The Rejected Alpha's Vengeance

To say Jeremiah Warner was shocked would be an understatement. He was at a loss for words, as he watched his beta lock lips with the same woman that he could have sworn was dead.

Standing there with Elodie in her arms, was the woman he had mourned and burnt. The same woman he was about to go to war for; the woman he had loved with all of him. This was not making any sense to him.

However, before he could say anything, another portal opened, and from it came Awuor Hawi, and she was wearing a smirk on her face, like she had truly wanted to be there for this. It was a little too real.

"Goodness Kane… I didn\'t come to see you eating my protector out. You two break it up, or I swear I won\'t mute my Ruru\'s sounds," Hawi said and that was all it took for the two lovebirds to pull apart.

That threat always worked like magic, because everyone knew how extreme the two alphas were when it came to their bedroom manners. There was nothing that screamed mannerisms when they were together anyway.

"Mistress… Is something the matter?" Malika asked, ignoring the protests that Hawi had just started. It was so unlike Hawi to show up like this and while they wanted to pretend that it was all sunshine and unicorns, they had to be careful.

"Nope… I heard Kane call for you and I figured you would reveal yourself. Besides I wouldn\'t miss the shock on Warner\'s face for anything. Anyway, now that I\'ve seen his dumb face, I\'ll go now.

"You guys just made me horny. Thankfully I have someone to sort that out for me," Hawi said, while Elodie and Malika let out groans. They knew this was their punishment for mocking Hawi and Rukiya for the past two years, but then the mocking had helped them right?

At least all that mocking was finally yielding results, however crazy they were. It didn\'t matter that there was a war bound, what mattered was that they didn\'t have to worry about their allies anymore.

"M… Malika? My love?" Jer asked carefully. He was scared of what the truth was and frankly, it was understandable. He had stayed in front of Hawi\'s suite for this woman. He had waited for her over and over, hoping that there was something, anything.

However, as it was, there was nothing left for him. He had burnt a body and it had been real for him. It had all been worth it for him, but then what else could he do now that Elodie was going with his Malika?

"Your love? Are you still clinging to that word? Even after all you\'ve seen? Let me guess, you wanna ask me if any of it was real, no?" Malika asked, her voice stone cold, that Elodie was glad she wasn\'t Malika\'s enemy.

If Malika addressed her like that, she would have curled herself up in some corner and cried her eyes out. This woman was scary when she wanted to be and that was something that Elodie was slowly learning.

Elodie had already seen Malika bloodied and in action almost a year ago, but here and now, she loved what she was seeing. Maybe at the end of the day, there would always be something worth fighting for.

"Was any of it real?" Jer asked hopefully and Malika sighed. Surely this alpha couldn\'t be that stupid, right? Then again she had been with the man for over a year, surely she should have known what to expect by now, right?

"I don\'t know what you\'re talking about, but then I shouldn\'t be surprised. My sister was good at making people believe things. Let me guess… she told the lot of you that she was a Malika too?

"Probably from Clarkson?" Malika asked and Eldie looked at her in shock.

For the first time, Eldie wasn\'t sure what Malika was playing at. She knew the woman was vicious, but trying to make things easy for Jer was certainly not what she had imagined.

The alpha deserved all the pain in the world, and yet here Malika was, trying to ease everything for him. What the hell was going on? All of this was confusing to an extent, but Elodie wanted to see how it would play out.

The Malika she had met long before they fell in love or whatever they were at right now, was a cruel and vicious creature, one who loved messing with people, so this shouldn\'t have been surprising, but why was it?

"You\'re her. You\'re my Malika. Why go for Kane?" Jer asked and Malika just let out a laugh.

She had wanted to be nice, but it seemed like she wasn\'t really good at all of this.

She didn\'t believe in love, and shit. The only thing she had been doing was her job, but then she didn\'t have the time and energy to explain that to a man who still believed that they had been in love.

It was cruel, but it was the truth, one that they had to work through because, despite everything, they all knew that Jer had been in love.

"I would very much want to stay here and be your good wife or whatever the fuck you saw in the illusion that I created, but if you must know why I did what I did, then I\'ll answer that for you… of course, if you want me to," Malika said.

Jer watched Malika, and everything about her was the same. She may have been in her uniform, something that He could remember from the war but he still hoped that Show had forced her into this,

It was the only way. But then again, the woman he had been in love with was a weakling from Sicario. A woman who couldn\'t even hold her sword without feeling overwhelmed.

That woman had been weak and had been desperate for protection. As challenging as it had been for them, he had vowed to protect that woman. But that woman wasn\'t this one here. He could see it.

Maika was nothing like his Malika, so what the hell had happened to them?

"Why… Why lie that you have a twin when all this time it was you? Why pretend to be weak? Why infiltrate our systems and use me for all the things? What of the wedding? Was any of it real?" Jer asked and Malika let out a sinister laugh.

"Rela? That shit was absolutely real. The wedding that Hawi herself officiated? It was golden. Maybe I should have let her come on you then so you\'d be haunted by it all. But then you were busy with her father, no?" Malika stated, even though it was more like a question.

She knew this wasn\'t fair, but then Jer had been too cruel to the woman he had sworn to love and protect when they had mated. Who was to say that he wouldn\'t have done the same to Malika?

"You don\'t mean that," Jer said and Elodie let out a snort. This dumb fuck just wasn\'t understanding how screwed he was, right? Maybe he needed a therapist to spell it out for him, but then that was too kind for Her.

"If it helps, it was all Hawi\'s plan. For me to come and marry you and infiltrate you. I must have done a good job because I got the entire Sicario mounting me. Damn, I should join acting competitions.

"Anyway, my baby called for me. But if you have more questions, please feel free to ask them the next time we see each other because I will be soon. Until then, good ridden, Warner," Malika said as he looked at Jer.

Jeremiah Warner wasn\'t believing that this was possible.

He had endured so much for the sake of his wife. He had made dangerous deals just to see to it that his wife was safe and protected; yet all this time she had been working for the other side?

This wasn\'t how he had expected his day to go but it was safe to say Jeremiah Warner was angry and disappointed in himself. He hadn\'t expected this, not even in his wildest dreams.

Malika had been presented to him on a silver platter, a weak girl who he was sure he would manipulate, and now he was learning that it was all just a ploy. What the fuck was their mission here anyway?

Oh, but Jer had so many questions for Malika, but then his time was slowly fading in the distance and he was losing terribly. Thankful for him, the Warriors had long left, because otherwise it would have been a cruel shit show.

"My Malika wouldn\'t be that cruel. She was not cruel. You are not cruel. Is Awuor making you do this? I can fight her for you. Please, Malika, please.

Tell me love. Tell me what you want me to do.

"I\'ll do it. I swear. I\'ll do it," Jer said pleadingly and Malika sighed. She should have already left through the portal but she loved to watch how miserable Jer was. She had long known the man was genuine toward her, but that didn\'t matter to her.

She was a woman on a mission and she would do whatever it took to make sure Jer paid the price for whatever had happened to Hawi and for everything that he had done to amble the madness.

"Kill Hawi for me. If you do that, then I will come for you. If you don\'t, then you know her better than me. You know she won\'t spare my life too," Malika said in a swift weak voice almost like Jer\'s Malika, and Jer felt the breaths get knocked out of his laughs.

"I wi—" Jer began but before he could complete his sentence, Malika and Elodie disappeared through a portal.