Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“I..I..I don’t believe it.” He was grinning like this was the best night of his life. “T..Riviana, Garin铆on, how is this possible?”
“What happened, Athair m貌r? Is something wrong?”
“Oh, Goddess no.” He grinned at me. “Riviana, this is the most amazing night ever. How did I not catch this sooner? How did I not notice this before we left your castle? Were they inside the vehicle the whole time?”
“What? What are you saying Athair m貌r?”
I started to look around the room and figure out what was going on. That was when I noticed that Daciana, the Gypsy was looking at Athair m貌r in a way that I never noticed during the previous meetings.
This makes no sense to me. If this was what it looked like, they would have known it much sooner, wouldn’t they? Or, could it be possible that they had to be here, in the lands of Fae to feel this bond for the first time.
“Daciana, are you feeling what I think you’re feeling?”
“I..I..I think so.” She was grinning broadly.
“Athair m貌r, you’ve met Daciana before, multiple times. How is it that you didn’t mate until now?” I was so confused. “Do you think you needed the magic of this place to make it happen?”
“That is possible. There are many things that none of us know about the mate bond, and how it affects those from different groups of people.” Even though he still wore a dazed look on his face, he was speaking as if he knew exactly what he was doing and saying. I was glad that he didn’t seem to be at a complete loss.
“Well, I guess this is truly a night for celebration. Daciana Joviak, you may already know him, but this is Valerian Undine, your mate. Congratulations to the both of you.” I looked between the two of them as they walked slowly toward each other. Athair m貌r took Daciana’s small, slender hand and kissed the back of her knuckles while looking in her eyes.
“Daciana, I am sorry it took until now to feel the bond, however, I am delighted.”
“As am I, Valerian. I must say, I thought you were a very good looking man the first time that I saw you. I just never thought that this was how things would end up.”
“And you, Daciana, are an exceptionally beautiful woman. I truly do think that fate can be an interesting thing, and I am delighted to be sharing this moment with you.”
They spoke for a few moments longer, but they both knew that we had a job to get to. With another kiss to her hand, Athair m貌r let his eyes smolder as he made a promise to her.
“Let us return to our work now, Daciana. After that, we will make the best of this Yule celebration. We do have a very long future ahead of us after all.”
“Yes, that we do.”
I had to wonder, how would Aunt Glory feel about the fact that Athair m貌r had met his mate? She had been waiting for a mate for a very long time. And while Athair m貌r had never mated before today, he had been married and had a son. He had more in his life than Aunt Glory had ever had.
While part of me was overjoyed by this new mating for my family, for my great great great grandfather, I was still worried about another part of my family. I didn’t want to hurt Aunt Glory’s feelings, but I also didn’t want to tell the new couple to pretend like nothing had happened at all.
While these thoughts were playing over and over inside of my head, we prepared to leave. All of my guards, and the council were circling Joaquin, Reagan, Rika, and myself. Even Athair m貌r was acting more as a protector than a royal at this moment. I wonder if they had planned this ahead of time. Did the council know that they were acting more like they were servants of mine than my trusted advisors?
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“So, Riviana, what kind of person is the Fae Queen?” Landon asked me. “I mean, is she a mean Queen or a laid back one like you?”
“Well, I guess that would all depend on the person. She’s nice to me, definitely someone that I can be myself with. However, I did see her kill someone the first time that I met her. So, yeah, that’s not an easy question to answer.” I answered him honestly, and in a cheerful voice; however, it made a lot of people around me pale with fear.
“Haha. She sounds like quite the woman.” Trevor joked after he heard what I had to say. “I am glad that she isn’t someone weak and insecure.. That just wouldn’t make for a good Queen in my opinion.”
“She’s definitely a good Queen.” Valerian jumped in to defend his sister’s honor “I can assure, Mr. Jacoby, you and Mr. Clayton will have nothing to worry about. My sister will not disappoint.”
“I didn’t really think that she would.” Landon grimaced at the fact that he was basically reprimanded by a three thousand year old man.
It was a pretty long walk from our room to Aunt Glory’s private office, but I had been walking through my castle back home for almost a year now, so I was pretty used to it. As I was thinking about the castle, I thought about all the people that now lived there with us.
All of my guards, aside from Shawn who lived in his massive house with Dietrich, now had a residence in the castle. They still maintained their other homes as well. Dietrich did actually have a place in the High Noble tower, but they didn’t stay there often since they lived very close to the castle after all.
My whole family aside from Carter also lived in the castle. They were either in the tower with me or had their own private residence with the others. Landon had moved into his High Noble suite as well. He went back to his pack house every now and then but he spent most of his time at the castle lately anyway. Trevor had moved in as well. His pack encompasses half of the entire country. He said it didn’t matter where he lived within that territory as long as his people had access to him. Well, they did, just usually by appointment only.
Juniper and her family, and Cedar and his family; it seemed that everyone close to me was living in the castle. Good thing it was so big. And not to mention, good thing we all got along so well.
I had distracted myself with those thoughts until we were right outside of Aunt Glory’s office. There was a guard out there waiting for us, and his eyes went wide with shock then he saw the group of us approaching. There were more than twenty people who had just arrived before him, a good number of them royalty.
“I..I..I will l..l..let the Qu..Quee..Queen know that you’re here.” He bowed his head a little.
“Not such a good sign.” Trevor laughed. “Why is he so skittish?”
“Perhaps he could picture you in your bear form Winnie the Poohing it all up.”
“Oh shut up Tigger, at least I don’t-.”
“Hush.” I silenced them and they both stopped immediately. Damn, I really loved that sometimes. It was fun watching them obey me with that sort of compulsion.
