The Rejected Alpha's Vengeance

[GREYSON - HUDHAYFAH]

"I do understand," Draffin said.

"Then I promise I will keep our daughter safe, as long as I need to," Razia said as she watched her mate break through the windows and disappear into the woods.

"Mama?" Rukiya called out to her mother making Razia stare at the door, worriedly. She hadn't imagined that her daughter would come to her at this time, but then there were rogues outside and her father was nowhere to be seen.

"What is it, girl? It's too early for me to hear your voice," Razia grumbled as she used her magic to clean the space so it wouldn't seem like she was a part of the mess outside. She knew it was a matter of time before her daughter came, but not this soon.

"I'm sorry, mama, but can I get in?" Rukiya asked and her mother just growled in warning. Making her daughter back off.

"Oh… I won't come in then. Have you… Have you seen Father? He is missing and there was a group of rogues looking for him," Rukiya explained and Razia facepalmed, when the hell did her daughter get this smart?

"I have been here all morning I doubt I know whatever the fuck your father does in his spare time. Don't look for me. You can find him on your own. And don't come back here," Razia said cruelly and her daughter just sighed.

To Rukiya, this was normal. Her mother was always treating her like shit, and her father was always trying to make her feel better after that. But right now, Rukiya knew something was amiss.

There was a shift and one so sudden that she felt the winds get knocked out of her. It was like it needed her attention but she wasn't sure what it was. Maybe her mother was right, there was no point in standing there waiting for nothing.

"I'm sorry, mama. Have a good day," Rukiya said, her footsteps fading in the distance while her mother just stood near the window as she stared into the distance. She knew that her husband was definitely fighting for his life and she hated that this happened.

She hated that Draffin had let his life be the price for their daughter's life. Razia knew she would be lonely without Draffin and that pissed her off. All she had wanted was happiness and her daughter had taken that from her.

The news of Alpha Draffin spread fast across Greyson, and with the shadow warlocks upsetting the balance of the realm, everyone easily believed that the alpha died because of his involvement with the rogues.

The explanations came and spread quickly and it was nothing like what they had imagined, but then no one could ask shit, because they were under a spell. Rukiya could fight it, but she didn't know what power she held then.

And the fact that her magic had been locked didn't make it any easier for her.

So, like everyone, she became part and parcel of the reality their mother had created, one that tarnished the good alpha's reputation and one that made the good alpha into a devil that no one wanted to interact with, not even the memories.

The rumors were harmful to Rukiya even as she tried her best to keep Greyson safe. Her mother never came forward even after her husband's death. She never attended the funeral and never bothered to say his last rites.

She was truly grieving and she hated everything that Rukiya did. She blamed her daughter for her father's death for years on end, and Rukiya knew that nothing she did would ever get her in her mother's good graces.

It was a horrifying truth, but it was one that she was sure she had to accept. Besides, it wasn't like the world would wait for her to get over her mother's hate for her, right? Life had to go on and Greyson had to move forward.

It didn't matter that her heart was broken every single rejection from her mother, but then what else could she do anyway? She had to fight for Greyson. She had to fight to make Greyson better than what the realm knew of.

Unlike what Draffin and Razia had expected, Rukiya didn't fall apart because of the greatest loss she ever experienced in her life. Instead, Rukiya spent her life trying to prove that she was nothing like her father, the worst of traitors.

It wasn't the easiest thing for her, distancing herself from her father in public, while in private, in her chambers, she cried the night away, watching the word go by, while she was stuck mourning her father, for the good man he was.

Rukiya knew things didn't add up about her father's death but she never raised questions, because then it would be like she was challenging the highest power in the realm. It was cruel, and it broke her heart one too many times.

A few months after the passing of alpha Greyson, Luna Razia stepped out, but only because her best friend, Eniola, had come to pay her a visit. She had missed her and hoped that this would give her a break from all that was happening.

Eniola was already mated and married to the Sicario alpha, the same pack that rivaled Greyson. Rukiya had by then done her homework on the alpha there and it was safe to say that she liked their daughter, the fierce Awuor Sicario.

It was a harmless attraction, and Rukiya never paid too much attention to it. However, her mother had been watching. With Eniola's visit, Razia Greyson knew that fate was never going to leave her be.

Razia knew that the world was never going to stop going round, just because she had killed her husband, because her best friend had come to her, with news that the younger Sicario, the girl everyone was scared of, was the white wolf.

Razia had begun noticing her daughter and she knew that Rukiya was somewhat attracted to the wild Sicario girl. Granted, she couldn't exactly walk over to Rukiya and ask her if she really liked Eniola's daughter, but Razia hated this new reality.

She had worked her ass off to keep the fates on the sidelines, but then she had failed, because her daughter was attracted to her mate, her chosen mate, one that the fates had prepared for her since time immemorial.

To Razia, it wasn't fair, especially when she realized that her dutiful alpha of a daughter would occasionally sneak out of the Greyson pack, just to go watch the younger Sicario fight.

She hated that her daughter was mesmerized by the very reason she had killed her husband. So, over time, Razia started growing closer to her daughter. She hoped that maybe, if she was a good mother to Rukiya, her daughter would let her in.

And it worked.

Rukiya had always been alone and now her mother was suddenly showing interest in her.

Her mother was advising her, giving her compliments on her work, and frankly, the young alpha was high over the moon finally her prayers were being answered and her mother was liking her.

But at what cost?