Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
Several voices rang out in several voices, but all the words sounded the same to me.
“Yes.”
“Holy shit, Riviana you did it.” Paul looked excited.
From there we were able to watch as the new recruits were told what drills to do and where to do. It was definitely going to make things easier on Paul and the others now. And this new blessing would help us as well since even though we spoke multiple languages, there were still some that we didn’t know. This would be a great benefit for those in our higher circle.
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Riviana
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This new way of life for us had been in effect for a little while now. It was now the middle of April and time for the first ever quarterly meeting with the High Nobles and the Grand Nobles. There were going to be a lot of people here, but definitely nowhere near as many as there could have been.
The nobles were arriving slowly over a few days. Star and Artem were the first to arrive, and we spent some time hanging out with them. When they came for their Nobility assignment, we had actually had dinner with them, got to meet their two babies and see all thirteen of their adopted boys who had gotten so much bigger and stronger since the talismans they had been wearing were removed..
The last time that they had been here, Reagan and Rika had enjoyed playing with their little boy, and I was glad that they got the chance to play with him again. And their youngest son was now four months old and curious about everything. Sometimes I still couldn’t believe it. They had fifteen sons between the two they had together and the thirteen they adopted. I even remembered when Joaquin had Noah call and gently threaten the judge in their adoption case to force him to approve the adoptions. That hadn’t actually been nice to the judge, but it was nice for Star and Artem.
I quite enjoyed the quick reunion we had with our friends and family from back in California. They were family because Star was actually my cousin thanks to my heritage linking me to Athair m貌r. His brother Sorrel was the starting point for Star’s Fae bloodline. So yeah, we were family.
After the visit with them was over, it was time to get to work. Once all the nobles had arrived, I had them assemble in the throne room the next day. Joaquin and I took our places before them while they all sat in the chairs on either side of the main aisle.
“Welcome, all of you. Thank you for returning to Castle Gray.” Gabriel greeted them for us. “You are all here for the first of the quarterly meetings that you are required to attend. Since this is a new process for us all, I am certain that it will take you all some time to get into the flow of things. However, over time we do believe that things will go a little more smoothly for us all.”
Silence greeted him when he finished his welcome. Everyone had bowed to me already, and so they were sitting patiently waiting for the meeting to begin.
“Again, thank you for making this trip here. This will soon become a regular and normal thing for you so it will not be as chaotic as it was this time. Now, I want to open the floor to all of you. If there were any major conflicts among the territories that you oversee, I want to know about them now.”
There were a few people that raised their hands to tell me of the disputes that happened among the different packs, clans, and covens. It seemed that the most notable disputes were between two of the merfolk clans and several of the wolf pack and feline packs. That was not what I was expecting. It seems that this time around there were no issues with the magic users. Or at least none that they told me about.
I could get used to just minor issues like this. I didn’t want to see my people fighting amongst themselves too often. I knew that total peace wasn’t possible, just like Athair m貌r had said before. However, a degree of calmness among the people was something that would be nice.
I worked my way through the disputes that existed among the groups. We tried to find solutions that were suitable for the parties, and the High Nobles were supposed to go back and delegate the issue for the others. They would tell them of my input, and if that was something they could agree on, they could move on peacefully. If they refused, they would be summoned to the castle for me to handle the issue personally.
This meeting was taking a little longer than I expected with how detailed everyone was being. However, I was glad that they were thoroughly detailed. It would be for the best in the long run. The more details I had the more efficiently I could make my decisions.
After the main meeting was over, we retired to our quarters for the night. The different groups would meet in their own meeting halls tomorrow to discuss any issues that they wanted to bring up to me. If there was nothing, they could go back to their rooms until the next group meeting. The Grand Nobles had watched over the group meeting and would watch again at the next one as well. We were going to meet while the others had their small meeting to see if there were any problems they wanted to address. There would be another meeting between them and myself if they thought it was necessary after the second group meeting. If not, then everyone would be dismissed and free to go home.
Thankfully, everything had actually been relatively good over the last few months. I do believe that they were all just trying to get used to the new way of life, and most groups were still scared shitless with having been summoned for the meetings back in January. Still, that peace made it so that the quarterly meetings ended after the third day, and we were able to adjourn until the next meeting.
