The Rejected Alpha's Vengeance

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[Hours earlier]

"Do I really have to go? Can't I have someone go? What of you and Dumi?" Queen Kia asked Kadiam who was currently in front of her in the throne room.

She had been seated there, pretty as ever with a mind as sharp as always when the protectors came to her to tell her of their findings. It wasn't what any queen wanted to hear, but then it seemed like this was one that she had to deal with, herself.

It was insane really, how the two protectors had insisted that she go to the human lands and not see someone. What kind of shit was even this?

"Freya Malik Jabali is the best protector of the realm according to the history books. She can go and deal with the nuisance you speak of. Besides, I am the queen, I don't have to be out there," Queen Kia whined to Kadiam.

Of course, anyone who witnessed this would think the queen was strange, but she wasn't. In the palace filled with protectors who would lay their lives for her, Queen Kia only trusted two protectors and those were Kadiam and Dumi.

They had been beside her for years on end to the point that they had developed a cordial relationship, a friendship that was special to the queen and to them too.

"You have to go, your majesty. This wolf has been evading the protectors for over three hundred years. If Malika goes after her, she will hide her and we didn't want that to happen.

"She committed so many sins against the realm and she has to be right to justice. No one in the realm can get to her or even touch her other than you," Kadiam insisted, and the queen stared at him skeptically.

Kadiam had been insistent on this wolf for years and Kia had always refused. She didn't want to be invoked with a wolf who was outside the realm. She didn't care, truly because wolves were free to be wherever they were.

Besides, nothing about the wolf Kadiam was mentioned, which seems threatening. She had killed people, just like every wolf had. She was a rogue wolf, just like all the rogue wolves who had run away from home.

There had never been an instance of this wolf being erratic, which was part of the reason Kia had declined the endless requests by Kadiam and Dumi. However, there was something about it today.

There was a sense of urgency in both the protectors' voices and it wasn't something that Kia had heard for years and years. It was like this was an introduction to the worst of the worst in the realm.

"What is this wolf's name?" Kia asked, intrigued by the insistence of the two people she had trusted in her kingdom.

Granted, Kia knew that there was someone else who was deserving of the seat she was in, she had vowed to make the kingdom better. If ever there came a day for the deserving wine to sit on that throne, Kia had promised to leave the throne to her without question.

It was the one thing she had lived by all these years and with her memory of the past gone, she could only hope that the woman who was meant to sit there was a kind one, because it would be a shame to have a devil on the seat that she had tried to protect.

Then again, would it ever matter even if the throne holder was the devil of the devils? It wasn't like Kia could say no and refuse to get up from that seat, right?

"Rafael. He is with another wolf, Khalif. They are parading as humans, and have been causing trouble in the human hands. Today is the only time we can truly get them because they will be too busy acting like humans to even think that you will be coming for them," Dumi said and Kia sighed.

She could tell that there was more to what Dumi was saying and she couldn't help but feel antsy.

There was something about leaving the kingdom that scared her to the core. She wouldn't admit it out loud, but a part of her was worried about the unknown beyond the borders of the werewolf realm.

When she had taken over the kingdom, Kia had been told of the great war that had seen Sicario and Greyson uniting. She was told of the Savasci knights who were currently in Sicario.

But the people who talked to her about the war had intentionally left out two of the Savasci knights, or traders, the leader of the Knights and the one who gave them so much confidence in life and war.

They knew that shit would get6 fucked if they mentioned the two to their queen, so for all the years they hadn't talked to the queen about those two. Ever.

"Well then, since it bothers you so much, let's get going then. I want to be back before dawn. I have things to do and the Sicario reports haven't reached my desk. Those knights sure are a stubborn bunch, but I will show them who is queen," Kia said and the two protectors stared in silence.

Perhaps it was because they knew the truth, a haunting one that even they were scared of talking about. They had hidden the true identity of the werewolf queen and given her a mask of another, in the face of everyone else.

It was the kind of mask that no one would ever see through, not even Freya Malik Jabali. Perhaps that was also why Malika had been haunted by the possibility that she kept the werewolf queen more closely than she had anticipated.

In another world or lifetime, perhaps, no?

"What about… her?" Kadiam asked, careful not to say anything that could cage the queen's mood. It was a very very delicate moment, one that even got them wondering if they would ever convince Malika to leave Sicario and come switch places with them.

"She's fine. Leave her be. Tell the others to keep an eye on her and make sure that not a hair on her is out of place. Remind them that I will burn a lot of them without question if I find a strand of hair out of the palace alright?" Queen Kia said and Dumi gulped loudly.

The woman in question was the only person that Queen Kia cared about more than her own life. Maybe it was because she was scared of what life would look like for that woman or maybe it was because Kia was protecting that woman with her life.

She had murdered hundreds just because of that woman and if she had to kill the entire realm for her, then she would be a wolf. It was an instinct that she would never let go of and Kia knew that too.

This was more than she had anticipated, and it worried her that this was the first time she would truly be out of touch with that woman. Then again, she would be back by dawn, and that time would find if her favorite woman was still sleeping, no?

"Yes, Your Majesty," Kadiam responded, seeing as Dumi was too scared to let out another word.

"Good, let's get going then," Kia said as she walked out of the throne room, her royal guard following them through the portal that Kadiam had created for her.