The Rejected Alpha's Vengeance

[HAWI]

"I… I can't leave without knowing if Mbali is okay," Hawi sighed as she furiously wiped her tears. This was the first time she found herself so helpless and desperate. Her mind was filled with a lot of things that's why I didn't even know where to begin.

"Then we'll find her, I know we will. We have fifty thousand protectors, remember?" Ruru said as she looked at the mass of protectors who had shown up. They looked so ready to do whatever He told them to do.

It was like they had been waiting for this day for the longest time. Of course, to them, this was the greatest honor in all of history for them to be working for the white wolf along with the protector Malika. It was something they all hoped for in their training.

Funny how the first time they saw the crazy woman everyone was scared of, they found her at her lowest, head bent low because she couldn't even figure out what she needed to do. Then again, they understood her.

Hawi was merely twenty-eight with the responsibilities that she hadn't signed up for. She had just been a kid when everything started going sideways and now here she was, a shell of who she once was.

"I can't go home, Ruru. I can't go without winning this war. I don't even know if home is even home anymore," Hawi sighed defeatedly, and Ruru's heart broke for the woman beside her.

She had never seen Hawi defeated. And it served as a reminder that at the end of the day beneath the powerful woman who knew what she was doing, was just a girl, one who never got to mourn properly.

A girl who lost everything and waved it off because she had other thighs. That's what I need to do. She had pretended like she hadn't lost shit and kept hunting, and hunting and hunting. And now here she was, with a broken heart once again.

"No problem, Hawi. Not a problem. Come with me, I'll figure out a way and then we can make this better for everyone, alright? Just trust me, I won't let anyone ruin everything you worked so hard for," Ruru comforted confidently.

"I'm sorry I'm a mess," Hawi apologized as she straightened up, lifting her head high as if to remind herself that she was done moping and needed to get to work. She hadn't intended for this to happen, but then at the end of the day, she had feelings too.

Perhaps she had stacked it all up for years and now she just couldn't take it anymore and needed to let it all out. Funny how emotions never really had a timer on them because here she was, apologizing for feeling low.

"You're not a mess, my beautiful, and even if you were, you would be my perfect mess," Ruru said as she entwined Hawi's hand in hers, before raising Hawi's hand and kissing it in reassurance.

She loved Hawi and she loved that Hawi had gone from not opening up and breaking things, to actually wanting to make things better without having to tear down a lot of things in her way.

It was an improvement for them and Ruru was proud. It was obvious in her eyes, even as she looked at her like the woman was the best thing that the realm had ever been blessed with. Oh, she was down so bad for every version of Hawi.

"You're saying that because you're mated to me," Hawi said with a light laugh before adding, "If it were any different, you would have thought I was ugly."

"Back to your charming self, I see, huh? No one is allowed to call the woman I love ugly, unless they want to grow balls for me to string up alright," Ruru said, the soft warning in her voice making Hawi chuckle.

"You look prettier when you smile, my love. I plan on making sure that smile never leaves, and even if it leaves, then I will kill everyone that makes it leave," Ruru said, stopping suddenly, making Hawi stare at her like she was insane.

There were forty thousand and one protectors lined up, watching and waiting for them and Ruru was stopping? What the hell was she planning this time, especially with the smirk on her face right now?

"They're watching," Hawi tried to persuade Ruru against doing anything that would get them both horny and bothered to the point that they would have to disappear to take care of themselves as usual.

"So, I can't kiss my girlfriend?" Ruru asked with a pout.

"You know how we can get," Hawi tried to reason but then before she could even let out more words, Ruru smashed their lips together, ignoring everyone around them. She needed Hawi to know that she wasn't alone, and she did express that in the heated kiss.

The protectors could see that this wasn't going to help any of them, so they instantly changed their stances, and turned to look in the opposite direction until they were sure the duo was done. After all, privacy is mastered for the werewolf queen, right?

"I love you, you know that, right?" Ruru asked when they pulled back, their lips were swollen and their foreheads resting against each other's, while her hand was still at the back of Hawi's neck like she was going to dive in for more.

"Always," Hawi whispered.

"That's my girl," Ruru said as she kissed her again, this time more passionately, like she was the happiest girl in the realm at the moment. Well, each time she's around Hawi, she was a happy soul who could do the impossible.

"Let's go kick some asses into oblivion alright," Ruru said and Hawi smiled at her, a smile that wasn't forced by the situation. It was a genuine smile and fuck, Ruru could have sworn she felt her heart flutter again.

"Thank you," Hawi whispered.

"For what?" Ruru responded, the excitement in her voice as she kissed the dry patches of tears off Hawi's face, determined to make Hawi feel better. She couldn't have her love heartbroken and defeated again.

"For not leaving? For staying? For everything… I don't know what I would have done without you. Maybe I would have—" Hawi said and Ruru could sense her rambling incoming, so she pecked her lips shutting her up instantly.

"You would have done the same for me. I know you would," Ruru said earnestly and confidently. Well, she wasn't wrong. Hawi would have done the impossible for her, just like she always did, so it would even be surprising.

"Anytime you feel sad, just look in my direction and I will make it better, no matter how hard it gets. You won't ever be alone. I won't let you walk alone, alright? So come along, pretty baby, we have assholes to fuck up," Ruru said as she pinched Hawi's cheeks.

"I love you," Hawi said as she kissed Ruru's forehead before they began walking towards the protectors, ready to face the difficult mission with their new subjects who would walk on fire if they both wanted them to.

Well, what mattered to the two crazies, was that they were together.

"I love you, always, my beautiful. Never forget that," Ruru responded proudly.