The Rejected Alpha's Vengeance

[RUSSEL]

And so, for the rest of the night, the team caught up with each other's lives, reminding each other what was important to them and what wasn't. It was a wholesome reunion, one that sure put a break to the madness they had all endured to get to this point.

It wasn't easy, but they had known that going in, so this wasn't surprising. By dawn, Malika created a second batch of portals to get everyone back to where they had been, which was all good, but the same couldn't be said for Amina and Mbali.

Amina had left sure, but she had spent the entire night staring at her mate who was determined to ignore her. It was like Mbali didn't want her there.

"Maybe in another life, you and I would have been happier. Maybe the skies could have been kinder to us, but I guess this is it for me and you mi reina. Until the next life, hermosa," Amina had whispered in Mbali's ear that night.

So, when the portal opened for her to go through, she didn't look back one more time like she always did. She didn't try to convince Mbali of anything.

She had accepted her face and she understood that her mate didn't meet her so there was no point in holding on for the both of them when it was a lost cause. And fuck, Mbali felt that to her core when Amina had left.

But then what else could he do when everything was messed up in its own way anyway?

"You're back so soon, sister," Trey said to Amina when the portal opened and sister was back in his room.

She looked different, cold even. She looked like she had gone through the worst stages of grief and that there was nothing that she could have done to make the station any better.

Maybe she had given up way too fast, but then it wasn't like Mbali would have changed her mind if Amina had started a little longer, right? There was no reason for her to linger in the rooms that she wasn't wanted.

She had been brought up better than that, but goodness, why did it hurt so bad?

"Trey… It's over," Amina sighed as she plopped on the ground.

She had been strong for the entire night but perhaps she was bound to feel things eventually. She couldn't exactly go to her other brothers for this because she wouldn't ever be able to understand her.

But then with Trey, it was different, so here she was, letting her defeat and tears show in front of the brother who could easily relate to her. Maybe they were always meant to be broken after everything they were dealing with at the moment.

"Oh, Amina. I'm so sorry sister," Trey said as he rushed over to give his sister a hug. It was a soft hug, a delicate one that let them communicate a lot, but even that was never going to be enough to fill the dent Amina had in her heart.

She had tried to fight for her mate, but then it seemed like the way or reason for her to fight. No matter what she did, the outcome would always be the same, and maybe it was better for her to make the step away before Mbali actually hated her for real this time.

It was a cruel sentiment, but it was what life actually had turned out to be for them.

"I just need to sleep it off. I will be okay," Amina said to her brother though it was more to herself because she wasn't sure how the hell he was supposed to get through the day like this.

She had tried everything and still failed. And now she had to join her brother nursing a broken heart.

There were so many things hindering them that for a moment, as Amina thought back to Hudhayfah and Elodie's conversation about Perihan, Amina almost didn't tell her brother.

She wasn't sure that They would be happy with what she had found out, but then given it was like Hudhayfah himself had been looking for Trey, maybe it was right for her to tell him the good news, right?

Seven hundred years was a long time to sit and hope for a mate.

"By the way Trey, I found Peri—" Amina begum right as the door flew open and their excited brothers stepped out, gladly staring at her like they noted more answers.

They knew she had to have gone to her mate because that was the only place she would have headed after all that happened.

Her mate was her conciliation and the fact that her brothers weren't even bothered by Amina's mate bond, went on to tell a lot about what they thought of her as their sister and warrior.

They trusted her not to be blinded by emotions and while that was right, Amina hated that part of her reality.

Whatever the fuck was going on here, she wanted no part of it. She didn't want to be strong anymore, though she didn't have that much of a choice given her siblings were depending on her like they were all depending on each other.

"Damn, Amina. What did your mate give you for you just to be disappearing like that," Sebastian teased and Alex joined in. They were having the time of their lives, until Alex noticed the tear streaks on Amina's face.

"Did she do that to you?" Alex asked and Seb stared at their brother wondering what was going on. Maybe they were all reading the situation a little differently. But now that they looked at their sister, in Trey's arms, there were only two conclusions.

Either Trey had been the reason for Amina's breakdown, which is impossible because Trey hated violence and fighting with his brothers. He preferred to walk away when the situation was heated because he refused to use all of his years in training just to hurt his siblings.

"Who did what?" Amina asked as her eyes cleared like she didn't know they were asking about her. Her brothers were psychos, but they were psychos who would burn the world down for her.

They had lost Razia but they sure as hell swore to avenge their fallen no matter how long it would take. That was also how Amina knew if they made assumptions they would probably go after Mbali and that wasn't what she wanted at the moment.

Everything was just fucked up in its own way.

"You found who?" Trey asked as he looked at his sister, gently lifting Amina's head off his shoulder to stare at her sister and see for himself if what he had heard was real or was just a figment of his brain.

A lot of things had happened along the way and Amina knew better than to mess with him. So, Trey needed to know.

"My mate," Amina answered the last question, intentionally ignoring the first one, she knew it wasn't going to be easy, but what else could she do when the worlds were clashing at the same time?Nôv(el)B\\jnn

She had wanted to be happy, but that was now an impossible dream for her.

Perhaps she should have wanted till the battles were over, but her heart had melted when she met Mbali and even saw how pretty she was, not to mention his powerful woman.

Amina was attracted to everything about Mbali and hells be damned if she let her go in the next life. She would fight tooth and nail for her.

"Is she here?" Alex asked and Seb smacked the back of his head while Trey forced a smile. This conversation was far from over, but for the moment, he needed to save his sister from his brothers who were determined to make a fool out of themselves.

"It's too early for you all to be here. If you're worried about us, no need to worry. We are fine. Amina is fine, and you hoarding her space won't make it any better. Now go and leave us be.

"We will meet you later," Trey said and their brothers looked at them one more time.

"Alright, alright. Just let us know if we are to smash some heads. By the way, we got a signal from Nik. It's faint, but it will work for us to locate the psychos who are holding him," Seb stated, making Amina lift her head to her brothers.

Surely they weren't saying what she thought they were, right?

"Nik? He is alive?" Amina asked curiously. She hadn't seen him earlier when she had been with the misfits, but then again she had been so preoccupied with everything that was happening that she didn't look for her brother.

"Yeah. He's at the sacred altar in the west. I bet that is where they're headed. We must beat them to it," Seb said as the truck kept moving. They had planned to rescue their brother and were determined to never lose him again.

"That's a death sentence!" Amina sighed as she got up and began pacing.

The sacred altar was the one place their parents had watered them against going to. There was too much magic there, magic that was only ever responsive to the white wolf. If they were headed there for their brother, then this was a suicide mission.

They would never come back and she would never be able to tell her Mbali how she felt. Fuck.

"We would do the same if you were the one captured there Amina. The coordinates are set and the trucks are headed there. If you don't want to come along, that's on you. We will go get out brother even if it will be the last thing we do," Seb said with a tone of finality as he left the chambers.