Chapter 135: Booked A Dance With A Ghost
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"You're crazy. You don't get a seat at the table," Jer said with a tone of finality.
"Then don't blame me if Malika starts acting bipolar. You know, like one moment she's the Malika everyone knows, and the next, she's this powerful woman, definitely possessed, since normal Malika doesn't even know how to brush her hair perfectly.
"But hey. I'm not fit for a seat at the table right?" Hawi tormented, knowing it would screw with Jer's mind.
"What?" Jer asked, thinking back to the strange commanding voice Malika had used when she silenced the whole room earlier. It was not normal and he was worried for his mate.
Maybe he was just not ready to think that Malika could be that powerful, but what would he do when the truth was staring at him in the form of Malika's sword?
"Ooohh…. So, she has started acting strange. That is just perfect for me. I just have to get her to anger the most powerful bitch in the whole realm and everything will be fine right?
"I bet Rukiya Greyson wants to mop the floor with your dear Malika's face right now. I wonder what Elodie will do if she is faced with saving her Luna from Rukiya and saving herself from Rukiya Greyson.
"Do you really think your new beta would go against that psycho, Rukiya, for a Luna who can't do shit for herself?" Hawi added and Jer was getting more and more worried.
Hawi was making guesses and she didn't know what was happening out there, but then she had played enough manipulation games in her lifetime to know how Jer's mind worked.
She also knew that Malika would be bothered since she had felt Hawi's pain earlier. It was all just the perfect mix to drive the alpha crazy. But did Hawi even care about that, especially now that she was trying to understand her father?
'Hawi?' Sicario finally responded to his daughter whose attention instantly shifted to him, muting out all the voices that were around them.
It had been two years since the last time she heard her father's voice and there was a safety that came with it. It made her feel like she was never going to be alone.
There was a kind of comfort that only a father could give and staring at her father right now, Hawi knew she would be okay. Besides, her father always knew what to do, and say to her.
'Papa,' Hawi said softly to her father who was in terrible shape. She wanted to hug him and let him know that she would be winning the battle for him, that she would free him even if it was the last thing she would do.
'Let me heal you Pa. We don't have much time, but I can fix you,' Hawi said, as she looked at her father's sunken eyes. He was tired and that much was obvious, but Hawi also knew her father was sick of the pain he was feeling.
'I'm fine, child. You'll need your energy in the coming days. Where is your protector?' Sicario asked as he studied his daughter. His little girl had grown up and he was a proud father.
He loved her so much he could protect her if he had to. But then he had done his best when he handed his child over to the protectors of the realm. They were the only people he was sure would protect Hawi.
Granted, they would probably protect Hawi for their selfish reasons, but they would protect his child nonetheless.
'Handling issues on the surface. She's currently married to Jer,' Hawi said and her father looked at her like he was about to have a heart attack. Hawi had so many things she needed to say to her father, but she needed to first get him out of there.
'I'm sorry, I failed to protect you, my little Hawi,' Sicario said dejectedly as he had completely failed the mission. But then his little girl was here, alive and well.
She was still as powerful as before, so there was no reason for the alpha to doubt, but what if there was?
'No, papa. She's married to Jer because of a plan we have in place. She's doing it to protect me. Don't worry, she would die before she lets anyone harm me. I'm fine, Pa. You didn't fail,' Hawi said sadly, and reassuringly.
'And Olyana?'
'Yeah she took me there for training,' Hawi said curiously, not understanding where this conversation was headed. They would have a lot of time once out of here, so what was the point in hurrying, right?
'Then I can die peacefully,' Sicario said as he eyed the blade that was poking Hawi. the determination on his face was scary and Hawi didn't pick-up right-on time, because she just stared at him, wondering what the fuck the man meant by that.
The first thing Hawi wanted to ask was whether her father was sick, but then even with his broken trachea, Malika's magic would be able to heal him and restore him to his original state.
'What?' Hawi asked, only to be pushed roughly to the side, as her father grabbed the spinning blade and thrust it into his heart, shocking everyone. Of the things Awuor Hawi had expected at her first reunion with father dearest, his suicide hadn't been it.
"Noo!!!" Hawi screamed in anger and frustration as she saw her father die right before her. Her scream created a huge blast and the dungeons began crumbling. Everything was coming apart.
However, that wasn't important at the moment. She looked at her father, as the blood spilled from his body, till he fell lip, dead. Hawi had been in shock and hadn't yet comprehended what the hell had just happened.
One thing that she knew of, was that this shouldn't have happened.
Her father shouldn't have died like this.
Not when she had finally connected the dots and had come to save her. Her anger that she had when she came to seek her father out for her brother's murder was long gone, and in its place, was the fury of a raging white wolf.
Oh, but Awuor Hawi was mad.
"Dude, you want to bury us alive here?" Dom asked as he looked at her.
'I'll never forgive you for this, ever,' Hawi defeatedly whispered, as she looked at her dead father.
"A seat at the table. Do I have it or not?" Hawi asked angrily, as her eyes turned red, and her white hair began turning red from the anger she was feeling. She was furious and wanted blood.
"What the fuck was that?" An older woman showed up when she felt the tunnels crumbling. The empire they had struggled to build under her was crumbling, but the woman at the center of it all hadn't even started tearing them apart.
"The bitch wants a seat at the table, Ajuoga," Dom said and the woman just chuckled darkly as she stared Hawi down.
"Who the fuck is she to demand a seat at the table with me?" Ajuoga asked and Hawi stared at them. There already were sharp blades forming from her father's blood and she wasn't even doing anything.
It was her anger and her magic that were doing the subconscious construction. Her father's last breath, replaying in her head, was the straw for Hawi as she started pushing the blades and spikes toward the trio before her.
She was done playing nice with a bunch of people who had worked so hard to take both her parents from her. She had deserved a family and yet her brother had managed to take that too for her.
Hawi wasn't going to forgive them, and she wasn't going to forget what happened here. Hell, the entire realm would remember what it meant to cross Awuor Hawi Sicario. Until then, she still had a bargain to strike.
"A seat at the table," Hawi growled out as she watched them squirm in realization. To them, she was just another powerful Lycan, one on a mission and one who had failed her mission.
"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.
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[A/N]
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