Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North
Chapter 93: REGRESSION

Chapter 93: REGRESSION

FIRST LIFE

(((ZENITH’S POV)))

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"Zen! I am pregnant!" Dawn said, as she rushed to Zenith. She hugged him so tightly, while the alpha chuckled.

"Be careful," Zenith said, holding her body close to him, she was being reckless. But, his heart melted when he saw her face flush red with happiness, she giggled like a teenager.

"How do you know?"

It would be hard to explain. "I just know. You are my mate after all."

In this moment, Dawn was the happiest Zenith had seen ever since she came to this pack. Her eyes shone brighter and she was full of laughter. People started to notice this change too and warmed up to her as well.

"You will be a father." Dawn blushed when she said that, which made the tips of her ears and her neck turn red too.

"Thank you for making me a father." Originally, Zenith was not thrilled at the idea of becoming a father. That was a huge responsibility, but then he thought having a little child that resembled both of them was not a bad idea either.

Both of them thought this new happiness of having a new member in their little family would last forever, alas, there was nothing such as forever.

Because in the next few months, Dawn’s condition declined again. She started spacing out more often and refused to eat. This was the same sign as before.

But at the same time, Zenith also felt regression in control of his beast. Aurel would still send the concoction from the capital city for him, but it didn’t help much because he needed Aurel to use her healing power in order to maximize the effect of the concoction.

However, because Zenith refused to see that healer again, his control over his beast regressed badly.

"You really need to get Aurel here. You are going to lose it." Axel was concerned about him, so was Darius.

"You are barely able to control your beast even after you slaughtered the monsters in the Untouched Land. The warriors are happy because we didn’t need to go out there for any ’clean up’. Well, that’s nice actually, but that’s not our main focus here," Darius chimed in.

"More so, I can see that she has been acting out again. If the poison came from Aurel, she should be the one who knows what happens to her, right?"

Because Aurel had been out of the picture for so long, there was no way Dawn was still having those episodes. It was either the remnants of the poison acting up again, or maybe she only wanted extra attention.

"If you keep up like this, you are going to end up hurting her and your baby," Darius added.

With the gamma’s last words, Zenith finally called Aurel back when Dawn was seven months pregnant. He had told her about this, but when they had this conversation, she seemed not to be listening to what he said. She was spacing out again...

And it started going downhill from there. Dawn refused to eat and no matter what he did or said, she wouldn’t listen.

At the same time, Zenith couldn’t be as patient as he wanted with her, because his beast was out of control and every little thing upset him. His intrusive thoughts became more and more wild. His violent nature and his instinct as a beast overruled his common sense.

Dawn’s situation didn’t help at all. She kept screaming and throwing tantrums at Zenith and demanded him to listen to her.

"SHE TRIED TO POISON ME!" Dawn hollered. Despite the fact she was heavily pregnant, she refused to eat and spiraled in her negative emotions.

"DAWN, ENOUGH!" Zenith finally snapped, which he regretted almost immediately. "You are unbearable!"

The pain in her eyes haunted him when she staggered back. Zenith wanted to reach out to her and apologize, but his emotions were in turmoil as well. His beast went berserk in his mind and he felt like he was going to explode.

Therefore, instead of reaching out to her, he kept his distance from her.

The rest of the pregnancy, Zenith kept tabs on what Dawn was doing, but at the same time, he tried to investigate the poison that Dawn was suspicious of, but he found nothing. There was nothing. Aurel didn’t even stay in the same place as Dawn. They lived in the pack house, but had never encountered one another.

Later, from Fern, he learned that Dawn insisted on preparing her own meals.

"Let her do what she wants," Zenith said to Fern. If preparing her own food gave her comfort, it was not a big deal.

Zenith had been gathering a few healers to help with Dawn’s condition and for her labor, because he still didn’t want Aurel around Dawn, since he knew how upset she could be at the sight of her.

However, the situation only got worse when Dawn finally refused to eat anything. She didn’t want to prepare her own meals, nor did she want to eat anything other people prepared for her. She was spiraling down so fast.

One day, they had another fight and Zenith lashed out at her, because he was getting very frustrated.

If she kept doing this, not only would she harm herself, but also the baby. Zenith could see how the wolf spirit of their baby got weaker and weaker. The sight of that little wolf spirit curling itself and barely moving almost sent Zenith over the edge.

"If you don’t believe me, I don’t want to see you again... leave. Leave me alone..."

The little wolf spirit laid there, around Dawn’s ankles and Zenith thought he was going to lose his baby. Dawn would be very devastated if she lost their baby because she had been very happy for the little one.

"Fern! Force her to eat!" Zenith said sternly, he stood up and left the room, he couldn’t bear to see his mate and his future child anymore in this condition.

It almost felt like Dawn was ready to die with their baby. Zenith was not going to let that happen.

And what made matters worse was the fact that Zenith was having his own episode at the same time Dawn had gone into labor.

Aurel only returned for two months and the brunt of a year without her power made Zenith’s body have to adjust with it again, thus he couldn’t recover like he usually did even when Aurel was here again.

Hence, he missed the birth of his first son and when he learned that Dawn had gone into a deep coma, he didn’t know what to do.

He asked a wet nurse to take care of his son. Fern, Pyllo and Kynes were overjoyed with the arrival of the baby, especially when he inherited the golden eyes, the symbol of the royal family.

Zenith missed what they were insinuating when they said they were glad that the baby was the alpha’s because right now, Zenith’s mind only focused on Dawn.

He spent countless nights in her room, holding her hand and saying the apology that he should have said earlier.

He didn’t hold their baby, because he was afraid he would hurt him.