Still, despite all of this going so smoothly, I couldn’t stop myself from worrying about the warning from Danu and the impending threat to Aunt Glory and Athair m貌r. It would be so much easier if we knew when the impending battle was coming. But no, we were left relatively clueless about the entire situation.
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Riviana
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Several months have now passed since I was summoned by Danu. We had celebrated Joaquin’s birthday at the beginning of last month and then the second quarterly meeting just a week or so after. It’s kind of a shocker right now, really. Joaquin is twenty-eight, and I am twenty-one. Where did all the time go?
Before I know it the twins will be two years old. We have just over three months until their birthdays will be here again. I had a feeling that Joaquin was already planning what to get the two of them. He was always so excitable when it came to Reagan and Rika.
Some things that had happened lately, the positive and good things, were that the daycare was fully operational and running smoothly. The schools that we opened in the new city were fully functional as well with lots of students enrolled, all supernaturals, and the teachers were all supernaturals as well.. Oh, and one more good thing that we had? was a bus system for the school, with some buses dedicated to the daycare. If there were kids whose parents were at work when school let out, they would be taken to the daycare by the buses. Oh, and did I mention that the daycare was entirely free for them to use? We used the funds that the pack paid in ‘taxes’ to the alpha since we didn’t need that money for ourselves.
The school was running above state standards and was classified as a public school, but did not allow the ‘school of choice’ option that a lot of others did. That meant that, as bad as it sounds, we wouldn’t get humans in the school. I was hoping to change this in the future, but we needed to have the next generation of our people educated about their histories and not just what the humans taught.
In this school, we taught the histories of the Fae wars, the Vampire wars, the Shifter wars, and the true story behind the Witch Trials. These were things that the kids would never learn from the public school system anywhere else. And these were things that those who were going to help lead my people in the future needed to know.
We also had teachers from these specific species that worked together to teach those history classes. And believe it or not, we were working on building our own university. This would be a way for those that live all around the world to attend a college that was for shifters only.
It was a type of segregation, which was bad, but it was needed at the moment. We needed our children to learn specific subjects, and if a human were to attend and take a class on the intricate histories of the Fae or Shifter Origins or something like that, it would be a little hard to explain to them what it was truly all about. Maybe one day in the future we can reveal ourselves to the humans and remove all the barriers. However, now wasn’t the time for that.
Right now, instead of thinking about how to live harmoniously with the humans, I was worried about Aunt Glory and Athair m貌r. I didn’t know what was going to happen, or when it was going to happen, but I knew that something was coming.
We hadn’t been back to the Fae compound since the Yule celebration. We were going back for Yule again this year though. I know that it was a little unfair to the people here since we had gone last year to the Yule celebration, but I just had a feeling that we needed to go this time. Call it the Goddess Incarnate Intuition or whatever you wanted to name it, but I just felt like I needed to be there during the Yule festivities this year.
The rest of the family wasn’t going this time. This year it was going to be me, Joaquin, Reagan, Rika, Lila, and of course my guards, as well as some of the? knights and some council members.? I was definitely going to take Gabriel and Roisin with us too.
The plans were already being put into motion for this all to happen. The council members that were going to be there with us were Trevor, Landon, Nathair, Kayda, Rahim, and Daciana. Dietrich was staying behind this time even though Shawn was going with us. And of course, there were two council members that were already at the Fae compound, Athair m貌r and Anastasia Lightly.
Still, part of me didn’t think that it was enough. If the fight broke out while we were there I didn’t know if we would have enough people there to back us up. I didn’t bring these worries up to Joaquin though; I didn’t want him to think that I was being paranoid or something like that.
It was a really stressful time just waiting for it all to fall into place. I didn’t even have classes to distract me anymore either. I had graduated and had even taken the MBE or the Multistate Bar Examination. I was officially a lawyer now as well as a Queen, a Goddess Incarnate, and a Mayor. Oh, and when I told Joaquin I had specialized in business law so that I could be of use to him, he was actually surprised. Dare I say that he nearly cried because I had done something that specifically tied my chosen career with his business empire. I was even given an official position in the company, not that it required me to go to work everyday; but I was officially listed as the legal counsel for Alpha Corp. Oh well, what was one more title to my ever growing list?
