Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
After the fight was over, we went back to Bryce’s pack house. Riviana had shifted into her wolf and was unconscious.
I was nervous and scared that Bryce’s daughter would be back at any time now. But I managed to see Riviana the next morning and rush out of there, heading home, before she could see me and know that I had been part of an enemy pack spying on their family when I scented her. When I got the chance, I would come back and finish this mating for real.
Until then, I just had to calm my wailing wolf.
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Emmalee
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I didn’t know why, but Dad had told us to leave. Not all of us really, just mom, Katie, and me.
Apparently there were some major things going on with another pack and they were on their way to our land. I guess Dad thought it would get dangerous and wanted to keep us away until things were safer or until they were all gone.
So, until we were allowed back, we were staying with my aunt and uncle a couple hours away. We were out of our territory and safe from anything that should be affecting them. Mom didn’t like this, I could tell, but she left anyway and took me and my sister with her.
I didn’t care where I was, I was just glad I could skip class for a couple days and try to forget about my problems.
Typically I am a very sociable person and I love being in a crowd, but right now, with how depressed I had been feeling, I wasn’t up to it, I hadn’t been for a while now actually.
During the two days we were away I spent as much time as I could just exploring the woods near their house. I may be a total girly girl, but I am also a wolf and I love being in among the trees. I often hiked in them when I needed to think or to be alone.
These trees looked similar to the ones back by our house, and after a while they stopped giving me solace. Instead they made me think about running blindly into the forest, trying in vain to track a scent that was already vanishing.
I had woken from a nightmare of just that more times than I could count since I realized that my mate had run off. I would dream that I was walking into the woods, alone. I would be on a peaceful hike, something to bring me joy. Just after entering the trees, though, I would smell the man that had just been there moments before.
His scent would intoxicate me, make me smile and fantasize all at the same time. I would follow my nose, trying to track it, and just as I got a good trail going his scent would disappear.
Frustrated, I would start again. Finding a new path with a strong trail. But just as I was getting close the scent would dissipate again.
That would happen over and over until I just ran around the forest screaming for him to come to me, begging him to not reject me. Most nights I woke up screaming or with tears streaming down my face.
I wished I wasn’t so affected by all of this.
I had been happy to visit my family at first, but the dreams were worse there for some reason. All I wanted to do was to go home, so when Dad called and said everything was settled and we could come home I was the first one in the car.
The first thing I noticed when I got home and exited the car in the middle of the driveway out front was that sweet, dessert scent again. At first I thought my dreams, my nightmares, had started to come to me when I was awake. I thought that I was just finally going crazy.
When I smelled the scent inside the house. When I smelled it go all the way down the hallway to my dad’s office where it pooled thickly with a dizzying, glee inducing intensity, then I knew that he had been here.
“Dad, where is he?” I ran to him, asking my question breathlessly.
“Who?” He seemed confused.
“My mate. I can smell his scent.”
“Sweetheart, he was not here. The only people who were here were the family and guards of the Alpha and Luna from another pack.”
“Then one of them was my mate.”
“I doubt that sweety. None of them have ever been here before.”
“But I smell him Daddy.”
“I think you’re just tired, baby girl. Why don’t you get some sleep.” My dad kissed me on the top of my head then and sent me away like I was a child. Did he not understand anything? Why did he have to treat this so lightly? I would show him, I would prove to him that he was here.
As I was walking back to my room I noticed traces of his scent again. It was scattered in different places. How could it be in so many places if he wasn’t here?
One of the guest rooms had a particularly strong trace of his scent, but the room had already been cleaned and the traces were fading.
Next, I was walking down the hall and I noticed another pooling of the scent. There were people in the room down here, but his scent was all over the place down here. I needed to know what was going on.
I went and talked to my mom this time, asking her who was still in our house. It seemed the other pack’s Alpha and Luna were here because the latter had been injured after she was kidnapped. The kidnappers had made it as far as our pack and were hiding out. They had been in our territory when she was rescued. And the Luna was a woman who was just about my age. I was envious of her having found her mate.
I wanted to go introduce myself, possibly ask who had been in the room with her before.
“Hi, Riviana, can I come in?” I knocked on the door and waited.
“Yes, come in.” A female voice answered sweetly, but I heard a male growl unhappily.
When I went inside I saw a very pretty young woman with dark, dark wavy brown hair and beautiful blue eyes. She was smaller than me by a few inches and really pretty. She looked sweet and very friendly, and I instantly wanted to be her friend.
“Hi, I’m so happy to meet you.” I smiled at her as sweetly as I could.
