The Rejected Alpha's Vengeance

* Long Chapter Alert

[GREYSON]

"Then who the fuck brought me flowers??" Mbali asked again only for Malika to grab a note beside her bed, her eyebrows knitted as she stared at it and began reading it.

"I know you heard me last night, mi reina... I'm not sorry I kissed you though. I hope to kiss and taste you again when you're conscious, if you will let me. I'll see you soon, mi reina. Until then, be good to yourself. With all of me, Amina," Malika read.

Mbali stared at the team in her room, before her eyes went and focused on her sister whose mood had suddenly changed along with her aura. She was cold and calculating and it was obvious she was scanning the Greyson pack house.

Malika had sworn to protect her sister and even if Mbali hated her, she wouldn't let anyone near her sister. She wouldn't let anyone hurt Mbali. She was okay with whatever Mbali wanted to think of her, but the fact that someone had been here was unacceptable.

There was just no way that someone had walked past them and gone into the pack house and where her sister was. Sure, her protection spell was unwavering when it came to Mbali, but that still pissed her off.

Someone had reached her sister.

Someone had kissed her sister without her permission.

Someone could have tried to attack her sister.

And she had been around telling her to be careful.

"Who… The Fuck... Is Amina in this pack Hudhayfah?" Malika asked, her tone so chilly that even Elodie, who was sure Malika wouldn't hurt her, had to be alert.

Elodie Kane had heard of protectors losing their cool and she had once seen Malika bloodied and ready to send her back to her creator. Elodie had seen Malika in her beast mode and lord it wasn't something that she wanted to experience again.

Hell, she wasn't even wishing that horror on her worst enemy. Whoever Amina was, she had just knocked on the wrong door and fucked with the wrong person. This wasn't real, right? Surely it was just an illusion? But who would do this anyway?

"No one in the pack is called Amina. Maybe someone is pulling a prank on us all. Besides everyone knows not to fuck with your sister. This could just be a farce," Hudhayfah said and Malika let out a low growl.

She hated games and she never accepted any sort of games when it came to the little girl she had sworn to love and protect with all of her. Not even the torch on Mbali had ever gone unavenged by Malika and right now, there was an intruder.

"Someone came to this pack, Hudhayfah. Someone came to my sister. Someone invaded my sister's piracy and you tell me there is no one called Amina in the damn fucking pack?" Malika questioned, her voice coming off in an angry laugh.

Oh, she was pissed.

"Sit up Lili… Don't make me say it twice," Malika said to her sister who was staring at her definitely.

However, Mbali didn't object this time. She was aware that her sister had anger issues and while Malika would never hurt her, the people in the room could easily be collateral damage… including Elodie Kane and that wouldn't be fair to Malika.

"Are you hurt anywhere? Any new scratch on your body? Any pain other than the heart that hates me?" Malika asked as she turned her sister around as everyone watched. Mbali was too tired to even complain about this.

However, she let out a light laugh when her sister talked about the 'pain other than the heart that hated' her. It was interesting really, how Malika had accepted that her sister would forever look at her differently.

It was like the protector wasn't ever going to fight that, because even she knew that no amount of apologies would fix up the mess she had put the both of them in, not to mention the questions that Mbali had, that Malika refused to answer just yet.

"I'm fine, Freya. You don't have to act all protective on me, besides, I heard the person come in and didn't bother. They wouldn't hurt me, not when you're around and too close in the pack anyway.

"If there was a scratch on me, I'm sure you would have been the first to come here, seeing as all my scars always disappeared miraculously and the places where they were had beautiful flower dots," Mbali said and Malika stared at her skeptically.

"This isn't the time to make jokes, Lili. What if they hurt you? What if someone poisoned you? What if—" Malika rambled on and Mbali just sighed at her sister. She hadn't expected that this would happen but goddamn, her sister was something else.

"Are you deaf or what? I'm fine. No one hurt me. You're overreacting. Besides, if with all the protection spell you cast on me and all the sensors you have around me like some damn high-end jewelry store didn't work, don't you think that it means something else?

"Or are you so blinded by your obsession to protect me that you didn't want to think about the chances that maybe it was the shadow warlocks, or maybe it was actually someone who likes me?" Mbali asked as she pushed her sister off of her and Malika growled, assigning.

