Chapter 136: Betrayal’s Awfully Familiar Face
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"Are you crying? For a man you were sent to retrieve? You must be crazy," Jer said casually as he pretended like he wasn't affected by what he was seeing. But he was, and Hawi could hear his heartbeats beating so loudly in his head.
"I can smell your fear, Jeremiah Warner," Hawi said as she made steps towards them, the tears from her eyes clouding her sight, but she knew that there was only one thing she wanted right now.
Vengeance.
"Ajuoga, do something!!" Dom said when he realized how dire the situation was.
Things were getting a little out of hand and he hadn't expected this. Well, he hadn't expected a whole lot of things and more specifically his sister's doppelganger showing up was definitely on top of the list of the unexpected.
Whatever was happening, Dom knew he was fucked and he needed to think of a way out. And the warlock with them was definitely it for them, or their doom. It all just depended on whatever the hell they would do and how fast they were. NovelFire-the-story-platform
"She can't beat me, BROTHER. She can never beat me, because no one has ever defeated me. No one. A seat at the table, or I kill you and take the entire table for myself. Decide fast," Hawi said as she glared at them.
She knew she sounded obsessed with whatever that table was, but it was the only way for her to get into the specifics of the horrors that had happened in Sicario on the night she found her claws retracting from her mother's neck.
It wasn't something easy for her, but then losing her father right in front of her, had been the last straw for the Alpha who tried to lead a normal life in exile.
"You're crazy, woman. You're even blending into my sister's identity? Oh, you're crazy, really crazy," Dom said and Hawi chuckled darkly. Her brother hadn't seen whatever she was about to do yet, and he was already fretting. What a coward.
"Stop being this reckless, woman," Jer said as he looked at the woman before them.
Hawi had blasted some of the ice particles tinier so they were breathing it.
With her magic, she was protected, but as for the trio here, no matter what their answer was, the particles that contained her father's blood and pain would be in their system and she would make sure to ruin their lives slowly.
The blood particles were dangerous, given that these people were no match for Hawi's magic or her father's powers. That meant that she had simply concocted a breathable poison for the trio.
The kind of poison that would eat their insides ever so slowly and take them out. It was the poison that would never have a cure because Hawi Sicario wasn't going to be showing anyone mercy.
"Fine fine. You can join us, goddammit. Please don't use your blood rage on us!" Ajuoga said as she created a portal that was to take them out of the fingers and bring them back to the pack house and more specifically the alpha's office.
It was a quick escape from the crumbling dungeons that had gotten worse with every breath that Hawi took. It was almost like she was so done with them and was determined to take them out.
Ajuoga knew something, a possible reality that would snap the best friends back to life and turn them into whatever the hell Hawi wanted. Perhaps she would escape first. Right?
"The blood rage?" Dom asked worriedly. He had never heard of a blood rage, but he had a feeling it was the kind of rage that wouldn't do any of them any good, especially with where they were.
No one ever mentioned the blood rage in the books he had read, but then it had been a while since he paid attention to the books. His sister's leaving had made it a little hard for him to concentrate on learning more.
However, what if the warlock with them was just bluffing to make it seem that they were scared when they weren't?
What if they were pulling Hawi's leg? But then with the states they were in and the dead Sicario Alpha's blood forming thicker blades, it was a long shot.
"Yes, go through the damn portal already, this place is crumbling for fucks sake," Ajuoga said to the duo and they didn't waste any time in going through.
They needed to be safe for their plans to work, and if this woman was as dangerous as the warlock was saying, then they needed to be out of here as soon as yesterday. The passage for Jer and Dom was easy.
However, when the time came for Ajuoga to go through the portal, Jer clawed his hand, making it bleed, before he shook his blood through the portal, making it impassable for Ajuoga.
No one ever went through a portal that had been tainted by blood, especially if it wasn't blood that had been seen before the portal was created.
Jeremiah Warner had just betrayed the warlock who could have helped them on the other side, but then it seemed like he sacrificed Ajuoga to distract Hawi from coming after them.
However, who was to tell the dumb alpha that there was nothing on the face of the earth and even the heavens that would stop the bloodbath that was coming for them?
"Nooo!!!" the warlock screamed as she watched the portal she created disappear and even burn her hands in the process.
She had been betrayed by the same people she had betrayed Hawi for.
Hawi, who was watching the whole thing, just let out a dark chuckle as the warlock's eyes widened. The poor woman knew she was down for and knew that no matter what would happen, she wasn't going to come out of this alive.
The dice had been cast and the two friends had cast her aside, south gigs that weren't even surprising to Hawi.
"It's just you and me, now, Nana," Hawi said as the ground shook.
The woman before her was their house warlock, a woman her mother had trusted and loved like a sister.
Ajuoga had been one of the key advisors on Luna Eniola's team.
She had been treated and given power, yet as it was, she had betrayed Hawi and the house Sicari, for people who wouldn't even have her back when the battle came to. It was like she had been wasted and nothing she did would ever change that.
Then again, Hawi was not going to think of that.
The only thing she saw when she looked at the woman before her, was the audacity the bitch had to betray the one woman who was also way pure at heart, a woman who had spread nothing but love and light in the entire Sicario.
Thinking of her mother made Hawi want to kill this woman quickly and easily, but would she grant Ajuoga that mercy? Or any mercy for that matter?
"What?" Ajuoga asked and Hawi just laughed angrily, before she directed all the blades towards the woman, making sure to stab her with as many as possible.
She used so much force that he could see the woman's blood sputtering, but Hawi didn't care about that.
"Oh, you're not going to die from this, Nana. Not yet."