The Rejected Alpha's Vengeance

Chapter 490 Break My Heart, As Always [8]

[RUKIYA]

[FLASHBACK]

[Still Five Years Ago, A day after Malika's wedding, Clarkson Pack]

"I'd run, if I were you, all of you," an awfully familiar voice said, making the warriors turn to look at the source.

It was unexpected, especially here at the training grounds, but the warning was so clear in that voice that the warriors were sure they wouldn't want to stay if they wanted their lives.

"Or do you want to test how powerful me and my army that is a few clicks away from here, are?" the voice asked again and the warriors, including Lihle, ran off.

They were injured and slow, but they knew they had to leave that place as soon as possible because the woman who had just walked in was the very definition of hell, and the mother of 'fuck around and find out'.

She was dangerous and could easily bring them down, because this very woman knew all the secrets of the Clarksons, and for that very reason, they were sure she knew what their weaknesses were as a pack.

It wasn't that hard to tell, but damn, the disappointment in the woman's face as she looked at Hawi's broken self on the ground, made the skies want to open and cry for Hawi.

"I leave for a week and this is what you do, huh?" Rukiya asked, the disbelief on her face not even matching the ache in her heart for the wild woman on the floor. This woman would definitely be the death of her.

"If you aren't here to beat me up, leave me alone. You always spoil my fun, Rukiya,'' Hawi said as she struggled to open her eyes.

She couldn't even get herself to trigger her werewolf abilities anymore. That was how terrible she had been beaten, and boy did she look like she was stoned in the pit of the unwanted.

Hawi knew that Rukiya wasn't going to let this go, and expectedly, the ultimatum came, something that made Hawi smile at how protective her Ruru was.

If they had met under better circumstances, they would have been best friends, and even more, but was that off the table now?

"You have two choices, baby. Either come with me and I figure out a way to fix you up, or dare me to beat you up and watch me burn down the Clarkson pack here and now. And trust me, not even their name will be left in the minds of everyone when I'll be done with them.

"Dare me, love. Try me and see what I will do, hmm?" Rukiya said angrily as she took in Hawi's appearance.

She felt a stray tear fall from her eyes at how vulnerable Hawi had let herself be. The vulnerability was never a problem, but the kind of vulnerability that Awuor Hawi had subscribed to, was one that would forever break Rukiya's heart.

"I'm fine."

"Adolf, go find me Mbali. Seems like she and I have a lot to talk about. Bring her, whether you have to drag her by her hair or claws. Bring me Jabali Lihle.

"Y'know what, leave. Go find me Mbali and tell Adolf to stop stalling, that won't let me save her life," Rukiya said as she grabbed the supplies that Hudhayfah had come with and sat next to Hawi, ready to treat the elf woman's wounds herself.

"Tell me when it hurts, alright?" Rukiya said and Hawi moved away from her, breaking Rukiya's heart.

However, the sheer determination on Rukiya's face was enough to tell Hawi that they could play this game until the moon goddess came herself, and she wouldn't even be able to do anything to stop Rukiya.

"I'll let you treat me on one condition."

"You're not exactly in the position to tell me what to do, love. I need to know what triggered this, and why you let them hurt you. I need to know why you didn't fucking fight back and don't give me shit about wanting to feel the pain so bad because your mind was clogged.

"Don't even think of bargaining for Mbali's life," Rukiya stated, and Hawi stared blankly, like she was just caught in a lie. But then she knew that Mbali wouldn't hesitate to lay her life for Hawi, and that wasn't what Hawi wanted.

"Well then, seems like you're okay with me being this far from you, right? Besides, who knows, I might just fall in love with Lihle since she gives me everything I want, unlike you," Hawi pouted, and Rukiya flinched like she had just taken a hit in the heart.

Of course, she had, and Hawi knew that what she was doing was low, but damn, this was the only way for her to make a negotiation.

"Your call," Hawi added stubbornly, like she didn't just give the mother of crazies an ultimatum.

Then again, weren't they both wild?

"Fuck me. What's your damn condition?"

"You don't hurt anyone in Clarkson, and I let you take me with you to wherever you want."

"Only if we leave this instant, and you don't talk of falling in love with Lihle EVER again."

"Like I said, your call," Hawi insisted.

"You will be the death of me, fuck. We have a deal then."

***

[NOW]

"Fuck, Rukiya, arte you okay? You're sweating loads," Mbali said as she looked at the alpha who was struggling to control her breathing. But even then, Rukya knew her horrors would never leave.

She couldn't handle losing Hawi again, that much she was sure of.