The Rejected Alpha's Vengeance

[HAWI]

"Ah, finally I can speak. Goddamn, it's finally midnight, eh?" Nik said and Malika glared at him white she waited for her answers.

This man wasn't going to get away with this and if the person who had helped him was who Malika was thinking of then there would be a long battle between humanity and a protector's rage, not to mention the white wolf's rage in the event that she lost Mbali.

But then Malika hadn't done everything all those years to protect her sister only for someone to come and screw that up in one go. This wouldn't end well for Nikolai and the sooner he understood that, the better it would be for him.

"You know you should listen to them. Your sister is so fragile she can die anytime," Nik said with a laugh even though he was high on the poison.

The Savasci Knights were keeping him alive just enough so he would give them the answers they needed about the other five shadow warlocks. He had to have known that, or maybe Nik just didn't care anymore.

These people were trying to use him to get to the rest of his family and it wasn't something that he would let happen. He still didn't understand how much pain Atticus had to have been in that he had willingly given up that much information, but then there was no telling.

If anything, Atticus had gone through the worst of tortures and still didn't even give them as much information. They had to admit that the mindset of the shadow warlocks was something to appreciate.

But maybe, just maybe when they had killed a few of them off, then those remaining would give them the answers they were seeking, the knights didn't that any difficulty in killing off people and they weren't about to start now.

"What do you do to her?" Rukiya asked and Nik stared at her like she had lost her mind. This woman had fucked him up with poison and he was still suffering between the thin linen of life and death and yet she had the audacity to ask him what he did?

Oh, there had to be something wrong with the woman, because there was just no way that Rukiya said that to him.

But then why did he seem so offended by the fact that he may have gotten lucky in this trick of fate than the fact that he knew he couldn't have been able to break the Lycan warrior, seeing as he had tried to attack the green alpha, the white wolf and even the protector?

He had tried it on them all and Nik was surprised to know that his attempt on Mbali wasn't a success.

He hadn't calculated that, and it shocked him to the point that he wasn't sure whether he needed to be happy with the outcome or he was to be sad that he had succeeded. He knew the black locust was never going to be easy to eradicate but goodness this was something else.

"Is that the only brain you have or is there another one, dear niece? Didn't You see me constantly try to stab her and finally each time? If you ask, me, maybe her karma finally came.

"You can't all be mean and expect nothing in return now, eh?" Nik said to Rukiya who had almost forgotten that she and the bastard they had held captive were actually bound by blood.

It was an unfortunate truth, one that made Ruru want to kill him just for that. But then if she killed Nik, she wouldn't be able to know what the hell he had done and how the fuck he had succeeded.

They were all walking on thin ice around the man and honestly, it wasn't the least bit encouraging for them. Perhaps they would figure out a way out of this? Ah, the bonds of family and their complications.

"You–" Rukiya begum as she glared at Nik who was paler than rice water. However, her words were cut short by Malika who suddenly kicked Nik in the face so hard rub could have sworn she heard a crunch when Nik's neck snapped.

But then immortality was a gift on some occasions though in this one, it was a curse that they had to deal with because Nikolai Russel was still alive even with the pain he was going through. He was hurting, breaking in bits but even then he wasn't relenting.

"Aww, why so serious, Miss Protector? Didn't you ever stop to think that maybe the four of you aren't as powerful as you all think you are?" Nik taunted as he stared up at the protector who was considering making him break even.

It was a cruel moment for Nikolai but it wasn't surprising, seeing as he had endured the war of the worst over the years and still found a way to survive. Maybe this way was just a joke to him, but wasn't it an expensive one that would cost the friends more than they could bargain for?

Hawi had been patient with Nik. She was still struggling to keep Mbali alive but with every word coming out of Nikolai Russel's mouth, the patience was thinning so fast it was driving her nuts.

This man was making her life a little too hard and she hated what he was doing to them. Find more adventures on empire

Even though he was laid in the ground with the spikes on the black locust deep into him, he still was a terrible person and Hawi was already thinking of the different ways to make him suffer.

Maybe there would come a day when life wasn't going to be as hard or maybe a day when their enemies would line up and understand that was more of a pipe dream, one so impossible that no one would ever believe in regardless of what they looked like.

"Careful, Nikolai," Hawi growled at Nik as she looked at Mbali. The woman was fading fast, it was a little hard not to know what the heck was going on with her as it was new to Hawi, but fuck she hoped there was a remedy.

Seeing Malika less disturbed about her sister's possibility of dying was making Hawi even more confused. The woman had always been on the frontline to save her people and now she seemed to be looking for that which they did not know.

But maybe they just had to give Malika some time, right?

Maybe she would give them the answers they are seeking so desperately, right?

"It's midnight, you're making noise for the creatures of the night. I thought a wild girl like you knew a thing or two about civilization. No wonder it was easy for us to plant Jer in your life.

"The stupid girl who only knows how to whine and cry her heart out," Nik said to Hawi who had growled at him in warning.

He was the reason they were in that current predicament and with their patience running thin, there was no telling what they would do to him. He was a menace and they are slowly learning that.

So Hawi growled at him, again, but it seemed to let it all go through deaf ears because Nik was always going to be Nik, right?

"Oh, come on. You guys are looking at me like I'm the devil. If she wasn't such a stuck-up professional whiner, she could have saved her brother. Her father was already dead meat. but her brother, he could have been saved," Nik added with a forced laugh as he stared back at the women who were glaring at him.

He may have been the one lying on the ground but he could feel their eyes glaring at him. They were probably thinking of whether to dispose of him because he was being a nuisance to them and his mind had not yet ended.

Ruru had tried to break through once again but she had failed too. It didn't matter though because they would keep trying.

Nik had a strong mind and it would take them a while, though if the poison spread just for enough times they would be able to make sure the bastard gave them the answers they all were seeking. Then they would be on their way.

"Shut the fuck up, Nikolai," Mbali warned while Hawi and Ruru tried to help her. They tried siphoning the magic but nothing was working. If this went on like this, they would lose Mbali and that was too great a cost for them to bear. That was too risky.

Nik on the other hand was staring at Malika who was still looking around. If anyone didn't know Malika well they would have assumed that she was already preparing for the worst-case scenarios.

This was one of the hardest things they had been through, but they had to remember that they always came out victorious regardless of who had what was being suggested. It didn't matter that everything was slowly coming apart.

Just because one cornerstone was faulty didn't mean they wouldn't be able to hold on until the cornerstone was fixed, right? But then that was tricky in so many ways and with Malika not giving them any solutions, this didn't look any good for them all.

"Says the one struggling to breathe. Tell me something, Jabali. Are you always this weak or was your sister's protection the only thing keeping you sane?" Nik mocked with a sinister laugh.

He may have been flat on the ground but with Mbali lying a few letters for him, he had the percent chance to torment the Jabali sisters. The only questions being, would it work, or was he way in over his head this time?

"What?" Ruru asked.

"He talks too much," Hawi said angrily as she cast a fire spell right above Nik's body.