The Rejected Alpha's Vengeance

The man was panting and he looked like he had seen the devil himself. He looked like he couldn't take another moment of life and if his alpha didn't listen to him, he would choose to die in that instant.

Jer and Malika were currently at an arcade in a hotel outside of Sicario, a choice that Malika had given the elephant earlier. It seemed like a weird proposal, but the Alpha trusted his wife and trusted her instincts. He only wanted to make her happy.

The whole reason for the date was to make Malika feel better and right now, as they were playing in the arcade, it made sense that the Alpha was disappointed that They had made it to this point.

"Alpha… SHE's back and killing our people," Theo said and Jer scoffed before he realized what his enforcer had just said.

"Who the fuck is killing our people?" Jer asked, carefully as Malika looked at him with worried eyes like she didn't know what they were talking about.

"The Sicario heiress," Theo began before correcting himself.

"Awuor Hawi Sicario. She is back, and with the support of the impossible factions. She is in Sicario with an army of thousands of warriors who are tearing through our people like paper.

"We haven't been able to hold our defense and we need you both. We need you, please Alpha."

Jer looked at Theo, wondering what the man was high on.

However, the longer he looked at the warrior, the more he was sure that this man was being truthful with him. There was raw fear in his eyes, his hands were shaking, he looked disheveled like he had had a one-on-one with the devil himself.

Theo looked so scared it was worrying Jer. And the fact that he had come to where the Alpha was, meant that he had to have come on his own and couldn't send anyone. Perhaps this was an illusion?

"Slow down, Theo. Are you sure you saw Awuor Sicario?" Jer asked as he started to realize the magnitude of everything. It was all an illusion to him. The last time he had imagined Hawi was when he was back home and even on the day of Dom's wake.

He had sworn he saw her. Then again, the woman they had left in the rubble looked a lot like Hawi but he hadn't believed it perhaps this was just his subconscious playing games with him. But why now? Why at this moment?

"Go back, Theo. I am coming right after you. Go defend the borders and make sure they don't get in," Jer said and Theo looked at him like he had lost his mind. What the hell was this?

The alpha hadn't paid attention to him and frankly, Theo couldn't blame him. So many had been shocked at the realization that Hawi was alive; it wasn't something that occurred daily and that scared the living daylights out of them.

Perhaps their alpha would find a way out of this, right?

"Yes alpha," Theo said before he shifted into his wolf and made his way back to Sicario.

"Wh—" Malika began as she trembled while looking at the alpha.

Meek Malika looked scared of Hawi and rightfully so, because everyone knew Hawi's reputation.

Everyone in Sicario had been telling Meek Malika of what a beast Hawi was and how powerful the woman was. She had heard the rumors and now she was married to that woman's mate. What the hell would this mean for her?

"She'll kill me. She'll not let me live. She will definitely kill me. You said she was dead. You said she was not in your life anymore. She is alive.

You lifted. You married me when you had a mate.

"You… She will definitely kill me," Meek Maika began crying her heart out as she looked at her husband who was wearing a heartbroken face.

Jer looked like he wished to fix this but a part of him could tell that even he wasn't sure what this was about. There was just no way that Malika would be involved in this. He couldn't let his wife be hurt by the devil who had come to their home.

"Baby… look at me. I need you to listen to me very well," Jer said and meek Malika stared at him with raw fear in her eyes. She looked so scared and helpless. She looked like all the rumors had gone on to her head and that shit was driving Jer crazy.

He had promised to give her a better life, keep her safe, and now the only thing he could do was keep her away. He loved her too much to lose her and maybe that made him a stupid man, but he had made up his mind.

"She'll kill me," meek Malika sobbed, bringing the attention to them.

All this time it had just been the two of them on their word but as they walked away from the arcade after Theo's disappearance. But now reality was hitting them a little too harder than expected.

"Malika, no… Focus on me, baby. I need to go back to Sicario to see if I was telling the truth. But I can't take you with me, sweetheart,'' Jer said and Malika stared at him with teary eyes, like she was really scared of being left out there.

"But… I… She—"

"Just listen to me, love. I need you to go to the human lands, and stay there. We have associates and they will know you at the border. Go there and tell them I sent you, for reasons that can be spelled out, okay?

"I will come for you, my love. If Awuor is back, then Sicario is doomed and I don't want you to be caught in the crossfires. I need you to listen to me, my love. Can you do that?" Jer asked and Malika stared at him, still scared.

"She'll kill me. She'll kill me. She'll kill me," Malika rambled as she began pacing, making Her lose his mind. He knew he had pressing things to attend to but he couldn't leave, not when his mate was in this state.

"Baby—"

"They said she was vengeful and dangerous. That she wanted to burn Sicario. Now she is here and I am married to her husband. She will kill me. She will ruin me for you,'' Malika said and Jer roughly ran a hand through his hair.

He then grabbed Malika by the neck and slammed their lips together, instantly shutting her up. He kissed her, but he could smell her fear and it was messing with him. He loved her so much it was breaking him.

So, Jer made the only choice he could at the moment.

He knocked her unconscious and took her back to the hotel, booked a room for her for three months, with everything catered for then left her with his credit cards and everything that would keep her comfortable.

Then he left for Sicario.

"I'll kill her like I did her family," Jer swore under his breath as he left

Malika heard him.

So she just laughed at the Alpha.

No one could beat Hawi's rage.

No one, and he would find out soon.

"Hello, Mistress."

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[A/N]

* And the 2023 season comes to an end woo! We did great this year, see y'all next year.

~ With love, Author-nim