The Rejected Alpha's Vengeance

"Hold it, lady. I know you\'re in a tour pack but I am looking for someone. Tell Rukiya we\'re here to see her. Tell her she needs to come to kick Hawi\'s ass for me since I can\'t do that without risking her protector\'s anger," Mbali said and Malika facepalmed.

This woman was nuts. They were supposed to be in mourning but Mbali was in so much denial that even Hawi herself wasn\'t sure what to do with her. The strangest one was Hawi\'s calmness.

It was too suspicious and Mbali was right to be worried. But then there were times when the heart mourned in shock so much that there was nothing else left but silence and perhaps that\'s what Hawi was doing right now.

"My Rukiya is dead. And it\'s because you all found a way to convince my child that dying for your cause was worth it. And now, I don\'t have a daughter, my people don\'t have an Alpha, and my warriors are kept from a war that wasn\'t there to fight in the first place," Luna Razia said and that shut Mbali up.

She had been hoping for far too long; she knew grief was different for every person. It sometimes turned the loudest into the quietest and the softest into the beasts of a time. The last time Awuor Hawi had this calm was when she had been banished for her mother\'s death.

She had not reacted and her face had been cold, perhaps that was the case here right? But Mbali was still unsure of this. She needed to laugh, but the red eye Luna before her was proof that this wasn\'t false.

"Where is Rukiya Greyson, Razia?" Mbali asked and this time, she used her Lycan voice to command an answer out of Razia.

It would have been considered insulting to a woman of Razia\'s stature,, and it would have made her mad, or Hawi would have considered the disrespect too much and commanded Mbali otherwise, but she was busy being silent.

"In the Alpha\'s Memorial house. She\'s dead and we\'re preparing for her burial," Luna Razia said and Mbali let out a dark chuckle. So many stupid jokes in one setting weren\'t fun, and she hated this, she would find it out on her own.

"What happened to her," Mbali asked again and this time, her voice was shaky, but the command was still the same. She needed answers from this woman, even if it was the last thing she did while this close to Hawi.

"She has a stab wound, from the battlefield. It was a poisoned blade, meant to kill the white wolf and my Rukiya took the hit. Now she is dead. Do you have any more questions, warrior?" Luna Razia asked once Mbali stepped back, only for Luna Razia to slap Hawi.

Well, she tried to, but failed because Malika wasn\'t letting her do it.

"You might want to rescind that, Razia. Your daughter knew the risks of the blood oath she made. You knew it too, and she died for that very oath, I don\'t see why you would be acting up like she wasn\'t the Alpha.

"As it stands, you\'re not even the next in line for the alpha position. Adolf, right there, is in charge of everything. You try to lay a hand on Hawi and I swear on your life, I will burn you with just a snap of my fingers.

"Now I\'ll let your hand free, but be careful, Razia Greyson. Careful about the enemies you make, for they might be the ones to teach you life," Malika said and Razia stepped back, especially after she saw Malika remove her mask.

It was a dangerous move for her but then there wasn\'t a thing she could do about it. She could have sworn she had seen this face somewhere. Knowing that voice and what she had said, made Razia wonder if she had seen this woman before.

If this was Hawi\'s protector, then she was fucked, and why the hell was she here too?

"Arghhh!!!" Razia cried out and Adolf just commanded the warriors to go get some rest and be tight with their families.

They had all come home and their dead were buried, so there wasn\'t an issue. The dead warrior\'s families would be compensated according to tradition and they would have to live it though.

As for Rukiya Greyson, Adolf knew there was no point in trying to hold back Hawi because she had every right to be here, seeing as the blood oath was bound to her. It Was only right that she was here.

"Come along, Alpha Sicario. You can say your goodbyes tonight, and we can do that, tomorrow," Adolf said, ignoring Luna Razia who stood there in disbelief. Had she just been snubbed by her own pack Beta?

What the heck was going on and why the hell were the Greyson warriors allowing this? Perhaps there would be an explanation and Luna Razia sure hoped there was a decent one because this was ultimate disrespect.

So many things had happened in one night and she had a dead daughter and yet her beta was alerting the probable cause of her daughter\'s death to walk in freely like this was some damning show for the world.

Oh, but there had to be something.

At first, Razia was sure there had to be an enchantment, because her warriors were loyal to Rukiya. They were everything Rukiya would need in an army so this was driving her nuts.

"Luna, you need to get some rest," Shery, the pack cook, said to Luna as she helped Razia back to the pack house.

The entire pack was still in choke form from what had just happened. They had never thought that he would be dead again in the main house of Greyson. Since the death of the first Greyson Alpha.

Rukiya was a good Alpha and honestly, while the Greyson wolves were mourning her loss in silence, they were proud that she had died on the battlefield like a true warrior. They hoped that she would rest well, for she had fought for them in wars that many never survived.

"My daughter, Sherry," Luna Razia whimpered.

"Tradition demands that Hawi be the first to see her, Luna. She was Rukiya\'s chosen mate and they were bound by an oath of duty. That is why Adolf chose her over you. Please understand Luna Razia.

"This is not meant to disrespect you. It is obvious they are all in denial too. Just let them do their job, please," Sherry said to Luna who looked scared of this new role.

She knew that there would be so many changes in Greyson because of this, but deep down she didn\'t care about the changes. If anything, she was glad that her daughter had died, because then she would be able to defeat Hawi.

That was her main goal.

And just like she had told Her, she would do anything to see Awuor Hawi defeated.

If this was the price for it, then Razia Greyson would see to it. She didn\'t care anymore. Besides, it seemed to work because she had heard Mbali earlier, trying to evoke an emotion out of Hawi and there was nothing, not even a desire to shut the woman up.

"My sweet Rukiya," Razia mourned.