The Rejected Alpha's Vengeance

[HAWI]

"Get up, we're leaving," Hwi said as she looked at the stairsteps behind them.

It wasn't a decision she had come to light but then she had to let them know. This was the only chance they had to make things right because, at the end of the day, it would boil down to them still.

"Great," Malika said as she excitedly walked down the steps and Hawi let out a soft laugh.

"You're going in the wrong direction, Miss Protector," Hawi said and Malika froze.

"What do you mean?" Ruru asked.

"We're climbing the stairs. We're all qualified to brave whatever comes our way. Now come along, we do this all day. Seven thousand steps, we can do that in a week, but we didn't have a week.

"We have to clear the in thirty-six hours," Hawi said and Malika could have sworn she had heard the woman wrong.

Thirty-six hours, to defeat the chaos that had their way in the name of bringing at the damn temple? She and Ben are ready to go up there but in three days and not damning thirty-six hours. Hell, that wasn't even two days.

"I'm sorry, what?" Malika asked as she steered at Hawi and then at the longest stairs of her life. That was impossible. Hell, the seventy-two hours that Malika had been ready for wasn't even enough. And now they were talking about thirty-six hours?

"Last I checked, two days is equivalent to forty-eight hours?" Ruru asked as if that was supposed to make her mate change her mind, this was insanity at best, there was no other way to describe what the fuck was going on inside Hawi's head.

This woman had to be nuts, and that too on a level higher than what they had thought possible. Surely there was something wrong with her?

"Keep walking, sweetheart. We have a long way to go. I'll answer every question you have as we talk, ahead and not backward. We have thirty-six hours. If we did make it there in that time, then we are not ready for whatever hell is waiting for us with the crazed Russels," Hawi said.

Malika cursed herself as she looked at Hawi. She wouldn't have thought of that shit, but then there was no way that he was able to read her mind. Even then, this was out of this world, and they needed to talk her out of it. How though?

"The first one to hit the five hundredth step can ask me any question and complain all they want," Hawi said and Malika and Ruru stared at each other the competition in their eyes as they had so many questions for the unhinged woman.

Perhaps they had also lost their minds in the process, but what else could they do when shit wasn't even going right for them at any time?

"And ten minutes of rest if you reach the thousandth step," Hawi suggested, and this time, the duo didn't waste time bickering and got on with their mini-mission. They had a long way to go either way. So, this was no time for them to be bickering.

As they rushed up the steps, Hawi didn't even increase her space. She didn't try to reach before them or even tell them to slow down. She had other things to worry about, things that she wasn't sure were real or not.

Oh, but it was a tad bit tiring.

When she had been on the ship, Hawi had seen her mother, her very dead mother, Luna Eniola Sicario. She had seen the woman who meant the world to her and it had been an illusion, that much she was certain of, but it didn't change the fact that she was risking a lot.

She had read so many books on having the spirits talk to people like her and frankly, nothing about the things she had learned were good for her or beneficial for her sanity, she was risking going crazy because of them but then what else could she do?

Hawi wanted her mother.

She missed Luna Eniola and if she was given a chance to go back in time and be nothing but her mother's daughter, Hawi would.

Maybe she was being a weakling for thinking like that but then her mother had been snatched from her when she was too young. She wanted so much from the fates even when she knew that she wouldn't ever be able to get them.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

Maybe it was too much for her, but then everything had been too much for Hawi lately.

"You're thinking too much… go after them," a voice spoke to her, and when she looked to her side, Hawi saw her mother, the prettiest Luna she had ever seen standing beside her, holding her hand as if to give her the motivation she needed.

"I will. I just need a little more time," Hawi said even though she was sure she was reaching for the impossible.

She didn't need a little more time. She needed to finish the missions and get this over with. She needed to be the hope of the realm and if she wasn't careful, she would lose more than she had bargained for.

That's what she needed and nothing more.

"You don't have a lot of time though,," Luna Eniola said to her daughter who was fatigued and losing herself.

"Because I see you?" Hawi asked, even though she knew the answer. She was hallucinating. She was losing her mind and there was no one to tell her that. She knew it herself and it haunted her. Maybe she shouldn't have come along.

"I shouldn't be here and yet I am, baby," Luna Eniola said, making Hawi sigh defeatedly. She had tried to voice a lot of things but in the end, she lost. She was bound to lose no matter what happened, so why would she fight, right?

"You don't know that. You're my mother, of course, I'm always going to need you. I'm always going to miss you no matter what," Hawi defended as she watched Malika and Ruru's figures disappear the higher they went.

The reality was too cruel, and Hawi was never going to be ready to face that. Perhaps that made her even more of a coward than she had ever thought possible, but what else could she do? Your journey continues on empire

She had to be the person the goddess and Olyana wanted her to be. She had to be whatever they needed, even when she was hurting and when her heart was breaking tenfold.

"I know, baby, I know. But we both know that the longer I am here, the longer you see me, the worse you get. You need to tell them the truth, Awuor. you need to come clean to them no matter what happens.

"They will understand and they won't judge you," Luna Eniola said and Hawi looked at her mother sadly.

They were walking up the steps but at an agonizingly slow pace. It was almost like Hawi wasn't even sure if the steps were going to be worth it.

She had wanted to walk down the steps and go back to Sicario, but when she saw her mother, and changed her mind. Perhaps she was insane for deciding on a crucible thing because of a hallucination.

But that hallucination was her mother.

"No, mother, I can't tell them," Hawi said right as she heard Ruru calling out to her.