The Rejected Alpha's Vengeance

[JER]

"Oww, that's gotta hurt so bad," Trey said as he rushed to his sister, giving her a hug.

"He asked me if I was a puppet," Amina said with a lopsided smile and Trey snickered knowingly. He knew his sister hated being given preferential treatment and that was the one thing that could get Amina killing people for fun.

Trey had heard of the sinister things his siblings had done and he was being honest they needed a therapist. But then what was the point of hiring a therapist when they had each other to experience the insanity with, right?

"Then you should have thrown him in the bone crusher. We need more bone flour," Trey said and Amina chuckled. They were crazy, among the worst people to ever live and yet they knew each other so well.

"I missed you, Trey. What's been happening here?" Amina asked as she leaned on the rails. She had a lot of things in her mind and they all revolved around the one girl she would give up her life for; but would she tell that to her brothers?

"We were waiting for you. What did you find out about them?" Trey asked his voice softening as he stared at his sister. Trey knew about mate bonds, and he knew that warlocks never really had mates.

So, when fate paired his sisters with others, he was certain there had to be a reason for that especially since their family was sick in the head in one too many ways.

Maybe this was their chance at redemption but then it wasn't exactly comforting since their sister who had a mate had ended up being reduced to ashes like she hadn't spent her entire life fighting for their deity.

Life was something that Trey never understood, but maybe he would eventually understand why his siblings had to make all those sacrifices over the years, right?

"The mate bond won't work on them. The mate I was given was sick and protector Malika bit her, igniting the sibling bond, making it impossible for my mate to surpass them, seeing as I never got the chance to mark her," Amina said casually.

She wasn't going to explain the bits to her brother. She wasn't going to let him know of the warmth she had felt in her heart when she had spent the night with Mbali laying on her, or even how her heart beats always increased when she looked at Mbali.

Amina wasn't going to tell her brother of the different things she was willing to do to protect her mate, including the fact that she had given up the one blade that she had crafted to kill her brothers if they so much as tried to double cross her.

There were so many things that she wouldn't divulge with them and she didn't regret it one bit. She loved her brothers more than life, but then she loved Mbali with everything he had and didn't have.

She loved her more than she loved her brothers, a truth that Amina Russel was not going to tell her brother. That would be too dangerous, not just for her but also for the beautiful Jabali girl she had taken a liking to.

She wanted to go back and kiss Mbali one more time. She wanted to steal that kiss and lean in deeper for more; she wanted Mbali in ways that were forbidden, but she would hold on. She would wait for her mate.

Even if she were in the Savasci Knight's chains, she would be alright as long as her Mbali was okay.

"So, what else can we do? Your mate bond was the loophole we needed and it's botched," Trey singed defeated. He could tell what this would mean for their family.

Granted it never translated to a great failure, but it was a setback that would send them back to the drawing board. It was not what he had expected, but then it wasn't like they were dealing with the regular wolves or even hybrids.

This bunch of Knights was undefeated for years.

"We can use Nik. He isn't dead. The sooner we channel Nik and see where he is, the sooner we can intercept them and then eliminate them all at once," Amina reassured and Trey stared at his sister.

He had to admit that Amina was never one for emotions, but then using their brother to kill people who would include the mate she had been obsessed with for the very first time she had known such a bond was wild.

"Including HER?"

"It's our lives versus theirs, Trey. We are in a bottle of life and death, not life and love. It doesn't matter. Besides, with all that she knows about our family and everything we did to the woman she is sworn to protect, there will come a terrible time soon.

"A time when it would be either her sword in my chest or mine in hers. She already knows that by now and we can't pretend that my love for her will overcome this. It doesn't matter what happened along the way.

"Besides, we were never born to be loved, little brother. We were born to parents who only ever knew war and who thrived in war. That legacy lived with us. There is nothing we can do about it," Amina stated, like she wasn't feeling the constricting pain in her heart.

If there ever came a choice between a sword in her chest for Mbali to live, Amina wouldn't think twice about it. She would let Mbali live, that one was a certainty. She loved that Jabali girl with all of her it hurt to even breathe.

She wanted to be there for Mbali, with Mbali, and beside Mbali. She wanted to live, breathe and love Mbali. But then their families were on different sides and it wasn't the best of things for Amina, though she wouldn't hesitate to lay her life for Mbali.

"This is the first time you said that, Amina," Trey pointed out and his sister stared at her wondering what the hell that was about. Amina couldn't think straight because she was already imagining Mbali having breakfast while they dragged Nik.

She could imagine the knights laughing at her brother or even dragging him across the lands for their pleasure. Amina didn't object to that. She was aware that her brother was a menace, besides the first rule of the white wolf operation was to never get caught.

Nik had failed in that, just like Razia and Atticus had. So, there was no one to blame for his capture but himself, he should have been careful and he hadn't been, so that was on him.

Sure, the Russels would do whatever they could to get to their brother, but then there was nothing they could do for certain, because at the end of the day, their mission was the white wolf and if using Nik to get to Hawi was a way out, then they would do it without a second thought.

"Said what?"

"You love her."

"I didn't say that. Don't misquote me, Trey. That is a dangerous thing."

"For you, or for her?"

"For her," Amina answered without hesitating, before she realized what she had just done.

"I meant to–" Amina begum and Trey just stopped her.