The Rejected Alpha's Vengeance

[HAWI]

"What the fuck?" Malika said as she looked at her sister who was staring at Hawi softly. This was just not what either of them had planned, but then the time for recollection wasn't now, at least that much was obvious.

Whatever they had to do, they needed to do it fast because the sun was starting to go down and it wouldn't be a pretty sight to fight for the second night. Sure, they all trusted their army, but with the Russels, foul play was something that was bound to happen.

There was never going to be an easy way out of this, and the sooner they came to terms with that, the easier they would understand the dynamics of the battle that they had to fight regardless of how long they had been doing this.

"It just doesn't make any sense," Hawi said as she looked at Mbali. For someone they had presumed dead for weeks, this woman here looked healthier than they had ever seen.

She looked like she hadn't aged a day and didn't even know of the troubles that were lingering in the hallways. It was somewhat a shame for them to be here at this point, but what other thing could they do in a time when war seemed to be the order of their day?

How the fuck were they to reel this when life was starting to look a lot like love on the sidelines? This wasn't how they had planned for this, but then life didn't exactly come with a manual, right?

Malika had always wished to see her sister again but fuck, the circumstances were just not right at the moment.

There was a lot that Malika felt like she had missed out on and while she was tempted to look into her sister's mind, she could tell that Mbali would kick her ass if she so much as even tried it.

Perhaps she would just wait it out and see what she had to do to make things happen this time.

"I know it is a lot. I am still wrapping my head around what is going on right now. But like I said, we don't have time. We have to get back to Sicario and make things right. And as for Ruru, I'm really sorry about the blade.

"There was no other option left for us. We had to figure out if you both were dead or alive and the easiest way was to trigger her worst of pains. I'm so sorry, Hawi," Mbali said and Hawi just sighed.

What the fuck was she even supposed to make of this? Her entire life she never had to deal with a lot of crazies and yet just five years after her life went to shit, she had managed to change the balance in the realm.

Perhaps that was the higher calling she had always hoped for? Oh, but it was confusing as hell and she hoped that all would be fine.

"Did she… did she say what her worst pains were when you stabbed her?" Hawi asked.

Malika stared at the white wolf as if to ask her what the fuck she was trying to do. Anyone who had known the two of them knew so well that their pains were easily linked to each other. Hawi always knew that but she needed to do it.

She needed to find a way to channel her rage because otherwise, she would lose her mind with them. This wasn't how she had planned to make things right for herself but even hell wouldn't be this wild, right?

"Hawi–" Mbali said as she stared at the woman on her knees. She had always known the complexities that had been between Hawi and Ruru earlier on and she could tell what Hawi was expecting, but a part of her couldn't take it in.

She couldn't be the reason Hawi went back into the place they had gotten her after years and years of battling Hawi's subconscious and fixing her line of thought, it would be too cruel a thing for them but then it wasn't like Hawi was thinking the same.

She just wanted answers. Surely that shouldn't have been hard for them to wrap their heads around, right? After all, life was always going to be as fickle as possible so they just had to live it, no?

"Tell me, Mbali. Was it… Me?" Hawi asked in complete earnest. She knew it wasn't going to matter to their mission since it was the east, but she also had a feeling that this was a past she needed to atone for.

But then why the fuck would Hawi atone for things that happened when she was low in her life? Why would she even consider trying to explain shit that even she had no way of working around?

The past was a bitch, sure but that was the past and Hawi needed to gauge that. Well, that was simply easier said than done, really.

"Hawi, it's n—" Mbali began and Rukiya let out a groan, turning Hawi's attention back to her, like that was meant to keep Hawi from asking the questions again.

It was going to shut the woman if she got her answer and that was the one thing that Rukiya didn't need for her mate. She loved Hawi, whether Hawi was broken or patched up, because that was the girl she had fallen in love with over and over.

Love hurt, but Rukiya was willing to endure whatever the fuck happened as long as she found her way back to Hawi. Hawi was her home and she would be damned if anyone tried to take that away from her.

"Surprise! I'm not dying," Rukiya said enthusiastically, her voice going horse as she tried to sit up, but Hawi wouldn't let her. She had cast every healing spell known to the realm on Rukiya in the silence that she had been in.

She had done whatever she needed to do through the bond that they shared, to the point that she wasn't even surprised that her mate was awake. She was however glad that Ruru was awake because she was losing her mind with the chaos around them.

"I'll kill you if you don't start talking," Hawi said to Mbali, even though her focus was on Rukiya, taking in the sight before her like this was the best of things that could have ever happened to the both of them.

It was a wild state, but then didn't they have a war to fight in the distance or even join their warriors in winning? Perhaps it would matter if an explanation was given, but Hawi didn't care for much.

"Why wouldn't you just ask me if my worst memories had you in them," Rukiya asked and Hawi stared at her, lips sealed like she was scared of the answers she would get from Rukiya.

It was easy for her to take the blame if it came from Mbali, because they had to be honest with each other and Hawi wasn't exactly the most stable of the group. There are things that had to be sorted and they couldn't even deny that this time anyway.
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"I'm sor—"

"Kiss me, baby. I missed you," Rukiya said, interrupting Hawi's apologies, while the Jabali sisters let out a sigh of relief.