The Rejected Alpha's Vengeance

[RUSSEL]

The Russell siblings were on their way to the west where they could feel their brother's signature coming from.

They had considered leaving Nikolai in the hands of the Savasci knights but then they reconsidered because if they were being honest with each other, any of them could have been in Nikolai's position.

Truly, they wouldn't have wished to be left in the hands of their enemies.

Besides, they were powerful enough to fight the Savasci knights too, right? Well, that was something they would debate about later but until then they would get their brother and end this long battle once and for all.

While their caravan was on its way, Amina was stuck in her thoughts of one particular girl, one that she had been regretting leaving for the past three months.

Amina had a lot of things going on in her mind and frankly, she wished she could settle all of that and empty her brain so she would just be thinking about just Mbali.

Maybe that made her a terrible person but then what the fuck was she supposed to do when her heart was beating for someone else? How was she supposed to make it make sense when her world seemed to be revolving around the prettiest Lycan she had laid her eyes on?

"I feel like we're closing in on where Nik is at the moment. It's just a matter of time before we find those women and finish this once and for all. I hope you don't have any prejudices about the mission, Amina," Alex said as he looked at his quiet sister.

Amina had been silent for the better part of the day, not even indulging in the meeting like she always had. She had changed a lot since coming from Mbali and her brothers had seen that more than once.

Granted, she never objected to their mission and what they were supposed to be doing, but then her silence had been a little too loud.

"Are you assuming I will jeopardize the mission because of a woman who doesn't even want me?" Amina asked, displeased as she glared at her brothers. She couldn't believe that they were even thinking of this.

It was not what she had been expecting but surely they could give her the benefit of the doubt right? Then again, a benefit of the doubt sounded like disrespect for Amina because she had done nothing to make her brothers start suspecting where her allegiance lay.

She, just like all of them, had sacrificed her happiness and done things that the universe would probably never forgive her for. She had been there with them and this was not the best of things that had been suggested for her.

"You know I didn't mean it like that," Alex said and Amina frowned at him, daring him to say another word that would make Amina feel shittier than she was already feeling at the moment.

She had let her woman go, she had let her happiness go because of them and they had some nerve.

"Do I? You all think I'm going to turn out like Razia don't you? That's why you've been walking on eggshells around me? You're worried I'll take a dip like my sister dearest and make a run for the hills with the love of my life yeah?" Amina asked and this time she looked down at her siblings.

They hadn't gone through all that shit just for them to end up at this point. Hell, they hadn't even found a way to get to Nik and they were already at odds? This was disappointing.

"Isn't that why you've been silent all this while?" Seb asked and Amina just scoffed while Trey sighed as he stared at his brother, the disappointment and disbelief clear on his face.

He couldn't believe that after everything, just wasn't what they had been reduced to. It just didn't make any sense and frankly, it was not fair to their family as a whole.

They had gone through so much together, for them to be reducing themselves to whatever the fuck this was, because one thing was certain, this wasn't how they had promised each other they would be by their sides.

"How about we stop thinking like assholes and appreciate the fact that Amina had the choice to stay with her mate, give them all our secrets, and help them come after us and instead chose to come back home?

"You think it's easy letting someone you love walk away because loving them will make the family weak? You think it's easy choosing a bunch of assholes over love, genuine love, just because Mother dearest trained us into believing that we would never make it out alive as long as the white wolf lived?

"Have you ever considered why Razia left us for her happiness? Or even why she protected her daughter from us even though the kid was probably the only good thing in her life?

"Have you ever stopped to think about how hard it was for Razia to choose us over her own child? Did it ever occur to you that we so much damage to ourselves than to the realm?

"That we have mastered the art of being too toxic that we fail to realize just how much that shit fucked us up daily?" Trey asked angrily while his siblings stared at him in shock.

In all the time they had been together which was technically their entire lives they had never heard Trey say shit like that. He was always composed, always the rational one, always the one who cared and made sure that they were okay.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

Trey always trained because he never wanted them to worry. He had always been the silent one which made this even more confusing.

Perhaps it was that bad.

Perhaps they had crossed a line, and forced the silent one to speak because it sure seemed like the only option available to them at the moment, right?

It just didn't make any sense to Trey and no matter what angle he looked at it all from, he couldn't understand what it was that could have forced Alex into treating their sister like that.

Amina deserved better and they all knew it. At least if they were brothers who understood each other, that is.

"Trey, don't—" Amina said and Alex glared at their youngest brother in disappointment, but then that didn't seem to matter to Trey because shit had already happened and nothing was ever going to make this any better.

They could battle it out, but as long as they didn't understand what the fuck was going on with each other and how to work it out without conflict, there was never going to be an easier way out of this.

They would be at each other's throats whether they wanted to or not.

"What the fuck do you even know about mating bonds and love?" Alex asked with a growl. He couldn't believe that his baby brother had grown up enough to even start questioning them.

Maybe Alex was missing out on the fact that they were all well past a thousand years old and could easily make their own decisions. Things were not looking up as they would have expected but there was no type of hell that would be kinder to them if they continued like this.

"You didn't just ask me that," Trey growled out in warning.