Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
We split into several groups after that, going from floor to floor and room to room waking up everyone in the abbey and then the village. Gabriel was just as shocked as we were when he had heard the news and started preparing to leave at once.
It wasn’t even half an hour after Little Bunny had woken from her nightmare prophecy dream and we were all ready to go. I had called home to let Noah know what was going on. Those who had already planned to come back with us were going to be flying back on my plane, while the others would be taking seats on another flight departing later in the day.
I hoped that we would be there and ready for Edmond long before he showed his sorry ass to anyone in my city. But for now it was nothing more than a tense waiting game. We all piled into cars and SUVs to head to home.
If I ever thought we had a long caravan before, it was nothing compared to this one. This train of vehicles stretched at least fifty long. And we all sped together through the dark, quiet, pre dawn streets and roads. Not one vehicle in our party adhered to the speed limit as we hurried on our way.
Several laws were broken but we made it to the airport in less than an hour, effectively cutting the drive time in half. Together we marched into the airport. A horde of nearly two-hundred people really makes an impression on people when they all show up at once.
The big execs at the airport weren’t very happy when I announced what it was I needed. They tried to complain about me in French while stalling, but my adorable little wife and I put them in their place when we countered them right back in French as well.
Little Bunny had been right. With enough money changing hands we had the clearance to take off within minutes. And with another copious sum of money, I paid for a flight to be cancelled and redirected to Colorado. The rest of the Sentinelle would be flying back on that flight, all except for the non fighters who would be staying behind to care for the abbey.
We were on the plane and preparing to take off within half an hour of showing up at the airport. Riviana got exactly what she wanted, less than two hours for the take off. It was three AM here and with the flight time and time change we would be arriving home around ten in the morning. That felt so weird to think about, it would be five in the evening here when we landed in Colorado. I hate time changes.
Once we were settled on the plane I turned to my Little Bunny and gave her a serious look. I needed to know what she had seen that had scared her so much. She was looking out the window, her forehead resting on the seat and she was clearly exhausted.
“Riviana.” I called her name softly but she jumped, startled by the sound coming from so close to her.
“Yes.” She turned to look at me, her eyes were red like she had been crying but her face was dry. She was tired and upset and I didn’t yet know why.
“What did you see?” She just shook her head and started to look away from me, but I put a hand on her chin forcing her to look back at me. “Sweetheart, tell me, please. Don’t you know a burden shared is a burden lessened? Tell me and let me help you.” I pleaded with her.
I saw my wife take a deep shuddering breath, her eyes closed and her brows creased. She released that breath on another shudder before taking another, more steady breath. Finally, she opened her eyes and looked at me.
“I was given a message about Edmond. He’s going back to where all his troubles began.”
“Troubles? He has troubles?”
“Me.” The one word said it all. She was the wrench that was thrown into his plans, she was the one standing in his way. He wanted to stop her, and he knew how to do it.
“We will stop him.” I hugged her tight to my side. “The gods warned you for a reason.”
“It wasn’t the gods.” Her voice was so even and flat that I knew it wasn’t a joke, but I didn’t understand at first.
“If it wasn’t the gods, then who?”
“Edmond’s children.” I was confused, and didn’t follow that for a moment. With an eyebrow quirked I asked her the only thing that came to my mind.
“What children?”
“All the ones he experimented with before. The others that were just like me.”
“And you’re sure it wasn’t a trick from him?” I was worried for a moment after hearing these words.
“No, I know what I felt, and I know it was real. The gods probably helped to facilitate the meeting, but it was my dead brothers and sisters that gave me the message.”
“I’m sorry you had to see that.” I chaffed my hand up and down her arm for comfort more than warmth.
“There were so many of them, Joaquin. He killed so many of his own children. Hundreds of them. It was horrible. He’s a monster.”
“We will stop him, honey. I promise he won’t do it again.”
“I can’t let him hurt another child Joaquin. Some of them were little children. I can’t bear to think about that.” She had turned her face and sobbed the last of those words into my chest as I held her.
“He won’t. He has you and me to contend with now, and he is going to regret it.”
We flew the rest of the way home holding each other close and sleeping when we could manage it. We would need our rest for the coming fight.
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Riviana
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From the time that I woke up from that warning I had constantly been alternating between a state of intense frustrated anger and pit of endless despair. I would never forgive myself if anything happened to the people of my city and my pack. I would never forgive myself if my family were to be hurt by that psychotic asshole that called himself my father. I needed to protect them, all of them.
The moment we landed in Colorado it was like a well rehearsed circus event. Noah and a bunch of pack warriors were there in the same SUVs we had left in. The difference this time was that we were arriving later in the morning and there were a lot more people around to see the spectacle.
It was like celebrities had arrived and were taking over the airport. That’s what it looked like with all the people scrambling to get a look at us all as we were being escorted through the crowd. Joaquin and I were buried in the middle of the crowd with the several large, very strong looking body guard types all surrounding us and very on edge.
We moved through the airport as fast as we could, piling out to the curb that was crowded with the twenty large SUVs waiting for us. Once we were all seated we pulled away immediately. We needed to get home and have a meeting with the others.
This part of the trip was quick in comparison to the rest of it. It was not a long drive from the airport to the estate and we made good time with the intimidating presence of our envoy. It might have also helped that Rawlynne and Jackson, and Andrew and Devon from the local PD, were leading us like some sort of presidential escort. Things were too pressing and too important to leave up to chance.
