The Rejected Alpha's Vengeance

[HAWI]

For the entire week that Rukiya Greyson had been in Club Hernia, Hawi had made certain that she didn't clock in for work along with Mbali. It was a decision that got Mbali curious.

However, Hawi told her that Amina had asked for more time with her and a week didn't seem like a long time for their souls that had been apart for eons.

It was a good deal and Mbali was quick to accept it, even though she was intelligent enough to know that there had to be a reason why Hawi had insisted that they leave Club Hernia for a week.

Perhaps it was because of the werewolf queen, someone that Mbali had realized that Hawi never wanted to talk about. Of course, Mbali had understood Hawi, after all, it wasn't that easy for her to see her replacement so close and with nothing that she could do.

Maybe Mbali figured that she wanted to go back home, but she wouldn't because deep down she knew that she would be forced to take over the honor, the same one that she had sworn she would only sit on with her Ruru.

But Rukiya was not around — or so Mbali thought anyway.

"The queen left Club Hernia earlier today," Mbali said to Hawi who was seated on the veranda of their home. It was a simple statement, but it was one that evoked so many emotions in Hawi.

When she had promised the goddess Islinda that she wouldn't try to make Ruru remember, Hawi hadn't thought a simple decision would be this hard to deal with, she hadn't imagined the loneliness that comes with having Ruru so close and yet so far.

It was a decision that still haunted her to this day and she hated the possibility that Mbali was going to read into this too. Perhaps this was her chance to start acting like a normal person, no?

"Good for her. She has a kingdom to run, not rogues to hunt. Imagine the werewolf queen leaving her high seat just to come and hunt us. What a weak woman," Hawi said even though she knew that the woman was the opposite of weak.

She was hers and Hawi knew her inside out. And that was also how she knew that it was just a matter of time before Ruru remembered her memories.

With the things he had learned from Thando, Hawi was conceived that one of these days they would have to face each other with memories of the past with closure dangling between them.

Hawi had tried to think of what that day would be like, but honestly, he had never gotten a definite answer. It was like the world we were just there for them to be a part of and nothing more.

They are apparently insignificant, but was that ever going to be truly the case for them?

"Well, I still don't buy that. There is no way that a Queen with amnesia could come hunting for us. We haven't done anything that could eat the werewolf council looking for us.

"We haven't been naughty for three whole centuries, there is just no possible truth to that. Either the queen wanted to come and visit Club Hernia without people asking questions or she just wanted to stretch her legs.

"All of this just doesn't make any sense to me," Mbali said, expressing her frustration and distrust of the woman that even she loved and adored.

The both of them had not been able to see the face of the queen but they had heard rumors that she was probably hideous that was why her face had remained hidden.

Even when she walked into the club, Mbali could only remember the mask over her face. Perhaps if Hawi had not erased her memories too, Mbali would remember just how hard she had fought for the girl in the werewolf queen's seat.

She was deserving of it, just like Hawi and they both knew it. Then again, that memory was wiped ago, so they had to only live through the new memories that Hawi had replaced for them because of the risks that lay with what the tut looked like.

"You think too much. How about this, let's go back home, yeah? You already have Amina, so we don't have to stay here anymore, right?" Hawi said and Mbali went mute for a while minute as she looked at Hawi, unsure of what the fuck her mistress was doing right now.

There were things that would forever sound absurd when they came from Hawi's mouth because of how insane they sounded and truly this was one of them.

Mbali couldn't think straight and so she looked at her leader, wondering if there was more to this then again, a part of her already knew that Hawi would always be playing at some angle.

What was the angle for going home though?

Was it just as simple as Hawi being glad that Mbali had gotten her mate or was this the kind of insanity that she had to embrace too while Hawi tried to figure out what part of hell they were both fit for?

"Home? YOU want to go back home? To Sicario?" Mbali asked, even though the words felt so foreign to her ears.

There was just no way that this was happening. They had been to hell and back, but even when they were at their worst., home was never a thought for Mbali.

Perhaps it was because of the pain that they had to deal with, the loss of those who they loved, and the desire to feel whole that would probably never come true for them.

Thankfully, Mbali had found hers, and was not sure that Hawi would be able to live with herself in the same pack that she had been unable to save her mate.

Home meant that they would be going back to all that they had been scared of facing, to embrace the realities that hadn't brought them peace for quite some time. Home would be foreign and she would probably never like home again.

It was a truth that still made Mbali want to ask so many questions.

However, for now, she wasn't sure if Hawi was in her right mind. There had to be an explanation for this, but would Hawi give it to her this time or would she be left to speculate like all the other damn times?

"I am fine, Mbali. Hudhayfah found his happiness and you found yours too. We both know that Ruru is dead and she wouldn't want me living in a pause like this for the rest of my life.

"I know she wouldn't want me to stay away from home for too long because of her. I know I sound ridiculous seeing as I was so ready to burn down the human realm to teach the goddess a lesson, but I want to be better, Mbali.

"I don't know what my future looks like or even what it will feel like when I get there. I don't know if this is a good idea or if my heart is just going to be ripped into shreds than it already is.
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"I know this is a gamble I'm taking on but I don't know what else to do," Hawi said in the hope that she sounded convincing.

Mbali was intelligent and judging by the way her eyebrows were tweaking, Hawi knew that her friend was suspicious of her, but then that wouldn't matter once they were home, right?

They had to leave this place someday anyway, so it wasn't supposed to be strange if the suggestion came from Hawi. Right? Again, it was not something that was easy to do, and a life that would be easy for her.

Hawi already knew what to do, because honestly, if Islinda had told her that the werewolf queen was her mate, Hawi would never have set foot back into the werewolf realm again. It was something that she had told herself.

She had been planning on reuniting Mbali and Hudhayfah with their mates and he would disappear after binding them to the wolf realm so they wouldn't come to seek her out. It had been her plan each year that she remembered Ruru's birthday.

Hawi hadn't had anything to hold onto other than the fact that he would try all the possible ways to join her Ruru in the afterlife. That had been her greatest mission, one that Mbali hadn't been aware of.

Perhaps this time it was a good thing that Islinda had talked to Hawi, right?

Because the realm would have spent years mourning the girl who had defied all odds to make sure there was peace in the realm, only for that same realm to take that which was dear to her.

Life was full of shit most of the time and hopefully, this wasn't one of those instances, right?

"But Hawi… do you release the magnitude of what you are saying? How will this affect you along the way? Do you truly understand the sacrifices you will have to make again for the sake of the realm?

"Is it going to be worth it for you or is this just another self-sacrificing instant for you? You do realize that we are your servants who would give up our lives for you without question, right?" Mbali asked as she looked at Hawi gently.

She was supposed to be excited at the thought of going home but this didn't just feel right. There was so much that was at stake with that little statement and Mbali wasn't about to let her best friend lose herself in the process.

But what if Hawi truly came clean to Mbali then?

What would it be like?