The Rejected Alpha's Vengeance

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"We don't need you. I don't know why the fuck you came here. I don't care about what you want, but know that when dawn comes, you will be dead. You can leave now and never come back, or stay and watch me be the first to put a stake into your heart," Mbali warned.

She was not about to make any compromises and frankly, that was understandable. She wasn't sure how to react to all of this without being hurt and she had had her fair share of pain to last her the night anyway.

"You don't need a stake for that," Amina said softly. A part of her was still hoping that all would be well, that the world would be all shiny for them. She knew it was a long gamble, but then she couldn't help wanting to be there for her mate.

She just wanted to spend more time with Mbali, even though shit had gotten complicated. Nothing she had done so far warranted the trust she was hoping for and maybe that was why she was pulling back too.

Amina was a lot of things but then to Mbali, she was the one person Mbali didn't want to see.

"Great. I'll just use my blades then," Mbali said spitefully as she got out her blades.

She was sick and tired of being treated warmly by the person who had broken her heart. Amina was supposed to be a really bad person to make Mbali hate her with ease, and yet she had turned out differently.

Amina looked like she would worship the road that Mbali walked and would now to her on every occasion. Amina wanted Mbali for herself and she was willing to do whatever it took just to be breathing the same air as Jabali Lihle.

Maybe that made her a little too hopeful in the face of chaos, but then what else was there for her? It wasn't like they would be living in some sort of wonderful world now, or was it so?

Amina could see the determination on her mate's face and knew that there wouldn't be anything to change Mbali's mind anymore. She knew that that tonight would be the last she would see her mate and it hurt a little worse than staying away had.

"Here… A blade that kills the undead. A blade forged to kill my family; the only thing that can end us all. If you want me dead, you'll have to use this, hermosa," Amina said as she handed Mbali a blade covered in silver and gunpowder.

It was obviously lethal and could cause more damage than anyone would have expected.

Amina was here to hand Mbali the one thing that could end her and her entire family, thereby putting an end to the madness of the Russel house and Mbali's response was unexpected.

Maybe it was because she hadn't really expected this, but then the night itself had come with so many things that they needed to work through.

They would eventually find a way around it and no matter what happened along the way, both of them had to make a decision about them eventually.

"Don't think I won't use it," Mbali said as she stared at the blade that was calling to her.

The temptation was there.

The urge to take the blade and use it on the woman who was here breaking her heart or even her brother who was almost a vegetable in the distance. It was something that Mbali would obviously consider, but then a part of her was hurt that it had come to this.

How the hell had she gone to want the woman she loved and hoped to see again, dead?

What kind of a fate was this that wasn't even letting her have the choice of life and love?

Why did it always have to be bloodshed wherever she and her friends were? Was that ever a fair fight anyway?

"If I must die, then let it be by your hands," Amina said with a smile like her heart wasn't aching so badly. Amina had only ever wanted to love Mbali but then circumstances were eating at her in ways she couldn't have thought of yet.

This was a fate she had not hoped for, but then she hadn't become a good person over the years, right? She was just but a member of the rose family that had caused so much chaos in the universe for the past thousand years.

"How noble. I bet you haven't seen your dumb brother yet, huh?" Mbali said with a sinister laugh as she pointed at Nik who was choking on mud still, though the fire had been put out by Ruru some time ago when they were staring at Amina.

Amina had seen her brother alright. She had even sensed his magic fade and everything else for the day that they had captured Nik seven months ago. She had known that these groups were with her brother.

She had felt the bond when Nik threw Kurt into the secure portal back home and she had seen to it that the boy had gotten home well. Granted, Amina hadn't been expecting to have a younger brother after all these years, but then it had happened.

The kid was innocent in their eyes, but to the protectors, he had been the one way to get to the Russel family. And while Amina had brought her little brother home, she knew there had to be a catch with them.

There had to be a reason the brother was sent through freely, especially after the endless times they had felt the familial bond be cut and get restored. You would think that the Savasci Knights would spare children.

Well, the children of their people had been sacrificed unnecessarily but the Russel warlocks so there was no reason for them to be here pretending to play well when they had all been monsters. But was that why Amian was here tonight?

Was that really why she had risked everything to get herself in the hands of the Savasci knights who could easily kill her and throw her boy into the worst of acids like they had done with her sister Razia?

"I'm not talking about Nik, mi reina. I'm talking about you… About what you must do for your team. Here is the perfect weapon to put an end to all of us. This is your chance at peace, hermosa," Amina said sincerely as she stared into her mate's eyes.

She loved Mbali so much it was breaking her ever-cold heart. Ever since she had felt the mate bond endless years ago, Amina had tried to keep herself close, but with the protector around Mbali, Amina had known it was a suicide call.

It was something that wouldn't do the both of them any good, especially since Mbali hadn't even grown old enough to know shit about mate bonds. That was a risk that Amina had wanted to take, not with the one girl her heart belonged to.

"I hate you," Mbali said when she saw the sincerity in Amina's eyes. She hadn't been expecting it and it was screwing with her mind in so many ways. This wasn't how her mate bond was supposed to go, but what could Mbali do?

"And I love you, hermosa. I love you more than life can ever comprehend…"n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om