The Rejected Alpha's Vengeance

Chapter 378 For The Hearts That Bled

[JER]

"For her," Amina answered without hesitating, before she realized what she had just done. She wanted to correct herself but the sad smile on her brother's face told her that he understood her. Of course, he did.

Trey was the first one to point out the bond to Amina, when she didn't know what mating was. He had helped his sister navigate her feelings for Mbali even though it was more like a suicide mission, Trey had taught her what it meant to love and to be loved.

Granted, they were siblings, but there was none that Amina trusted with her secrets more than Trey Russel.

"I meant to–" Amina begum and trey just stopped her.

"It's alright, I understand you. If I were in your position, I would have fought for her. I know that's not exactly what you need to hear at the moment, seeing we are in the middle of a war with them;

"... but if I could see my Perihan again, if I could know whether Perihan was a girl or a man, I would go for it. I would do whatever it took to breathe in that cinnamon scent that drives me insane.

"Every dusk reminds me of my dear Perihan, even when I know I would never see him or her again. Even when my heart shatters each time dawn comes it's just me in my room, with my wishes that would never come true.

"I watch the sunset each time, hoping that when midnight strikes, I could see Perihan again, hoping to breathe him or her again, to be there just next to Perihan. Oh, the things I would give to go back to that night all those years ago.

"I would burn the world and look for Perihan if I saw him or her again. Trust me sister, I wouldn't blame you if you chose your hermosa over us. Because I would leave everything for my Perihan," Trey said earnestly and Amina listened to him.

She knew how much Trey regretted the night he met Perihan at the Halloween ball. They had been on a mission, one that was so delicate that everything needed to go according to plan.

Trey hadn't imagined he would find someone who made his heart beat that night, so when someone bumped into him that night, the only word out of his mouth was Perihan, their code word for when the mission was going okay.

Trey had shrieked at the contact, given the sparks that he felt when that person bumped into him, dressed like an angel.

It was the first time that Trey had tagged along on the mission and it was the last time he went because he had lost the only angel that made him want to be alive again.

He knew he would never be able to attend the Halloween ball in that same place the next year, seeing as they were traveling across the realm most of the time, and never stayed in one place.,

Trey only ever confided in his sister, and it still hurt to this day, because he knew he would never get to see the angel again.

"I'm okay... I'll be answering your questions from right over here," Jer said as she stood a few meters away from the current track the Russel siblings were in. He looked bruised as hell and he was looking everywhere but at Amina.

"At least he learned his lesson never to think of me as a puppet," Amina shrugged again and Seb sighed. Their sister was crazy on so many levels but at least He had learned that first hand and wasn't about to make the same mistake, right?

"Gear up, we are heading west," Seb said and Jer stared at him questioning where he had gotten that suggestion. He was about to ask when he saw Amina squint her eyes at him, and frankly, death was way better than questioning Amina Russel.

"Alright, I'll get ready," Jer stated defeatedly.

"We need to be ready too," Seb added and the siblings just agreed.

Alex and Seb were the first to walk back into their trunk of a home, while Trey and Amina stayed on the rails.

They seemed to not have anything to be ready for, which may have been right because their hearts were plagued with things that they couldn't even deal with at the moment.

There was never going to be a chance for them to meet their mates like that, at least not when they were at war. Maybe there would come a time when things would be alright with them too, yeah?

"Come along, Trey. We need to get back into the game and mission. We have a family to protect. If it leads us to those who have our hearts in the palms of their hands, then well and good.

"Otherwise, we leave everything to fate. Nothing is ever going to stop us from doing this. At least we have some control over the outcomes with the Savasci knights," Amina reassured and Trey just chuckled.

His sister was trying a little too hard to make things work and honestly, he couldn't blame her. Amina knew nothing of love. Sure, they were brought up in the same room with their parents, but none of them knew what it meant to love.

So, when Razia met her mate, the Russels were sure their sister would come back, until Razia didn't, only for her to end up with the most dysfunctional family ever. That was their worst fear at the moment.

"Yeah, let's go in," Trey sighed and they went back into the truck.

"Goddamn, finally," Jer said when he made it to the truck. He could see no sign of Amina or the Russel siblings and that was way better for him; he would hate to run into Amina because that woman screamed danger for him.

She probably knew more than she was getting on and Jer wasn't ready to be sacrificed again for the greater good. but was that what he was doing here? Wasn't it because the Russels valued Atticus's magic in him that they put him here with them?

"I just have to kill that Sicario bitch and all of this will be over," Jer said to himself as he walked inside the truck that had the Russel siblings.

As much as he wanted to say that he didn't need to be here he had to be. He had to find a way around this and there was no simpler way out than with the damned siblings.