Chapter 108: Sugar Rush Ride

[GREYSON]

Rukiya's office was awfully far at night, maybe because they had been in the farthest field, when Hawi decided to show how kind she was to strangers she didn't want to interact with.

There were so many whispers among the wolves as Rukiya walked ahead of her barbarian woman. She could smell Hawi's anger and emotional turmoil and she felt like this would take a lot. She wanted to understand Hawi, she really did.

But then Hawi Sicario wasn't the kind of woman who was an open book. Even in her grief, she was acting like the world was full of unicorns and pretty butterflies. She was not ready to face it all and that was going to be challenging even for Rukiya Greyson.

"She started it!'' Hawi said the moment they walked into Rukiya's office. She didn't even give them a chance to assess the damage on Malika's new face. She wanted to find an excuse and what better way than to point fingers when she was the one in the wrong?

Adolf looked like he wanted to be everywhere, but this room where two psychos happened to love each other and were now about to throw the dice on who was craziest. Perhaps he should have just stayed out of this, right?

Well, that would have been easier if he wasn't the Greyson beta and Rukiya's best friend anyway.

"Oop–" Mbali snickered and Rukiya gave her the stink eye, to which Mbali responded by raising her hands up in surrender.

"Started it? What are you? Five? Four?" Rukiya asked as she looked at her woman. The fact that the beauty before her had decided to go all unhinged was making Rukiya wonder what else was going on in Hawi's mind.

Adolf and Malika stared at the duo like chaos was about to brew, but then they couldn't leave because they had more pressing concerns about Hawi. They were worried sick for her and it was obvious that her ways of distracting herself could prove harmful to people.

Or just Malika, right?

"Fine. It was an accident. I threw the ball and it UNFORTUNATELY hit Sherry's niece. I'm sorry alright? Now can I please go back to playing ball? It's been a long since I was this free and with nothing to think about.

"Pretty please, Ruru?" Hawi said as she stared at Rukiya with puppy eyes like that was supposed to make the woman budge.

Well, in different situations, Rukiya could have let her be, but not in this one. There was more that they needed to work out and the longer Hawi postponed her grief and touch with reality, the longer it would take for her to cope with the loss.

"Baby," Rukiya said as she walked closer to Hawi, the distance between them so close that they could both breathe each other in.

She was desperate for more and she even let out a low warning growl.

It was one that Malika and Mbali knew so well, and they were already getting up to leave, but Rukiya raised her finger to stop them, while she was still staring into Hawi's beautiful eyes that were calling her in.

Malika and Mbali knew they didn't have a choice, so they went and sat back down. But that didn't even stop Hawi, as she leaned into Rukiya, once again, trying to reconnect their lips, but all she got was Rukiya's finger on her lips.

"I want more," Hawi whined and Rukiya looked at her tenderly, hoping that Hawi would be able to let her in. But then she had been around Awuor Hawi Sicario enough times to know that she wasn't going to open up just because of a kiss.

That was impossible in every way.

"I know. And I will give you more," Rukiya said, stroking Hawi's cheeks. She could see the hope in her woman's eyes, and she wanted to actually give in, but would that be wise for the both of them, especially right now?

"Mmh," Hawi nodded in response as she waited for the more that Rukya had promised.

"But first," Rukiya said gently, before adding with a commanding tone, "Sit your fucking ass down, baby. We have a meeting."

"Wh... B... You–" Hawi let out, clearly not expecting to be shut down like that, but Rukiya Greyson had made up her mind.

"Want me to help you to your seat?" Rukiya asked with a warning in her tone, and Hawi knew that this wasn't the time for her to want a kiss. But she would get it later.

She didn't care what happened at this goddamn meeting.

She was going to get that kiss, that much she was certain of.

"I'm sat," Hawi said with a pout as she sat next to Adolf who was still trying to process what the fuck had just happened. Maybe he would need a few business days to get his mind in order because that was intense.

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[A/N]

* Currently touching grass, see you Friday, sigh