Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North
Chapter 99: PRESENT TIME

Chapter 99: PRESENT TIME

Zenith was supposed to be dead, but he wasn’t. The divine power protected him and he woke up with vague memories of what had happened in his first life.

All the memories of his previous life did not return at the same time, though. The memories came piece by piece as the time went by.

It felt like a bad dream that would wake you up in the middle of the night, but actually when you opened your eyes, you would forget about it.

Zenith decided not to take Alpha Tony to the capital city for losing a thousand of his warriors, but instead he asked for 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 after a fifteen year old girl, but he had this strong feeling for her... not desire, but sadness...

Only at that point of 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 of past life trickled back into his mind.

He let Fern 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 to ask Dawn himself.

And after asking her, something switched in his mind and as if it were forgotten memories, he started to remember what happened in his previous life, hence, the severe punishment for Fern for a 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, and so did the regret he had for her. The more he remembered, the stronger his guilt turned.

Zenith felt like he wanted to rip his heart apart every time he saw Dawn and offer it to her, 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 near her and chose another healer to check on his mate.

There was no way he would let that woman 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 sitting 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 just 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 make his twin elaborate how he knew there would be a coup during the wedding ceremony.

"Mind to elaborate, please? Sometimes, I feel like you came from the future, because you can predict most of our enemy’s movements." 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 looking at his face, because they looked alike, but not because he hated his brother. He simply hated his own face.

"Tell me." If Zenith could be stubborn, he could be headstrong too. After all, they were cut from the same cloth. "I am not going anywhere until I get what I want."

"It’s a long story."

"I can have my entire life dedicated to listening to your explanation."

Zenith glanced in disdain at Zander’s exaggeration.

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

Though because of the different choices that Zenith made in this lifetime there were a few things that didn’t happen and there were a few changes here and there, 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 wary 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 point to 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 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- boggling 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 slowly. "This is the right time for her to come back home."

Zander grimaced at the thought that Zenith would go extra lengths 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.