[HAWI]
Hawi wasn't shocked by what they saw in the presented footage. She had expected it, just like she had expected that her people would disown her a second time. She was done signing to get the favor of the Sicario wolves anyway.
This time she would stay silent and let them do what they wanted, but she was never going to admit to guilt anymore. She wasn't going to let them push her to that corner anymore which was also why when the gasps were heard in the crowd. She wasn't shocked.
The footage was from inside her parents' suite, the one place that never had any cameras since the pack began. The only place in the entire pack that had no tech linked to it except for the door. The alpha suite was the safest place followed by Hawi's suite.
The only difference was that the alpha wanted his privacy while Hawi controlled everything that happened in her suite, hence the cameras that only she and Elodie knew how to access.
"As you have seen, the alpha clearly killed her mother and tried to change the narrative. She is guilty of murdering her mother and there was nothing like blunt force trauma. She did it, as evidenced there.
"For that very reason, the alpha is found guilty of killing her mother and so her banishment stands. Alpha Jeremiah is to lead the pack as he always did and there should be no more dragging in this trial.
"Awuor Hawi has twenty-four hours to vacate the premise that the Sicario military will drag her out. That is the verdict of the elders as read by me, Asmodeus," the old man said as he looked at Rukiya Greyson, his eyes sinister.
However, this time, Rukiya didn't say much. Instead, she stood and stepped forward so she was in front of the huge screen that the Sicario wolves had set to present their evidence against Hawi.
Ruru was disappointed if she was being honest. She had expected that with all the resources at their disposal, Sicario would strive to make everything just. She wasn't thinking that just as Hawi's mate but as an alpha.
"We accept your judgment, and will not appeal anymore, Asmodeus," Rukiya began, surprising even the Savasci knights. Rukiya Greyson will never have let Hawi take the fall for something like that but then what was the point?
Malika stared at Rukiya Greyson wondering what the woman was planning this time. If Rukiya wasn't going to give Hawi the Sicario that she had promised, then Malika was more than raised to initiate a coup and take over the pack with or without the approval of anyone.
She was a dangerous protector and she could easily lay claim on Sicario and no one would say shit. No one had ever fought there and lived to tell the story of how it all went with them. It was like she was invincible on her own.
Malika was watching and waiting and for the sake of everyone, she hoped that Rukiya had other plans because otherwise, Sicario would enter a dictatorship and nothing would ever be the same for them anymore.
"As you can see on this screen," Rukiya began as she pointed toward the big screen where there were some documents. They were not what she had said earlier about Her and his family, no.
This was something else, something that could turn Sicario upside down but then they had pushed Ruru's hand. They had forced her to act, because they produced fake evidence of Hawi killing her mother.
"There was magic in the papers, a reminder that the contact was sacred and had to be honored as Jer had failed. It was not what the Sicario wolves had expected but then it was the truth that they had to face at the moment.
Hudhayfah was enjoying this suddenly, because he zoomed in even more, as if to show even the people at the back. But when the werewolf sight that the wolves were born with was enough for them to see what was being talked about.
The statement was true.
It was there for everyone to see.
There was nothing they could do.
And as Jer looked at Rukiya, he knew he had fucked up.
"Anyway, forty-two months have passed, that is three and a half years since Jeremiah Warner never honored the agreement, it is safe to say Sicario is mine. And with that, all of you, are Greyson subjects.
"Therefore, as your alpha, my first order of the day is to appoint someone who knows Sicario best and understands what the people of Sicario need, and someone that I trust with my life and more.
"My beautiful mate. The love of my life, and the one person I could shamelessly send you all to hell for. My Awuor Hawi Sicario. Honor your new alpha, Sicario," Rukiya ordered and the Sicario wolves just stood and bowed their heads for Hawi.
Even Jer and the elders followed suit as they tried to understand what the fuck had just happened. They wanted to call the bluff, but then the magic was there and it was real. They had just been played at their own game.
Hawi was shocked at the power play she had just witnessed, as she wasn't sure if this was just some dream or a hallucination. She had never imagined that he would ever come home like this, it just was never possible.
And yet Rukiya had made the impossible happen for her.
Malika who was watching with Mbali and Elodie was just like the Sicario wolves. Everyone had their jaws on the floor as they didn't even know how to answer this. But then they all couldn't deny the fact that was staring at them.
Rukiya Greyson was a force to be reckoned with.
Rukiya Greyson was a menace.
But she was a menace madly in love with Hawi.