Chapter 57: Loyalty Begot Loyalty

[AWUOR]

"Where can I find alpha Awuor? I know she's not dead. The sooner you get me those answers the sooner you find your way back to your people," Rukiya said, her tone going from defeat to that of the alpha.

"Why, so you can hurt her too? We didn't know whether she was alive or dead, but the only way we are telling you where she may be, is if you search in your life never to hurt her. If you promise to look out for her and never let her get into harm's way.

"Otherwise, you might as well kill us now, but do know that more will always fight for her. We know her for the alpha she is, was, and will always be in our hearts. The alpha who did everything to save us.

"There is just no way she killed her mother, she loved luna Eniola too much. So which is it going to be, alpha Rukiya?

"Your answers for the price of our true alpha's safety and the promise of being on her side, or you can end the interrogation and go back to Greyson and be your people's alpha?" One of the prisoners said with conviction and determination that Rukiya looked like she wanted to know more.

If Awuor had been that good an alpha, why was it so easy for her father and her people to cast her out? Why was it so easy for her brother to lust for more power? Why was it so easy for the world to banish her and look at the young alpha differently?

Awuor Sicario was clearly loved by her people because this was the second day she was here with the prisoners and their loyalty to Awuor was intact. It was almost like they weren't scared to lay down their lives for her. In Rukiya's experience, it was loyalty that begot loyalty.

And knowing the Sicario wolves, they didn't become the greatest pack of all time by just worshiping their leaders. They had their own minds and most of them knew the difference between right and wrong.

Right now, the people here in this shelter seemed overly convinced that Awuor Hawi was never a bad person. No prisoner would lay down their life for a ruler who didn't care for them and so the questions began for alpha Rukiya.

Who was she supposed to trust this time?

"I wont hurt her, I won't do anything to her. I just want to see her again. Is that enough for you?" Rukiya asked and Awuor almost choked in her pretend sleep. She knew better than to fall asleep in a shelter that she wasn't sure was safe for her.

She knew Malika was in her state too, even though they both wanted the same thing. Their mission this time was to find out why Rukiya was so adamant on finding Awuor so much that she was risking having Sicario wolves in the same spot as her.

He was right to be worried though, because at the moment, no one knew where Hawi was. There were speculations and most believed she was dead.

Maybe it was right that they let the dead remain dead. Maybe then, they would finally go back to their people and lead their lives as usual.

Rukiya looked at her healer and her beta, before she looked at the two prisoners who weren't going to try and relent.

She knew that they were smart, and that just like how Adolf would follow her to the ends of the world, these two prisoners would go to the ends of the world for Hawi.

They would do whatever it took to make sure that their alpha was protected, and that alone kept Rukiya on the edge of her seat. She had been thinking a lot and maybe she had finally made her decision.

"Alpha Awuor is dead, and you have no proof of life, otherwise you would have not come to us," Rukiya said to the two prisoners who just scoffed at her. Seriously she wasn't that dumb, or was she?

"In that case, you wouldn't mind if we take our lives here now, would you?" the other prisoner who had been silent said and Rukiya raised a brow at the two of them. They were really unhinged, but were they?

Was this just another way of coercing the alpha to bind herself to the most dangerous oath on the face of the earth?

Would it really make sense for them to even think like that?

"By all means, go ahead," Adolf said at the same time that Rukiya spoke, and boy did they look at her in shock.

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A/N

What could Rukiya have said to make them that shocked lol?