The Rejected Alpha's Vengeance

Awuor Hawi Sicario didn't say anything, even when the door to her little prison was open. Instead, she just got out and stood on the side, like she already knew that this was what they had expected of her. So much was going on in her head.

Hawi was trying to connect one too many dots whirring in her head. The man she had meant to hate was standing there, in silence, looking at Hawi like everything was just fucked up. He didn't even have the desire to live anymore.

Alpha Sicario had changed a lot.

His eyes that once had life, were empty and lonely.

His heart was clearly broken, and he looked worse than anything Hawi had thought possible. The father she knew had always been a warrior with a strong spirit, but the man before her was different, new to her even.

She hadn't thought there would come a day when the great Sicario would be looking like a warrior who had suffered through all the seasons of war. He was in terrible shape and Hawi felt her heart sink into her stomach.

This wasn't what she had expected, but then at this point, it was safe to say her brother was more than willing to prove to her that not everything was what it seemed.

"You must really be desperate. Is he the mole you went to look for?" Hawi asked coldly as she took in the appearance of her father. She could smell his natural woody scent, something that broke her heart.

Malika was right.

Her father was held here. Her father was being tortured and had no way of getting out; and now that she looked at her brother who was alive and well, Hawi knew that their father had been innocent.

There was more than met the eye with these two and how she wished she could make things better for him.

"Well, what do you think, huh, Hawi? Anyway, we broke his legs so he couldn't run away. How's that for the worst?" Dom said and Hawi almost broke her facade.

Her brother had become something else, not to mention Jer was smiling sinisterly like he knew something the Sicario siblings did not. He was too calm and seemed to be enjoying whatever interaction the brother and his supposed sister were having.

"Oh yeah?" Hawi said absentmindedly, as she thought back to Rukiya's words from two years ago, a conversation that she should have paid more attention to, and one that should've been an eye-opener to her and everything else she had experienced.

But was Hawi too late for this realization?

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[Flashback, Two years Ago, The Sicario Gates]

"You don't get it, do you? I am saving you because my mother made a promise to yours, the promise to save you even if it meant for yourself. If it were me, I wouldn't have wasted my time.

"Consider this me doing your mother a favor and keeping her promise with my mother," Rukiya bit back angrily before continuing, "Did it ever occur to you why your mother didn't tell you about your brother's ploys?

"She already knew you were powerful, so why would she sacrifice herself for you? Why would she give up everything for the daughter who could defend herself? Think Awuor, think!

"I would like to believe you are not dense, so please, think," Rukiya said when she had freed her arm from Awuor. She could tell it was a rough topic for the woman, but if he was planning to go back to Sicario and face off with her family.

"You don't know shit," Awuor growled at Rukiya who was just staring at her with a bored face now. They were both stubborn, but somehow their goals were similar. Whatever they were doing right now, was because of Luna Eniola.

It was like they were trying to make do with whatever they had to get through the fact that she was dead, but did that even matter now?

Awuor was hated by her people. Her brother and mate had gotten what they wanted and her father, he had given up on her.

Maybe Awuor was giving up on herself too and that's why she so desperately needed to go back home so that they could lock her up before she went insane in the free lands.

"Listen, Alpha Awuor, I know your mother sacrificed herself for you. I know she could have used her powers as Luna and stopped her son and son-in-law from doing the unthinkable but instead, she sacrificed herself. For you.

"Whether you like it or not, your mother is dead and it is on you. So, you can either waltz in there in the pretense of seeing a grave that is well preserved, or you can come with me and find ways to get the answers you need.

"The real answer as to why your mother had to die just so you white wolf would be activated," Rukiya insisted, pissing Awuor off even more. She was however telling her the truth that she wasn't ready for what, though?

It wasn't common for Luna to be friends, but to befriend Luna who people were looking down on because of her husband was something else. Eniola knew what she was doing, and she had been a friend to Razia till the very end.

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"If that is too much for you, if you think that was far-fetched, think of the punishment your father gave you and how bizarre it was. If he was going to banish you, why not strip you of your alpha position completely?

"Why let you walk out with your crown and power? Why warn you to never create a pack or they would kill your new members?

"It just doesn't make any sense because packs are meant for people to move on, and even the goddess would deny you that, so why did your father tell you not to? Why not close off the mind links between you and your people all this while then?

"I agree, the punishment was bizarre, but if your father truly believed you killed your mother, he would have made you a feral, not an alpha without a pack—"

"Because he expected me to find my way back home," Awuor said, realizing hitting her so hard that she was in shock. Rukiya looked at the packless alpha, and hoped that she now understood what this all meant.

"You have to find out why the alpha would do that, and why he wants you to go back home, when he knows your idiot of a mate is the temporary alpha of the pack. If you still want to break the gates of Sicario, then you can go ahead to Alpha Awuor.

"However, at least try and think of the sacrifices your parents have made. Sure, they were not so conventional about them, but they did it in a manner that would allow you to identify yourself. You survived in the free lands where the rogues roamed.

"You survived the gas Adolf released. You survived the clog of penance. You survived a lot of things, and if you wanna ruin it, that's your choice alpha.

"At least my mother and I tried to keep you sane," Rukiya said to Awuor, before she began walking back home, with her call for bananas not slowing down anytime soon. She had to keep up the act and she had to give the banished alpha a choice.

Maybe whatever Rukiya had said was true, but did that matter now?

* [End of Flashback]

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'Shit, Ruru was right?' Hawi asked herself as she looked at her father. This wasn't the way she had thought she would meet the senior alpha but goddamn, what the hell had just happened?

"Hey, are you even listening to us, Hawi?" Dom asked when he noticed that Hawi was just staring at her father with a blank face.

'He's never called me Hawi,' Hawi thought to herself as she turned to her brother, the realization dawning on her a little too hard, as her heart shattered to pieces.

Her real brother was dead, definitely murdered.

Whoever this was... was an impostor.

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[A/N]

* Do you think Jer killed the real Dom?

* Is Dom really dead or is Hawi holding onto straws?

* Why is Jer constantly smirking?