Mated to A Rival Alpha-Chapter 267: Betrayal Had A Familiar Face

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[RANIA]

Love wasn’t supposed to hurt like that. Love wasn’t supposed to make the skies open up and cry so loudly and shamelessly. Love wasn’t supposed to make the world so hurtful and love, wasn’t supposed to make it all so cruel

Love had brought the most unexpected of people together and made them a team. However crazy they had been, they had been friends who had become family. They had been the definition of home for each other.

However as they stood there, as they watched Han’s spell undo everything, as they stared at the bed with white sheets and their pale best friend, they all got to know just how hurtful love could be at times.

"No," was the first thing that Rania spoke of. The denial was coming at her real fast as he watched her best friend lay there. She could see the stab wounds, the poked heart, the lungs that seemed so broken.

Rania could see how broken Oshita had been and yet even as his lifeless body lay there, Ania could see a smile. She could see that her best friend had smiled even when his life was taken from him and that hurt more than life itself.

She had never imagined herself in such a situation and it was so new and so cruel. The fact that she had heard that Jungwoo was the one who did this to Oshita, made her feel like her whole life was a circus.

She had crossed the forbidden lands and done the impossible to save the man from the Drarun dungeons, and yet the same man she had saved, had killed one of the people who had saved her from herself.

Good deeds were to be balanced with good deeds, but hell be damned, Rnaia was never going to forget this. She would forever be haunted by the fact that she saved her best friend’s murderer. No amount of forgiveness could cover this anyway.

"Wake up, please," Paloma whispered defeatedly as she looked at Oshita. His long hair was covered in blood. He looked like he had been sent here so far and like the whole tie, she had been trying to hold on for them.

She had lost her best friend in the hands of Jeon Jungwoo and no matter what anyone said, Paloma was going to get her vengeance.

Kaia, who had been sitting with his brother, knew how much this was Hrithik Khan. He knew that Oshita was important to his brother and he knew that he could have done better, and maybe that was why Kaia was silently apologizing to everyone.

It was seen and crazy, but then weren’t they past the amount of craziness that Kaia would ever show them with anyway? This man was different shades of unique, but here and now, as he held his brother’s hand, Kaia was making a silent promise of retribution.

"He can’t be dead, right?" Paloma asked again, the pain so evident in her eyes as her tears fell down her face. She had been standing at a considerable distance like she was worried that Oshita was just pulling her leg.

But she wished that this was just another prank. She wished that of all the things that could possibly happen, her best friend would be trying to play dead so he could fight in the war. But she had felt the links break.

Paloma had felt the last life fade from her enforcer and she had been unable to save him. She had been so focused on the mad king and had failed to be there when her best friend needed her.

The rogue queen thought of the possible times that Jungwoo had taunted Oshita.

She thought of what Jungwoo could have done to make Oshita shift. She tried to think of the possible thing that could have irked Oshita so much that he had gotten up and was in his wolf form.

And that was something that Paloma wanted to know.

Granted, there was a possibility that she wouldn’t even know it, but damn, she had dishes, just like every person with a best friend they loved more than life. She had so many wishes.

"I... I can be here," Rania said defeatedly as she gently patted Oshita’s forehead, as if to say her silent goodbyes and make her way out.

Dalrae was quick to go after her, while the rest remained in the guest room with Paloma.

This was the kind of pain that they were going to share. It was the pain that ruined lives and the pain that made them feel so empty like they were cursed on so many levels. The pain was unbearable.

"Same-day burial," Paloma suddenly said after a few hours. She had started to wish for her best friend and even as the goth went on, and the rains increased, she knew that there were just some things that she had to do.

She had to make a difficult decision and the only thing that was holding her back was the fact that she wanted more time with her best friend.

"What?" Kaia asked as he looked at the woman.

Surely she couldn’t seriously be considering that they buried the man the same day that he had passed on, no?

Well, it seemed so because Paloma wiped her tears and forced a smile on her face like that was supposed to make the whole situation feel like home and butterflies.

This was chaos.

This was madness.

This was cruelty and more than anything, this was the worst thing that could have happened to them, ever.

"He always wanted a same-day burial in case we went to war. It was the only thing he ever asked of me," Paloma said defeatedly as she looked at Oshita.

She still couldn’t believe that this was really happening.

They were far from home. They were way too far from home and there was just no way that they would make it to Altunia in that span. It was crazy, really really crazy and it hurt.

"Damn. What will we do now? Should I portal us to Altunia?" Kaia asked, and Han was done being surprised.

His brother was surprising him each time and frankly, he started to believe that I was changing. The man he knew was always cold but the fact that Han could feel his brother’s pain at the loss of Oshita was something else.

Maybe Kaisei Chihiro Seto was finally getting in touch with his humanity.

"No. We won’t portal him to Altunia. That is too far, besides, he would want to be beside his Doronjo," Rania said and they looked at her.

Kaia didn’t know shit about Doronjo but Han and Paloma looked at Rania like she had gone bonkers.

Doronjo had been a sore topic, one that Rania had always made sure to rub in Oshita’s face.

However, over the years, Oshita finally understood what Rania had been doing, and it was then that he had made the very special request for him to be beside his mate, who had died long in the hands of the werewolf king.

"But Doronjo—"

"I buried her in the royal cemetery. I knew how important she was to Oshita and made sure to give her a befitting burial even then. My best friend will be buried in the Kim cemetery, next to my older brother."