The Rejected Alpha's Vengeance

"Hold on. What other things will you take from her? She's already hurting, what else do you want with her?" Jer said, his anger forcing him to struggle against the thorns. He could feel his body slowly numbing and was convinced he was dying.

And even if she did, he couldn't die if his Malika was hurting. He just couldn't.

"Oh, you didn't know? She's carrying your heir, Jeremiah," Adolf said so casually as he looked at the Alpha who had no clue what was going on. Well, he couldn't be blamed. A lot was going on in Sicario and there wasn't even time to process it.

"Now hold on dude… I'm WHAT?" the real Malika asked, and Hawi facepalmed.

"You lie," Jer growled and the woman presenting as Malika looked at him with tear-stained eyes as if to tell her husband that this was nothing but the truth.

Then again, Jer couldn't be blamed for thinking it was a farce because he had never laid with Malika, not that he could remember. He was always drunk when he came home, a train that could have gotten him into trouble more than once and seemingly, it did.

"I'm with my child, husband. Our child. Our little Warner, a son," the woman said and Malika choked on air. She couldn't believe this, so she turned to Mbali and Adolf who had played that part a little too smoothly.

"When was anyone going to tell me that I was pregnant?" Malika mouthed to Adolf and Mbali who just stared at her then at the sky like they had no clue what she was talking about.

Of course, there was no pregnancy, but Jeremiah didn't know that. If anything, he more than considered that he couldn't think straight. The stench of his dead people was slowly sifting through his nose and the crows feeding on them were ruining his sanity.

He couldn't take this anymore. No one ever told Jer that this was going to happen, hell no one prepared him for the possibility that he would come back.

At that thought, Jer glared at Elodie who suggested the rejection. He knew he was a little too late with that, but then the woman was wearing a perfectly crafted shocked face, like she didn't know of this either.

"W… We have a child?" Jer asked and Hawi sighed.

"How long is this shitshow going to continue? Anyway, Jeremiah, I told you what I came for, and I am leaving now. I bet you will see me again. Be wary though, because the next time I come, you won't need to be tied up like that.

"Let's go," Hawi said, adding the last bit to her misfits who were a little delirious from the shit show they were witnessing. There were so many things that could have happened today, but she was choosing to see how her team would handle this.

Granted, her notice started and now that Jer knew she was alive she wouldn't need to hide anymore. She had no reason to, and her cruelty was no longer going to be a secret to their lot.

"Please don't hurt her," Jer begged as he looked at the woman presenting as Malika.

He didn't care what Hawi had to say. The only thing that mattered to him was his wife, his Luna, and the love of his life. He wanted nothing more than her safety and it was blinding him.

"Oh me? I won't hurt her. Like you said, I wouldn't dare to hurt innocents, Warner. But I said nothing of my mate," Hawi said with a laugh as she walked away with Adolf, leaving Rukiya, Mbali, Malika, and the woman presenting as Malika behind.

She didn't want to know what Ruru wouldn't do, but she had a feeling that it was not a good thing. There was just so much to expect, given her friends felt her fury more than anyone else and they knew just how much pain Hawi had experienced over the years.

They would defend her even if it was the last thing to do and this time, all Hawi had to do, was watch, from a distance before she got bored and left.

"What the hell does that mean, Awuor!!" Jer asked as he tried to wiggle his way out of the thorns but there was nothing he could do. He was a lost cause this time, and maybe that was the best thing that happened since the war.

"Well, well, well. What do we do with your pregnant wife? How the fuck did you not know you were expecting a kid? Unless you breed her when you are drunk and she can't fight you off…

"Tell me Jeremiah, did you force yourself on your pretty little wife?" Rukiya asked and Jer looked at her horrified.

He would never do that to his Malika.

He would never intentionally hurt her, but what was he to make of this? If his wife was expectant, then she was the father, seeing as his Malika would never lay with another. She was loyal to her husband, her bastard husband.

"He didn't… Do that. He didn't know. It was not his fault. I— I went to him, he didn't know please don't fault him for that," the woman said and Malika choked on air.

She would never sound like that, but then as she looked at the woman, she remembered that they had programmed her with the same settings that had been set for the character she had been playing beside Jer for years now.

What the fuck was this then?

Was this what she looked like around her supposed husband?

"Aww, how sweet of you to defend him," Rukiya said with disgust and Elodie stared like she didn't understand what the fuck was going on.

Of course, she loved the possibility of Malika being with a child, given their sex session earlier, but even she, the protector, would never let anything hinder her mission for Hawi, not even Elodie.

Elodie was very aware that if Malika had to choose between Elodie and Hawi, then Malika would choose Hawi without a second thought. Even then, the idea was exciting.

"Anyway, your mate is a bastard, and, unfortunately, you have to pay for his mistakes. A life for a life, sweet Malika," Mbali said with pride, before she started choking the woman, making her lose her balance even though she was still kneeling on the ground.

Jer's Malika was still unsure of what was happening and the fact that she was here paraded, made her wonder what Jer could have done to this bunch of psychos for them to drag an innocent woman into their shenanigans like this.

"What? I don't understand," the woman said as she looked at Mbali who was just staring at her with a grim face. This right here was a punishment for Jer, and at the same time, it was a punishment for the woman who had come here.

This woman was a nameless prisoner of the Clarkson pack for years and finally, she had found her use. Her sins were far too great to be forgiven but perhaps this time, she would make up for her wrongs by taking Malika's place, right?

"May the goddess forgive you," Mbali said to the woman, before she cast a spell that tore the woman's womb, and forced a fetus out, leaving her with his jaw on the ground, again.