Chapter 65: Quite The Good Night, No?

[RUKIYA]

With Hawi and her protectors gone, Rukiya, her team, and her prisoners stood there staring at each other like they didn't know what they needed to do.

Adolf was still raging because of Hawi's unthankful nature, while Hudhayfah had long given up fighting the banished alpha, because he already knew that he would be seeing more of her, even with her rebellion.

The Sicario prisoners were excited and while they wanted to go with their leader, they were aware that their mission was complete and didn't care what chaos followed after this.

The only important thing to them was that their alpha was alive, healthy and in good hands, not to mention her madness hadn't changed even once. It was a good evening for them and if they had a chance they would offer sacrifices to the goddess to show their appreciation.

"She's still flawless as always," Rukiya said thoughtfully as she looked in the direction of where Hawi and her protector had disappeared. She didn't seem bothered by the fact that the psycho alpha had just ignored her and probably made her look stupid with the blood oath or anything.

To Rukiya Greyson, it was like she had gotten a new bout of fresh air and it was worrying. Adolf looked at his best friend, silently questioning where the badass Rukiya was and what had happened to her.

Then again, as someone who had seen Rukiya through the years, he knew that his alpha had fallen so hard for the mistress of chaos and vengeance, and it was just a matter of time before Rukiya got her heart broken.

The worst part of it all was that Adolf wouldn't be able to do shit to help Rukiya then. He just had to let everything play out and that made him feel like they were about to be walking on literal fire because of the two women.

"Goddess please have mercy on us all," was all Adolf let out, before they walked back to the shelter, leaving Rukiya standing there in the night like the moon was suddenly so interesting.

He wanted to bug her a little but he couldn't, because he knew that this time he needed to let Rukiya do this on her own. Besides, she was always going to be level-headed after some time anyway.

That night, Rukiya Greyson didn't sleep. Instead, she had been thinking of different strategies to take over Sicario. It was almost like the mission was more than personal for her. She was analyzing Jer and Elodie's actions during the war in her head.

She was trying to see what fit where and who she would begin with if ever Hawi had called upon her army given their circumstances. Rukiya was thinking of the older Sicario alpha, a man who had been ready to die for his lands, and yet refused to believe in his daughter.

"Yes, Adolf. I'll take care of her Even just for tonight, you can rest assured that I'll take good care of her. I won't be doing this when the sun rises thru. So go, warrior, get some sleep and I'll be here with her," Hawi said again and Adolf raised another brow at the woman.

The fact that there was sincerity in Hawi's voice confused him even more. This woman was sitting at the same table as the devil and now she was suddenly feeling empathetic if she couldn't even muster a thank you?

"Where's Malika?" Adolf asked like that was supposed to mean anything to him or even Hawi.

"Sleeping like everyone else. You should sleep... Tomorrow might be busy. I won't hurt her, I promise alright?" Ha insisted and Rukiya looked at her with a blank face.

"Go, Adolf. If she tries anything, I am just as strong a fighter as she is. I can handle myself," Rukiya said to Adolf who still looked like he needed a lot of convincing to leave Rukiya with the mad woman.

"Oh, Rukiya, you care too much about this... If you want to come to war with me, you must promise to choose mind over matter, and everything else, including the heart.

"You can't fight beside me, if you're always going to let everyone read through you like an open book," Hawi said softly to Rukiya, as she removed a stray strand of hair on Rukiya's face, once Adolf was gone.

It was almost like she too cared about Rukiya, but that was impossible, right?

"I don't know what you're talking about," Rukiya reiterated, as she faltered back. she wasn't sure where she was headed, but a little further so Hawi wouldn't hear her fast heartbeats that were betraying her face right now.

She wasn't sure what they were both doing, or even what had happened, to get them this close that they could almost feel each other's breaths. Rukiya wanted to blame it on the night and the cold weather, but was that really it for them?

"That's how it should be, even on the battlefield," Hawi said, as she put a hand on Rukiya's waist, to stop Rukiya from falling over in the muddy patch behind her.

"If you keep worrying about me too much, you might have wrinkles, and I'm not planning on having a wrinkly mate, when my war is over, alright?" Hawi breathed ever so slowly on Rukiya's face, before kissing Rukiya's forehead, an action that not only shocked Rukiya, but also Hawi herself, and the mad woman suddenly had to rush back to her shelter with Malika.

'What just happened?'