The Rejected Alpha's Vengeance

[GREYSON - HUDHAYFAH]

"Is that supposed to appeal to my motherhood? You and I both know that she is one-half of the white wolf. If that bitch is allowed to grow up, then she will eliminate my kind who practice dark magic.

It may be new to you, but the Russels don't appreciate any threat to their lives. So, tell me husband, what should I do with you now that you are a nosy one?" Razia asked as she cast a spell on her husband, one that changed the Alpha's scent from the usual Woody scent, to a stinking rogue scent, making Alpha Draffin an instant rogue.

"What the fuck did you just do?" Alpha Draffin asked as he looked disbelievingly at the woman he had been mated and married to for so many years. There was no way his Razia was this cruel, at least not to him who was trying to protect the fruit of their love.

It all just didn't make any sense to him.

However, he should have known already that Razia Russel was always going to do whatever benefited the shadow warlocks and she couldn't have her dear mate and daughter fucking that up for her.

She had worked so hard to make sure they were protected but perhaps this time, she had to make the difficult decisions, right?

"Come on Draffin. We both know that the only way you can defeat me is to be stronger, but you never were stronger. The moment the kid was born with that tattoo, we both knew that murdering you and her was inevitable, right?

"Maybe you should have let me kill our daughter at a young age, because then it could have been explained as an infant death and not whatever the hell this has grown into. If you ask me, you pushed my hand, my dear mate.

"You knew what the stakes were and even then you paid no heed to it. You insisted on protecting that abomination and never once let it go. This, my dear husband, is what many call karma.

"But then no one will know because as it is, Rogues are attacking Greyson and they are ruining it because of your apparent leadership. I bet it will be fun explaining to sweet Rukiya that her father was the leader of the rogues this entire time," Razia said coldly.

She hated that she had to do it like this and she hated that she had to watch the shock in the man she loved. She wanted to pretend that this didn't happen. She wanted to pretend that her husband didn't know she was a shadow warlock, but she couldn't.

Razia had to do this, for herself, for her brothers and for their legacy as the shadow warlocks. They were the balance the realm needed and not the shit show that the realm had been introduced to in the name of the white wolf.

She was never going to let that happen, and with her husband being rogue, she would ruin her daughter's soul and make her leave the power quest and just be another wolf in the pack, yeah?

"You can't do that to our child, Razia. You know how this will destroy her. If you just, then make up anything, just pull the rogues from Greyson. Make it seem like the rogues are looking for me and they changed their mind. Please.

"Don't ruin the Greyson our daughter loves. If your mission is to break her heart, then ruin me for her. Ruin my reputation, but don't break her soul like that.

There are different ways to break her soul, just don't use Greyson as a weapon against our child, Razia, please," Alpha Draffin said and his mate towered over him, with an unpleasant look on her face.

She wasn't sure if she loved that even to this point, Draffin was determined to protect their daughter, or if she hated how much they both loved Rukiya so much they wanted to do everything to keep Rukiya safe.

Razia was hurting her husband because it was the only way in her head, that she would protect her daughter from the myth of the white wolf and the deities.

It was supposed to be that simple, but then here and now, her heart was shattering on their behalf. She hadn't planned for this, but goddamn the universe was a mess that even she couldn't control. Maybe she had to do this, for their daughter, right?

"How interesting. You still worry about the child I will kill without you, huh? But since you're my mate, the one I love so much, I will grant you that one wish. Please don't hold it against me, Draffin.

"Up to the end, I hope you know I loved you and our child with everything I had and didn't have," Razia said and the alpha just smiled sadly at her.

Alpha Draffin knew her and she knew how her brain worked, which was also why her explanation didn't hurt him. If anything, it reminded him that beyond everything, there was a sign of hope for her daughter and her mother.

"Will you take care of her? Please don't leave her side when her soul is crushed. I am not asking you to help her be the alpha. I just wish that you would let her know what it means to have a mother.

"Love our daughter Razia, and you can do whatever you want with me. I will not fight you, sweetheart, not ever," Draffin said and Razia scrunched her nose at her mate. She hadn't expected that she would be this emotional over shit that didn't make sense to her.

However, then she understood Draffin best, the man was a sucker for family and it wasn't surprising that even to this point, Alpha Draffin was determined to protect his family in the only way he could.

"If that is your wish, then sure. Don't fight it. I will let them believe that you went with the rogues to fight the king. You know you must die for your daughter to live right?" Razia asked and alpha Draffin stared at his mate softy.

It was breaking his heart that things had come to this, but if this was what he had to do to save his daughter, then he would accept his fate gladly and wouldn't fight it. There was no point after all, besides, this was for Rukiya.

"If it's any consolation, Draffin, in another timeline, we would have been the happiest family. We would have had the best of the best and maybe we would have explored the dynamics of family and survived everything.

"I hope you truly understand that this has to happen like this, and I hope you forgive me, my dear mate. I love you," Razia said as she cast a spell that would make the alpha into a terrible feral rogue, one that would maul at anyone and anything.

She knew that the spell would also kill him in less than an hour, but she applauded his strength and defecation to their family. Maybe Razia was right. In another world or life, they would have been the happiest.

Perhaps this was her chance to be the mother RUkiya needed, right?

"I do understand," Draffin said.

"Then I promise I will keep our daughter safe, as long as I need to," Razia said as she watched her mate break through the windows and disappear into the woods.

"Mama?"