Her sister was testing her patience in so many ways but at the same time, Mbali was right. This wasn't the time for them to be playing protective sister for someone they didn't even know.

"I hate to ruin the beauty of all this, but what if this is a distraction for us all? The flowers showing a little too conveniently when we left Hawi and Ruru out in Sicario? The mind links to Sicario aren't working. I have tried them but there is nothing.

"What if we're here worrying about shit while Hawi and Ruru are having to do our jobs for us? We swore to defend them. We swore to make sure they didn't have to go to the battlefield. The fire wards were pulled down when the war ended.

"What of that gave the warlocks a chance to get in and disrupt the pack? What if?" Elodie said and the silence that followed in the room was so loud that Hudhayfah could hear the winds whistling ousted.

Malika looked at her mate, and then at her sister, the girl she was so worried about. She knew it was okay to worry about Mbali and she knew that her sister was okay, but what if Elodie was right?

So, Malika tried the mind links to Hawi, trying to prove her mate wrong. She tried to make certain that the two women hadn't either burnt down Sicario or gotten themselves into the kind of battle that would end with both of them bloodied again.

Malika knew that Hawi and Ruru were insane on their own and with no one to hold them back, whoever attacked Sicario would have to face the kind of shit that Atticus had experienced and while that was okay, there was a difference this time.

Sicario had kids.

Kids could be mentally scarred by the chaos of the two idiots they had left behind. Funny how they were worried about children getting scared and not about Hawi and Ruru doing the most despicable things to their enemies.

Perhaps it was how they had learned to cope with the idiots that had been assigned to, right?

"Aren't you all being a little pessimistic?" Hudhayfah asked and they all turned to look at him, making the old man just shrug at them.

There were so many variables at play and while this could have easily been a distraction, there was a chance that it was just a wholesome declaration by a suitor. Or maybe it wasn't, but then the person couldn't have gotten so close to Mabli too, right?

"Kane could be right, Hudhayfah," Malika said and Elodie stared softly.

"Oh, kids. The war is really fucking with all of you so badly. I know we are not in the right position to be optimistic, but for once, try to look at the situation like normal people would look at this.

"All I see is whoever Amina is, she is Mbali's mate, otherwise the endless spells you cast on your sister couldn't have worked. And the fact that she says she will be back to protect Mbali goes to show that she doesn't mean evil.

"I'm not defending Amina, but she stayed the entire night to watch over Mbali. And the flowers here are known to be soothing flowers. Flowers to make someone feel comfortable.

"There are chances that your sister was having a nightmare or was looking terrible and Amina did that to calm her. If you're worrying about the two crazies you left in Sicario, I will let you know that Asmodeus reached out to me;

"—begging you all to go back to Sicario… and before you start worrying… He was worried that the stench of sex could turn the pack into a brothel, and only you guys could snap both alphas out of whatever the hell they were doing," Hudhayfah said.

He was so calm about it that the warriors went from being curious about Amina to cringing so hard at the idea that Sicario was smelling like to horny alphas.

"I guess she finally used the dildos I gave her," Malika said proudly, Zane excused himself, Hudhayfah made a run for the door, Elodie held back a laugh and Mbali kicked her sister out of her bed.

"So, you're the source of the misfortune waiting for us and you're happy about this?" Mbali stared at her sister accusingly, all the anger gone, and amusement sitting on her face.

No matter where they were, it seemed like Hawi and Ruru were always going to bring them back together, even in the cringiest of ways.

"Well, she asked me for help, and I—"

"Finish that sentence, I dare you," Mbali said and her sister just raised her hands in surrender as she walked out of the room, holding Elodie's hands as if that was supposed to tell the Lycan enforcer that she needed to get laid.

"If Amina is really your mate, then you don't have to worry about me lending them to you, Lili… You can have them!" Malika said only for her sister to throw a pillow at her.

"Shut the fuck up, Freya!!"

"Just saying!"

"Kane… shut your mate up!"

"On it!" Elodie responded and Mbali grimaced at the response before she cast a mute spell. She couldn't deal with her sister and her horny mate right now. All of this had taken a new turn and frankly, Mbali wasn't sure what to think.

"Gee, thanks, Amina," Mbali groaned as she sank back into the bed, only for her to hear the sound of a soft chuckle as a paper popped into her hands.

"You sound so hot, mi reina."