This must be the first time for her to turn toward the other direction from Zenith.

However, Zenith didn’t have time to play with her, as his claws elongated and they pierced through her chest. He literally crushed her heart.

Aurel kept apologizing, but Zenith couldn’t hear her voice, because all of Aurel’s memories started flooding his mind and now he learned everything that she had done.

He wanted to kill her over and over if that was possible, but he knew the only person that should be blamed was him.

However, the moment Aurel’s blood dropped to the ground and death came to her, something happened. Zenith’s surrounding shifted and the wind became turned very harsh.

This was the sacred land, the forest where the great shrine was, there shouldn’t be a murder here, there shouldn’t be a blood that was spilled.

Zaya certainly didn’t know about this, because she wouldn’t bring Aurel here and let Zenith killed her, because it would put her brother in danger.

Zenith stared at his hands that covered with blood, while Aurel’s lifeless body fell to the ground. The wind howled so loud and that was the last time for Zaya to see him.

Zenith disappeared. No one had ever seen him again, so did Aurel.

Zaya didn’t think much about it, because she thought her brother was only going to hide from the whole world, but years passed and there was no sign of him.

Zander tried to figure out whether Zenith had returned to Ogregon continent, but there was nothing. The two of them couldn’t find anything about their other sibling.

Meanwhile, Zenith was being punished for the murder that he had committed in the sacred land. This torture and pain never stopped. He was no sure whether this was day or night. He couldn’t breathe, it was suffocating, as if he was under the water, but he couldn’t die…

His agony continued for so long, until a hand grabbed him and pulled him out from this misery and the first thing he saw when he opened his eyes was a pair of beautiful blue eyes.

For a moment Zenith was stunned, because it had been so long since the last time he saw her.

“Mother…” he muttered exhaustedly.

The woman smiled and kissed the tip of his nose and once he did that, the pain subsided significantly. For the first time after such a long time, Zenith finally could breathe.

The pain became more bearable.

And the moment Zenith opened his eyes, he was standing in front of a small house. The night was so quiet.

But there was nothing matter because right at this moment, her sweet scent was the only thing that matter for him.

Zenith entered the house. He expected to see her and there she was… she looked different, a little bit older and haggard, her beauty was hidden under the pain in her eyes.

“I came back. I keep my promise to fix this.”

Dawn had been waiting for him, but she had more for him. A silver dagger in her hand found its way to Zenith’s chest.

However, after the endless torture, this pain was nothing.

Zenith pressed the dagger, so he could be a little bit closer with her.