Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 99

Chapter 99: PRESENT TIME
Zenith supposed to be dead, but he didn’t. The divine power protected him and now he woke up with vague memories about what had happened in his first life.

His memories of his previous life did not return at the same time. It felt like a bad dream that could wake you up in the middle of the night, but actually when you opened your eyes, you would forget about it.

The memories came pieces by pieces as the time went by.

Zenith decided not to take alpha Tony to the capital city for losing a thousand of his warriors, but instead he wanted his daughter.

At that time, he didn’t know why he had this strong urge to have that teenage girl, which was not appropriate.

Obviously, it was not lust. He would smash his head for lusting over a fifteen years old girl, but he had this strong feeling for her… not desire, but sadness…

By that time, he didn’t know why.

And when the time came for him to take her with him, he felt this strong feeling of regret, only when he touched her that the memories trickled back in his mind about his previous life.

He let Fern to take care of Dawn, because he didn’t remember what she had done in his previous life, yet he felt this urge not to trust her and ask Dawn himself.

At that time, it clicked in his mind and as if it was forgotten memories, he started remember again what happened in his previous life, hence, the severed punishment for Fern for the crime that was not very vicious.

However, Zenith knew how damaging it could be if he let it slide.

And just like that, slowly, but surely, his memories from his first life returned, so did the regret he had for her. The more he remembered, the stronger his guilt.

Zenith felt like he wanted to rip his heart apart, every time he saw Dawn and offered her his heart, but even if he did that, it wouldn’t be enough.

“Dawn…” Zenith called her name softly, he caressed her cheeks and held her hand.

It had been two weeks since the royal ceremony and he marked her, but there was no sign of her waking up. It worried him. He didn’t allow Aurel to get close to her and choose another healer to check on his mate.

There was no way he would let that woman to be around Dawn when she was one of the reasons why he had to go through so much agony and regret in his first life.

Zenith couldn’t do anything to Aurel right now because in this life, she had not done anything that crossed the line.

It would cause trouble for him and Zander if he harmed her, which was very upsetting.

“There is no sign of her waking up?” Zander asked, he approached Zenith, who had been staying in the same position for who knew how long.

The king took off his golden mask and stood behind his twin brother. “How do you know?”

“I know.”

Zander gritted his teeth, he really wanted to shake Zenith’s body to get the explanation out of his mouth, because it was so hard for him to elaborate how did he know there would be a coup during the wedding ceremony.

“Mind to elaborate, please? Sometime, I feel like you came from the future, because you can predict most of the enemy’s movement.” Zander crossed his arms in front of his chest. “Spare me a headache and explain please.”

Zander pulled a chair and sat down in front of Zenith. He hated to see his face, because they looked alike, not because he hated his brother, but he simply hated his face.

“Tell me.” If Zenith could be stubborn, he could do the same too. After all, they cut from the same cloth. “I am not going anywhere until I got what I wanted.”

“It’s a long story.”

“I have my entire life dedicated to listen to your explanation.”

Zenith glanced in disdain at Zander’s exaggeration.

The night where he mated and marked Dawn, that was the same night where Zander executed the plan. They could accomplish their plan faster than they predicted because Zenith knew everything beforehand.

Though because of the different choice that Zenith made in this lifetime there was a few things that didn’t happen and there were a few changes here and there, but the gist of it didn’t change.

Zenith managed to concoct a plan and Zander was amazed by how his brother knew what would happen next or what step that their enemy would take.

Or the exact people, who they had to be warry about, the spies within Zander’s people and so on.

How precise Zenith was with his decision made it impossible for Zander to believe that he only used his intuition. He couldn’t get lucky every time and pointed the right person, who turned out to be their enemy, right?

“You turned back time? How can you do that?”

Zander was in shock when he heard everything. Zenith was right. It was complicated. He didn’t even know that such power existed in the first place.

“Air magic stone.”

“You met father?”

“No. I met mother.”

Zander rubbed his face roughly. He didn’t say anything for a while, because he was in so much shock and he needed more time to discern this mind- blowing information.

“I think we should let Zaya know about this.” Zander glanced at Dawn, who was still unconscious. Her neck was bandaged because the mark was healing very slow. “This is the right time for her to come back home.”

Zander grimaced with the fact that Zenith would go extra length to rectify his mistake for a woman, but then, deep down he knew it was something that his brother would do.

“Yes and send Aurel back there.”

“That’s how you knew about the concoction? By killing her?”

“Yes.” Zenith squeezed Dawn’s hand.