The Rejected Alpha's Vengeance

[HAWI]

For a moment where everything went still. No one knew what had happened and they started to concussion as the treaty settled in on them. This was never supposed to happen and yet somehow it had, making the knights stare angrily at Nikolai Russel.

"What the fuck just happened?" Rukiya asked when she heard Mbali let out a scream of horror as the poison spread through her body fast. She was growing weaker faster than any person who had ever been poisoned and goodness it was like Mbali didn't have any defense mechanisms in her body.

The poison was reading and if they didn't act fast, they would lose her and it would be the worst thing that could ever happen in the realm, other than the loss of the Sicario family.

This would be catastrophic because then they would have a protector who was turned into an assassin and she would burn everything down. Malika would wipe off any life in the real world and when she was down she would take her own life, leaving the entire realm nothing but a desert with no life.

"Impossible," Hawi said as she rushed to Mbali, and started trying to get the poison out of Mbali's body.

Mbali was a warrior. She was born of the Jabalis so there we just no way that this was happening to her. Hawi was dumbstruck because she had never imagined that she would lose someone that she loved and cared about like this.

It wasn't fair and no matter what the world would say about it, she wasn't about to lose the woman she had traded with her life. Mbali was there for her when she wanted to be alone and away from the chaos that came with being an alpha.

They had always fought and while they never shared any memories with each other for even special moments back then, they shared a loyalty, the kind that not even the books of the old could ever get in between.

Hawi wasn't about to let all of that fade. Besides, what use was her magic if she couldn't use it to save the people she loved the most?

What was the point of it all when her life was slowly fading and that of her friends was being turned into the worst of all chaos then? What would be the point of the years she had fought to get to this point?

They were close, so close to the end of their misery and the fact that this was happening right now wasn't fair, at all. This was not what the deities were supposed to do and boy was it heartbreaking in so many ways.

"What the hell is she doing?" Nik asked with a laugh as he watched me look around them. It was almost like the protector wasn't even focused on her sister, instead she was seeking someone out, or something.

Maybe this was the only way for Malika to figure out who the fuck had forced Mbali's defenses down because Malika knew that no one would ever be able to do that unless they had a way.

It was impossible for the regular wolves and Lycans or anyone else. Hell, even Hawi wasn't able to break through the protection spell Malm had with her sister and that only left Malika with one person in mind.

Oh, she hoped not, because if it was who she was thinking of, then Malika would commit a murder right here and now, and it wouldn't be Nikolai's head this time.

"Your sister is dying, Malika, why aren't you focused on her?" Rukiya asked again, seeing as Malika wasn't even pissed that Nikolai was asking shit when he was the one who had hurt his sister.

The usual Malika they knew of would already have been on Nik's throat, demanding a cure or even bring the man to give the reason why he had tried to hurt her sister, but she wasn't bothered.

Hawi was the one trying to figure out what the fuck she needed to do. Hawi's magic was working slowly on Mbali but it wasn't as efficient and that frankly horrified Hawi, because this had never happened.

This wasn't the way she was about to lose one of the people she loved the most. Not like this and certainly not because a bastard had decided to mess with her people.

"Dammit," Mbali cursed as she fell to the ground, limp. Hawi had been checking her, but then Mbali's body hitting the ground was not what she had anticipated and that riled Hawi.

Especially when she realized that Malika had been too preoccupied to even see for herself that her sister needed her.

This was strange as hell but Hawi wasn't in the mood to sit by and try to figure it out when she could get the sister to step up and be there for Mbali. The warrior deserved any better than they were giving her.

"What the fuck are you looking for?? Your sister is poisoned!" Hawi shouted at Malika to snap her out of her trance but Malika was still looking around. She was frantically smelling things, like she knew there was a role to this.

Ruru didn't know what was scarier; Mbali acting like there was more or Hawi being worried since for Mbali to the point that it seemed like her functionality was triggered in ways that no one would ever understand, not even Rutu herself.

Malika could hear Hawi. She was a desperate royal protector who couldn't protect her sister. The thought of that same thing that happened in Greyson happening here and on the battlefield was not something Malika had calculated. Enjoy exclusive content from empire

This time, she was not ready for that conversation and while they had teased Mbali about that woman and that day, Malika was never going to be ready for the possibility that that woman would have been their enemy and that she did mean anything to Mbali.

That could explain why it was so easy for Nikolai to hurt Mbali. Malika thought of the betrayal that was impending and goddess, she hated that her sister's little heart would be broken in the princess.

She hated that all of this could have been stopped if she had been attentive, but how the fuck was she, a mere protector supposed to fight fate? The universe itself was slowly letting them go and they weren't even seeing that, or maybe it was too wild an assumption?

"Where is she?" Malika asked Nik, as she stared at the man who was staring at her smugly. She hadn't even realized that Nik had spoken because the spell, that Mbali had cast on him had come undone.

Mbali had been hurt and she had the strength to keep her spell active and that was either a very good thing or a terrible one. Well for Nik it was somewhat nice because this was his chance to breathe freely and even use his mouth for the first time in ten hours.

They were screwed anyway, and the night was here, so there was no point in them holding back right? The moonlight was beautiful as hell, prettier than anything they had ever seen, and boy was it perfection.

"Ah, finally I can speak. Goddamn, it's finally midnight, eh?"