The Rejected Alpha's Vengeance

[SICARIO]

"Is it too soon to say I want to spend every passing day with you, and that you're the love of my life?" Rio said and Theo just chuckled. This conversation was so unreal yet it was giving him butterflies.

"Is that a confession?" Theo teased as he kissed Rio's lips so gently.

"What if it is—" Rio began, only for the bells to ring. They are the bells that notified the entire pack of the possibility of enemies, which was not even supposed to be surprising anymore, because right now, they all knew what they were about to deal with.

"I love you, so very much, baby," Rio said as he pulled his mate into one last hug before they would go out there and fight for the peace of the realm and possibly for their lives and their sanity.

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"You don't have to say it back. And I would very much love to hear about your day and every little thing in your life that you want me to know. So go, baby. Go be the warrior Sicario needs," Rio said, interrupting Theo.

He knew the warrior would start rambling again and while he found Theo's ramblings to be cure and the opposite of what the warriors deemed to be known as, right now, they were both needed out there.

"And you—"

"I'll be right behind you, love," Rio said as he released Theo from his arms, the beautiful blue eyes staring into his eyes, making the sailor realize how beautiful these eyes could be when the sun rose. Oh, how he wanted it to be morning already.

Well, they had to get through the horrifying night to make sure that they got to live the ice they wanted, right? Besides, it couldn't always be that bad for them. After all, they had been to battlefields before.

That may have been true, but they had never been to battlefields with their hearts beating for each other hoping to the goddess that the war be kinder to their bid and that they didn't get to lose the people they cared about.

With one last kiss, Theo ran out the Alpha's office, while Rio slumped on the nearest couch, the devastation of their situation making him want to curse out the universe for this.

He had never planned taking a mate and it was obvious that Theo hadn't thought about it for a while. They were being brought together at the darkest of times and Rio could only imagine what this could mean for Theo.

He knew his mate was powerful.

Hell, he trusted Theo and he was sure his Theo would be out there on the first battle line. But that wasn't even making him feel any better because the past few days he had been thinking about this and the ending wasn't all that applied for them.

He had to tell them that all would truly be alright, but he wouldn't even find it in himself to confirm that. Perhaps he had been truthful with himself and his mate, but was it going to make things any more realistic and better for them?

Was this the kind of life had wanted for his mate? Devastated, Rio let out a muffled scream of anger. He couldn't take this anymore, but at the same time, he had posed to be there for Theo.

So, taking one last look at the room he was in, the sailor rushed out to his fellow sailors who were already lined up with the rest of the Sicario army.

"Are they always this many?" Rio asked when he saw the army get bigger than what he had cone seen.

Sure, he knew that Sicario had one of the greatest armies, but this was a little too much, even for them. you would think they were here to protect some sort of gold that was hidden or a treasure that no one was meant to find in Sicario.

"No. The other warriors are from Greyson. They share the same uniform since the white wolf mated with Alpha Greyson," Drew explained casually like it was supposed to make Rio feel any comfortable but the chaos within.

"You look like shit. I take it the talk with your mate didn't go well?" Drew asked like this was the most normal of times for them to be talking about his sailor's live life.

But then there was never going to be another chance because they would all probably end up dead anyway.

"Told him I loved him," Rio breathed and the sailors looked at him like they had heard him wrong.

Well, they were right to be skeptical because Rio was a complicated being, he was repulsive when it came to emotions and the fact that he was admitting to dropping the love bomb first was enough to make his fellow sailors worried about him.

Expectedly, they stared at him like the sun was about to shine from his ass, even though that wasn't making him feel any better. This was insanity at best, but weren't they all in some sort of insane situation at the moment anyway?

"Looks like the world is healing, my dear sailors," Drew said and they snickered at the statement.

It was always a statement that the captain always told them when they witnessed what always seems to be like a miracle. And if they were being honest, Rio and emotions in the same line wasn't something they had expected.

That in itself was a miracle on its own at the end of the day.

"Aren't you going to ask me if he said it back or rejected me?" Rio asked his excited friends.

"Anyone with eyes can see just how low the high warrior is for you. It's like the sun rises in your face and sets right here. He looked at you like the world could go to shit and you'd still remain the brightest star in his universe.

"He loves you, and probably can't live without you. We all see just how much he tries to tone down for you, how much he wants you to a comfortable in Sicario. His reputation as Alpha Awuor's most trusted warrior could to get the blind to see, because of just how scared they are of him.

"You defy him at every possible turn, make yourself a nuisance to him and yet here you are, standing on your two feet and without any bruises. If he wasn't in love with you, you would be camping in the dungeons that you wanted to be in earlier," Drew said.

Rio squinted his eyes at the captain. He hadn't even paid attention to how terrible a guest he had been to Theo, but now that his captain pointed it out, Rio wondered who else knew that the warrior was down so badly for him.

Perhaps he would have to figure it out, or maybe he just had to keep his promise to the warrior, the promise to make things right, and the promise to protect the warrior with all he had and didn't have. It wasn't such a hard bargain, but it was one nonetheless.

"But—"

"Oh, please. Why do you think the rowdy Sicario warriors have been nicer to you? They see you as one of their own, as someone important to them. They know what it means to have a mate since they are a part of a pack that believes in the sanctity of the mate bond, so this isn't surprising.

"You, my dear friend, are the luckiest sailor in the world right now. Who knows, the warriors might form a barrier around you to make sure you don't fail because they care about you and their leader," Drew added and Rio wanted so desperately to deny it.

He hated to say that that was all in Drew's head. He wanted to say that this was not what the truth dislikes but even he knew that it was what the truth looked like. He had done all sorts of things and didn't even get a reprimand from the alpha herself.

He had been crazy and yet he had been free the entire time. And even the warriors stood there waiting to fight, there was an obvious warmth from the warriors toward Rio, almost like they wanted nothing less than happiness for him and their leader.

Perhaps at the end of the day, happiness wasn't the one thing that would evade the sailor. He would always have a choice and a voice and if he failed to use it right, he would be a complete fuckup.

Well, maybe it was a good thing that Rio wasn't planning on screwing Theos' life at the moment.

"Well damn," Rio sighed before adding, "the Alpha and the Lycans look like they are coming to a slaughterhouse."

At Rio's statement, the warriors and the sailors looked at the leaders who were headed this way. With them was his dear mate, his Theodore, the man he had sworn to protect.

They looked like they were ready to rain hell on earth on the Russels and Rio felt himself a proud mate. He had known that Theo was already powerful and strong, but even with his armor, Rio couldn't help but get attracted to the warrior.

And the fact that Theo's lips were still swollen from their kiss made his heart flutter, you would think that the warrior was like that because Rio had given him armor to keep him safe.

Well, a love confession looked like a thousand reasons for Theo to fight the battle so well and win, right? Besides, they loved each other there was nothing for them to deny.

"I swear to love you all my life," Rio whispered as Theo neared him, smiles on his face like he was going to the training room.

"Always, Cinnamon, always," Theo said as he stood by just for a moment, to peck Rio's lips delicately before he pulled back gently and shouted at the warriors, "For Peace!!!"

"For Peace!!" They all chanted.