The Rejected Alpha's Vengeance

Chapter 416 A Whole New World

[HAWI]

"Get up, we're leaving," Hwi said as she looked at the stairsteps behind them.

It wasn't a decision she had come to light but then she had to let them know. This was the only chance they had to make things right because, at the end of the day, it would boil down to them still.

"Great," Malika said as she excitedly walked down the steps and Hawi let out a soft laugh.

"You're going in the wrong direction, Miss Protector," Hawi said and Malika froze.

"What do you mean?" Ruru asked.

"We're climbing the stairs. We're all qualified to brave whatever comes our way. Now come along, we do this all day. Seven thousand steps, we can do that in a week, but we didn't have a week.

"We have to clear the in thirty-six hours," Hawi said and Malika could have sworn she had heard the woman wrong.

Thirty-six hours, to defeat the chaos that had their way in the name of bringing at the damn temple? She and Ben are ready to go up there but in three days and not damning thirty-six hours. Hell, that wasn't even two days.

"I'm sorry, what?" Malika asked as she steered at Hawi and then at the longest stairs of her life. That was impossible. Hell, the seventy-two hours that Malika had been ready for wasn't even enough. And now they were talking about thirty-six hours?

"Last I checked, two days is equivalent to forty-eight hours?" Ruru asked as if that was supposed to make her mate change her mind, this was insanity at best, there was no other way to describe what the fuck was going on inside Hawi's head.

This woman had to be nuts, and that too on a level higher than what they had thought possible. Surely there was something wrong with her?

"Keep walking, sweetheart. We have a long way to go. I'll answer every question you have as we talk, ahead and not backward. We have thirty-six hours. If we did make it there in that time, then we are not ready for whatever hell is waiting for us with the crazed Russels," Hawi said.

She didn't need a little more time. She needed to finish the missions and get this over with. She needed to be the hope of the realm and if she wasn't careful, she would lose more than she had bargained for.

That's what she needed and nothing more.

"You don't have a lot of time though,," Luna Eniola said to her daughter who was fatigued and losing herself.

"Because I see you?" Hawi asked, even though she knew the answer. She was hallucinating. She was losing her mind and there was no one to tell her that. She knew it herself and it haunted her. Maybe she shouldn't have come along.

"I shouldn't be here and yet I am, baby," Luna Eniola said, making Hawi sigh defeatedly. She had tried to voice a lot of things but in the end, she lost. She was bound to lose no matter what happened, so why would she fight, right?

"You don't know that. You're my mother, of course, I'm always going to need you. I'm always going to miss you no matter what," Hawi defended as she watched Malika and Ruru's figures disappear the higher they went.

The reality was too cruel, and Hawi was never going to be ready to face that. Perhaps that made her even more of a coward than she had ever thought possible, but what else could she do? Your journey continues on empire

She had to be the person the goddess and Olyana wanted her to be. She had to be whatever they needed, even when she was hurting and when her heart was breaking tenfold.

"I know, baby, I know. But we both know that the longer I am here, the longer you see me, the worse you get. You need to tell them the truth, Awuor. you need to come clean to them no matter what happens.

"They will understand and they won't judge you," Luna Eniola said and Hawi looked at her mother sadly.

They were walking up the steps but at an agonizingly slow pace. It was almost like Hawi wasn't even sure if the steps were going to be worth it.

She had wanted to walk down the steps and go back to Sicario, but when she saw her mother, and changed her mind. Perhaps she was insane for deciding on a crucible thing because of a hallucination.

But that hallucination was her mother.

"No, mother, I can't tell them," Hawi said right as she heard Ruru calling out to her.