The Rejected Alpha's Vengeance

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THREE HUNDRED YEARS LATER

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[SICARIO]

"Did you hear the news?" a frustrated Adolf said as he plopped on the seat in the council room. It was the room they had set up for all their meetings and for anything that mattered to the pack they had been left to handle.

"What did you do this time?" Zaniel asked as he walked in towards his mate. He knew Adolf was always finding himself in trouble, but when it was expected. The man was a perfectionist in most cases and they clashed with Elodie one too many times.

However, thankfully there was nothing they couldn't handle really. It was like they were siblings just bickering at every chance they got and the Savasci knights had already gotten used to it.

It wasn't new to them and it was comforting, to say the least. It reminded them of so many things that they had been doing long before they had been left to run the new Sicario. It hadn't been an easy task for sure.

"Don't look at me… I haven't bickered with him for two days now," Elodie said defensively and the group just laughed. They had been so used to Elodie and Adolf bickering that this wasn't news to them.

"Alright then, Adolf, what news is it this time?" Malika asked once everyone had settled. Adolf had been the one to call them and he sounded like the world was collapsing at their feet, and even worse, that it was his fault that all of that happened.

"The werewolf queen has to be a devil, you know? She said that we need to do the evaluation again and send the reports in two weeks. We have thirty thousand wolves in the new Sicario.

"How the fuck are we supposed to do the submissions in that time? And do you know the worst part of it all? She wants me to meet Kadiam at the border of Olyana. That woman is a devil, I swear," Adolf whined, and the knights stared at him in confusion.

There had to be a misunderstanding somewhere. That was not possible. What the queen was asking of them did not make any sense, logically and in any manner. That was a lot of work to handle in two weeks, given how rigorous things had gotten last.

"She must hate us so badly that woman," Rio whined as he stared at Malika, almost like he was asking Malika to intervene for them. Ever since Hawi had left them, their lives had gotten awfully difficult because of the new queen.

Of course, at first, they had thought that Awuor Hawi was the queen. Seeing as it was her birthright as the white wolf, but the entire realm hadn't seen Hawi in over three hundred years.

The officials in Olyana had stopped sending the warriors a hundred years ago when they had failed to find her for over two hundred years. Bounties had been provided, so many people had been given the chance to find Hawi, and none of them had shown up with Hawi.

Hell, they had even put up a rumor that Jer had hurt Elodie, seeing asthma was the only thing that could get Awuor Hawi out of hiding or whatever she was doing, but Hawi never once showed up. Stay updated with My Virtual Library Empire

It is like she has disappeared. Granted, they could have thought that Hawi was dead, but really, for the Savasci knights, she was still alive. It was dormant, but it was there for them to feel.

It was the easiest way for them to know if anything had happened to Hawi, and if they had gotten anything. Oh, they had suffered in the hands of the new queen.

"Can you talk to her for us, Malika? When you go for the monthly briefings, please tell her that Sicario is a good place and we haven't had any trouble with anyone since Hawi left. Tell her that we will follow all the rules like we have always been doing.

"Hell, tell her that the population has grown by five thousand in the past three hundred years. Surely, we controlled everything, she can't be making us suffer like that, right?" Theo pleaded and Hudhayfah just chuckled at their statements.

He understood them well and he knew that this was the craziest they had ever gotten to a queen. The werewolf queen was out for them and their blood, there was no doubt about that.

Everything they had done according to the rules. It's like nothing ever made any sense to her and she was praising them for too long.

"Come on Hudhayfah, surely someone can make this better, right?" Adolf pleaded and the healer just laughed again. So much time had passed and they had been good, but the queen was not seeing that.

The fact that they never knew who the werewolf queen was, save for Malika was also eating them up. Sicario was the largest territory in the entire realm and yet the werewolf queen had never once set foot in the pack.

It was like she hated Sicario for some reason. But then that wouldn't even make any sense because they hadn't done anything that would warrant the harsh treatment, right?

"We can't do anything to stop her, we just have to endure it for a while longer. She has just been the queen for two hundred and forty years and she is probably learning what it means.

"Besides, the last time we were at the council table, they said that Sicario had committed so many crimes that they were under watch all the time. They wanted to press on more regulations to us, but I bargained for that.

"They wanted us to never leave Sicario and be tapped, which is something you wildlings wouldn't accept. I knew that would result in a revolution and then she settled for this. We can hold on for a little longer.

"Besides, don't you guys want to see Hawi come and defend us from the queen?" Malika asked and they stared at her like she had just accused them of the worst of things. Then again, they knew she was right.

The rules were a little challenging for them and they have always been on the wrong side of everything. With Hawi, there was never a red tape for them. The Savasci knights were always free to do whatever it took as long as they enforced the law.

There was never someone to determine what they did was right or wrong, as long as the outcome was what was desired by their mission Hawi was the law and Hawi was not with them anymore which was more depressing for them.

"You don't have to say it like that. This queen Kia is a bitch, that is the simple and plain truth. I bet you a thousand gold bars that she doesn't treat other factions like this, she just wants us to be suffering and in pain all the time.

"How the fuck can a queen just be that cruel. Surely the moon goddess can give us someone who loves her people right?" Zane said and they all sighed collectively.

There was always more to this and they hated that this time, they were being micromanaged. This new queue had been a pain in their ass from the moment she had ascended the throne.

She had done everything to make it seem like the leaders of Sicario weren't doing enough for a population that big.

They were suffering, there was no other definition for what they were going through, and the fact that Hawi was never showing up for them was a bummer.

That girl had inspired courage and strength in them but there was only so much that they could keep at this when the new queen was testing their patience all the time. It was like the woman was enjoying making them suffer like this.

"Malika is right. If Hawi would come back and realize we are just wimps who can't even lead our people right, she wouldn't be disappointed. If we want her to show up for us and fight for us, then we need to be resilient and prove to the queen that we can do this.

"That we can exceed the expectations. We have to be within the rules and see to it that our people don't suffer. Besides, it's not like she is terrorizing Sicario. She is just terrorizing us, the Sicario leadership," Sherry said and they stared at her in defeat.

They knew she had a point, but that didn't make it any easier for them to accept the fact that the woman was a bully and a big one Queen Kia had made the suffering worse than all the wars Hawi had made them fight through.

They shall endure lost dog shit in their lives, but none would ever be a match to the madness they had been exposed to because of this insane queen. Someone truly needed to keep Queen Kia in check… but who was that courageous?

"So, we all agree that this queen is the devil, right?" Adolf asked and they just laughed again. This wasn't as easy for them as they would have thrift and they couldn't deny that their lives had gotten a lot harder without their friends.

"What if we give her Jer? That man is in the dungeons and hasn't said a word since Hawi left. Maybe we can offer him up as a trade, and say he was the one who killed Rukiya. Surely that should get that queen off our backs, even for a moment, no?" Theo asked earnestly.