Chapter 110: If I Didn't Have You

[GREYSON]

"She is my best and most loyal frid. Of course, I would never leave her vulnerable to magic. No amount of magic will ever work on her, for as long as I live. And I don't plan on dying anytime soon anyway.

"Go home Malika, wherever that is," Hawi said dismissively as she walked out.

"The fuck you just say?" Malika asked angrily as she wt after Hawi. this wasn't a conversation she wasn't worried about having and in her anger, Malika used her magic to stop time, so that it would just be her and Hawi.

She may have switched bodies for a momt, but one thing about protectors was that their magic wt with them, no matter what body they claimed. It was a norm and so Hawi wasn't ev surprised at that.

"Are you deaf or what?" Hawi responded dismissively and Malika looked at her mistress like the woman needed to get some brain restructuring.

"Oh no, I'm not deaf, your fucking highness stringing along on a grief chariot. I just needed to hear what you just fucking said, so I would have a reason to kick your ass," Malika said angrily as she whipped out her sword and got ready to attack Hawi.

She knew her mistress was stressed about everything, but Malika had se Rukiya. She had se how the woman had be so worried and pressed about what was happing.

She knew that no one would ever be able to go against Hawi and get away with it and she knew that the woman was looking for a battle.

Malika was certain that that was why her mistress had be cruel to Rukiya, in the hope that Rukiya Greyson could say something, anything that could piss Hawi off ev more so Hawi could trigger a war.

However, Rukiya had be the opposite of what Hawi was expecting, and her ability to remain calm about Hawi's cruelty was something that pissed Malika off.

Someone needed to gage Hawi, to remind her that they wer't her emies and that she didn't have to be cruel to them, especially Rukiya of all the people. It was unfair on all gs and Malika seemed to have gott tired of it already.

"Nice try. Why are you so bothered anyway? The last time I checked, you wanted to kill her. Or perhaps you wanted to screw her giv you were fucking her with your eyes the whole time, no?" Hawi said carelessly, like she was not in the mood to play games with Malika.

Hawi knew she was being so cruel, but this was the only thing she wanted. Malika could either fight her or leave, and that didn't exactly seem like the best option for her right now.

"You little shit. I guess that's the same way you are blocking Rukiya from reaching out to you, again, no? Oh, I'm sorry, it must be tiring being the one with a million problems but with a girlfrid who fucking understands you, right?

"Hawi—" Malika tried, before she portaled them into Rukiya's office, locked the door, and undid the time stop.

Hawi was raging.

"No. You don't get to advocate for them. Not Papa and certainly not Dom. Pa fucking faked his death before. He fucking lied to me. I mourned him for months, only to realize he faked his death!

"An... And now... Now you tell me that D... That he is murdered by Papa, of all the dumb creatures out there? My brother is strong, he can hold his own, he may be an ass, sure, and he makes me want to kill him sometimes, but he wouldn't go down easily.

"I fucking trained him to be the best warrior, so I refuse that he wt down because of Pa. It just doesn't add up and you know it too. You go to know they're faking it. I know it, my brother is stronger than Papa.

"They're faking the death to get me to go home, but I won't," Hawi said desperately as she paced a the room.

She hated what she was feeling, how everything was coming down in a span of a few years, that this could be true and she wasn't ready to accept it.

"I am not going to go back there to mourn again. I won't. Not this time. If he is dead, th he can bury himself but I know he isn't dead. He can't be. Y'know, they fucking abandoned me.

They left me alone, and without a shoulder to lean on.

"He left me wh I needed him, and now he dies? That's absolute bullshit. I'm not buying it, and if you know what's good for you, don't believe it too," Hawi said, her tears showing.

"I guess my work here is done, Rukiya. Please take care of her," Malika said as she watched Ruru rush to Hawi and pull her into a hug.

"Yeah, I will," Rukiya said, as Malika and Mbali both created two portals to take them back to where they had be.

Adolf figured he wasn't needed there too, so he left.

"Ruru—"

"I won't let go, I promise."