Chapter 256 : Don’t Let Them Hurt Her
"You, Rukiya Greyson, are Hawi\'s bane. Literally," Atticus said with a sinister laugh. He seemed so convinced of all this and for a moment, Hawi looked at Malika, her eyes full of questions for her protector.
Hawi was new to so many things as the white wolf but as Rukiya\'s mate, there was only one solution for her. She would save the girl, even if it meant losing her life in the process.
Life hadn\'t been a path of roses for the both of them, but Hawi wasn\'t going to let go.
"I\'ll kill him," Hawi said as she prepared herself to cast a spell that would blow Atticus up. She was so mad, raging with anger and the fear of hate Ruru was thinking of. Atticus was fucking with Rukiya\'s mind and that wasn\'t right.
Hawi hated it, but Malika stopped her, almost like she knew something. Of course, she did. She was the longest-living proctor in the realm anyway.
"Stop, Hawi. If he\'s there like that, he knows something. Now it makes sense why Jer was so sure he would kill you. This shithead was behind it all. I need you to stay out and let me handle this alright?" Malika said and Hawi glared at her.
Granted her life was in danger, but her mate was hurting and she wouldn\'t just sit by. She needed to make sure Ruru was safe and well-protected.
"You can\'t be serious,\'\' Hawi said and Malika stared at her like she really was.
"We cast the most powerful spell ever, and still failed. That could only mean that space in the team was a traitor planted. We had rogues on our team, so it had to be one of them who had been given an offer by Atticus.
"They made the same offer to Jer when he came to betray you," Malika said and Hawi stared at her in confusion. No one had really told Hawi what had happened and why Razia was so adamant about killing her.
But realizing that she was a part of all that and a rogue kid, just made her wonder what else they were hiding for her.
Hawi knew that most of the things she didn\'t know were to protect her, but how the fuck was knowing Jer was a rogue supposed to protect her? Oh, Hawi was confused, but then Malika didn\'t have time to talk that shit out with Hawi right now.
"What?" Hawi asked, venue though she wasn\'t sure what she was asking.
"Please let me do my job, Mistress. Stay here, and don\'t move. Is that understood?" Malika asked and Hawi knew she didn\'t have an option.
The forces they were up against were too strong and with her lack of knowledge of this mess she needed to wait and see how Malika would handle it. Perhaps just this time she would take the back seat, yeah?
"If he lays a hand on Ruru, I won\'t sit back," Hawi wanted as if to remind Malika of what she was feeling and what her stance in all of this was. Then again, Malika knew what she was doing, yeah?
"I know, Mistress, I know. I hope it doesn\'t get to that," Malika said before she got up and stepped out of the bushes they were hiding in.
Thankfully, Atticus wasn\'t a wolf so he wouldn\'t know what hit him. And with his back turned on Malika, all she had to do was be silent enough so Atticus wouldn\'t suspect a thing.
Hawi watched in silence with her heart on her palm as her protector went to handle Atticus, she hated the situation but she hoped that all of this didn\'t end with her Ruru hurt, because then she would be the mindless spawn of the devil.
She wouldn\'t mind being called the gateway to hell this time. No matter what happened as long as her Ruru was okay, the world would be okay too. That was the only condition to all of this.
As Malika made her way to the group, she noticed that some of the Lycans had noticed her. She just put a hand on her lips as if to tell them that the bastard holding them captive didn\'t know that she was there.
And even if he knew, Atticus didn\'t stand a chance against Malika, and that much was obvious. The relief on Mbali\'s face, when she saw Malika, was something incomparable to anything.
It was like the breath of life had finally been breathed into them and when they maintained their composure, they were happy that someone had come for them.
Hudhayfah had also seen Malika and Rukiya could have seen her too, if the woman wasn\'t desperately closing her eyes hoping to the goddess that the stupid magic she was born with could have meant something.
She hated being held captive and the fact that Adolf was dead, was something that pissed Rukiya more than life itself. Adolf was her best friend and best warrior. This war had just gotten personal for Rurur now.
Adolf was everything a brother would be to her, and now she had lost him because someone had sabotaged the spell. Oh, but Rukiya would get to the bottom of this. She had noticed that the only people who had survived were immortals.
She knew she was just alive because Hawi had completed the mating with her.
If Hawi hadn\'t, Ruru would be part of the wolves who were currently piled up like their lives meant nothing. That shit made Rukiya want to growl out but she was smart enough to know that whoever this man was, he wouldn\'t just stop.
He had to have known that Ruru had magic and the fact that was so sure Hawi would come here made Rukiya wish that Hawi didn\'t come. She couldn\'t bear being the reason why Hawi was in pain again.
The back and forth with the psycho\'s cycle had drained them more than once over the years and if Hawi lost anything again, there was a high chance that she wouldn\'t be back to the broken girl but a monster who had no soul.
Rukiya couldn\'t let her woman be that, not this time.
"You were so sure she would come, and save your pitiful asses, Hudhayfah, where is she then?" Atticus asked and Hudhayfah just stared at the man like this wasn\'t the time for the mess.
Malika was standing right behind Atticus and even she knew that the man had to have cast a thousand spells just to make sure he was strong enough and immortal enough to come and fitch Hawi.
Hawi was a formidable enemy so it made more sense.
However, what he seemed to not remember was that Hawi was never alone. It was something that Malika needed to announce to the realm at this rate, given that enemies won\'t stop popping up for their own selfish reasons.
"Come on, Atticus, surely you wouldn\'t think I would let the white wolf come to meet you, right?" Malika greeted as she grabbed Atticus by the shoulder and ripped his right arm off.
"Hello Atticus, I\'m Malika. But you already know that from the shock on your face… this should be fun."