The Rejected Alpha's Vengeance

[HAWI]

"She… she left?" Mbali whispered defeatedly as she looked at the space beside her. When they had finished eating last night, Amina had begged Mbali to let her hold her one more time.

It didn't seem like a dangerous request, seeing as she was bound for execution the next day. Although her mind was conflicted, Mbali agreed to it, she and her Lycan were content.

And if she was being honest with herself, this was her doing, she wanted Amina to hold her for the night.

She wanted to know what it meant to have someone who loved her with everything. Mbali had had expectations of the bond she had tried so hard to deny, yet the same bond that had kept her sane for months in Sicario.

She had been blowing her mind with the patience that had kept her there but then here she was, back on the battlefield, hoping to see someone who would probably never see again.

"I'll be back for you, mi reina. For now, stay alive, and let yourself live a little," the note beside Mbali read, as Mbali, tried to figure out what this even meant for her. Her life was somewhat of a circus, and she hated it, so she turned to the one person she could let out her frustrations on.

'Fuck this,' Mbali sighed as she stared at Nik who was still unconscious. If Nik were a human, he would have died a long time ago. Thankfully, he was a warlock and one who had a life so immortal that he couldn't be killed with ease.

The man looked like shit at the moment and his body had gone pale. Mbali didn't even need to touch the man to know that he was probably already cold, a little too cold for anyone in his state.

He should have let his soul go, but he was still holding on, and that got Mbali excited for some reason. So, looking around, she wanted to be sure her sister wasn't awake yet.

Well, it was sort of an impossible prayer seeing as her sister was always awake most of the time, but then she hoped that just for today, Malika wouldn't come and stop her from exploiting this time.

Angrily, Mbali incinerated the paper beside her before getting up and began walking towards Nik.

She had seen Hawi and Ruru still asleep so she hoped that they wouldn't wake up anytime soon. But then with the sun almost showing up, Mbaki couldn't count on that at the moment the only thing she had was frustrations on frustrations.

"I can stop the hunt on Kurt, if you tell me where to get Amina," Mbali whispered in Nick's ear.

When she got to Nik she figured she could squat and match their levels because the man was still lying on his back and he looked worse than a corpse. He looked like even the holy grails wouldn't ever be able to save his sorry ass.

Oh, Nik was in so much trouble at the moment.

"Now, if you understand me, nod. This is a one-time thing, Nikolai. You tell me where Amina is and I free you," Mbali said desperately as she looked between her sleeping friends and the man who was the only link to Amina. Her Amina.

Nikolai Russel was still asleep when he heard the voice in his ears.

At first, he thought it was just his hallucinations as he had been having a lot of them in the night. He was always fading in and out of consciousness so this to him, was just another way out of the misery the Savasci knights had put him into.

"Nik—" Mbali shook the Russel brother only to hear her friends move around. She could hear the grass moving and fuck she hated that it had come to this.

For a moment there Mbali considered taking Nik with her, but she knew it would be pointless. Hawi was an extremely good yet the cruelest hunter than the crazies in the realm. And she couldn't have the woman she swore to serve hunting her.

That would be betrayal, something that she couldn't afford at the moment.

"He won't talk, Mbali. I interrogated him last night and well, let's just say he can't speak or even see you at the moment," Hawi said and Mbali let out a gruntled growl. She had dared to hope.

She had dared to go for the one thing that could get her Amina back. She was losing her mind and her determination was screwing with her head.

Maybe she was running wild or maybe she just didn't know what the difference was between sanity and insanity anymore. The man on the first floor was her only hope and if Hawi meant what she had just said, Mbali knew she wouldn't be able to get any information on Amina.

"He was my only hope of getting to her," Mbali said defeatedly as she slumped on the ground beside Nik. Her heart was aching so badly it was new to her and boy did she want to make it stop.

"I know, I'm sorry. But if it helps, we have a hint on where the Russell camp is. And Jeremiah too," Hawi said as she walked over to her warrior.

This wasn't what Mbali wanted to hear, especially with how harshly she had incinerated the letter Amina had left her. It just didn't make any sense to her that Amina would just leave like that without so much as a goodbye.

It was a haunting truth and a realization so cruel, that she wasn't ready to be a part of and frankly, that scared the shit out of her deep down.

"I just wished she would have said goodbye," Mbali added absentmindedly as she watched the light winds blow away whatever had remained of her only link to Amina.

She was in her right shape at the moment and her immune system wasn't compromised, but goddamn, she wished he could see her again. Just one last time, even if this was what goodbyes for them would look like.

"Why did you let her go?" Mbali questioned softly even though she wasn't sure she wanted to hear the answer to that. She had spent months hoping to see the woman and had gotten her only to push the mad woman away.

Then again, here she was, wishing on stars in the early morning as if that was supposed to make Amina Russel come back to her or even for her. Why was her fate this tangled up?

Oh, Mbali was simply reminded of the thousands of reasons she never liked letting her walls down. Most of the people she had loved over the years had left her.
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She had vowed to never trust anyone again, but then Amina was Amina and honestly, it was something that Mbali couldn't even explain. Her entire being wanted Amina, like the woman was the source of life for her.

Amina was good for her in a thousand terrible ways and goddess Mbali just wished for a taste, just one more. As she stared at Nik, Mbali couldn't help but think back to how close she had been to Amina last night and yet she hadn't let a kiss slip past her.

She had done so strictly with herself and forced a discipline on her that left her with desires.

"Because she is your mate, Mbali."