Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“No, I will not die.”
I watched as relief visibly spread across Vincent’s face. I know that he had been worried about that. He had probably been worried about that having happened to Nehalennia, Thoth, and Danu as well. He was just a caring person. He always has been.
“If it is safe for you, then I will agree to it. I do not mind joining Riviana in the ranks of celestials. This will only help me to serve her better.”
Vincent grinned then bowed his head to me like he was intent on telling me that he was forever at my side. He truly was one of the most remarkable men that I had ever met.
“And you, Gabriel? Will you accept Veritas’s blessing?” I asked him, turning my attention to him now.
“I believe so. I have heard your explanation to Vincent and so I do not require the same. I would have held my reservations if I were to be snuffing out a life by doing this, but if I am only going to be taking the title and status so that they may reincarnate, then I do not mind ascending. I too, wish to join my Queen among the ranks of the celestials.”
Gabriel, loyal as always, immediately agreed to accept the blessing from the Goddess into himself. I was a little nervous, but also excited. These two men, these two friends, no family members of mine, were going to ascend and become Gods just like I had become a Goddess. I wasn’t going to be the only one.
Uh oh. I just had a thought. What will Joaquin say? He will wonder why he wasn’t the first one to get a God after me. Oh, well, he will have to deal with it. These two were chosen, it’s not like I made this happen. I just helped them.
“Alright gentlemen, since you accept these beings into you, all you must do to take their blessing is to hug them. Hold them against you and absorb their light into you.” I was speaking like I was some sort of an expert. Dammit. People are going to think that I was some pompous know it all.
“OK.”
“Understood.” Thankfully, Vincent and Gabriel didn’t think along those lines. They just nodded and the two of them started to move toward the being that they were going to be accepting power from.
I watched as Vincent reached toward Sancus, he was nervous and uncertain just a little, but I had a feeling that was because he was about to hug a strange man that he just met today. That wasn’t easy for some people unless they were very social and very open. Vincent was sweet but often a little reserved.
Gabriel on the other hand, was a pure soul that didn’t truly harbor negative thoughts about people unless they warranted them. Gabriel was going to Veritas with a smile on his face and I saw that he was not going to have an issue accepting the blessing.
“Sancus, Veritas, only when they are holding onto you can you let go of my hands. If you do so before their arms are holding you in place, you will be instantly taken back to the celestial realm and you will need to find another way back here.”
“Yes, Riviana.” Sancus sounded scared, just like Vincent had.
“Understood.” Veritas sounded pure and trusting, exactly like Gabriel.
The two men that were employed by me, reached forward and wrapped their arms around the God and Goddess. Vincent held Sancus close, and only then did the God let go of my hand. Likewise, Veritas was enveloped in Gabriel’s arms and let go of my hand at that moment to hug him back.
There was a bright, shining, white light that started to fill the room. The light was brighter than the ones that I was used to seeing and I needed to shield my eyes. The problem was, with my eyes covered I couldn’t see what was happening around me. I got a few glimpses of shadows but that was it.
After about thirty seconds, the light disappeared as suddenly as it came on. I blinked a few times and cleared my vision. When I was able to see again, I saw that Sancus and Veritas were gone, only Gabriel and Vincent stood on either side of me.
“Is that it?” Vincent asked me, confused.
I tried to find something that might be different about Vincent as I listened to him. I was guessing that he would have a mark like I do, but what and where were the questions that I needed to answer.
I was about to give up on the idea and just say that it was hidden, but then I saw the smallest little flash of color on his upper arm. When I focused on it and actually looked at it, I saw he had a laurel wreath wrapped around his left arm, around his bicep.
When I turned to look at Gabriel, I saw that he had the same mark, but it was on his right bicep. That was interesting.
“Well, you are both Gods now, how do you feel?” I asked them with a smirk on my face.
“The same.” Vincent looked worried. “Did it work?”
I didn’t answer him, I just pointed at the mark. When he saw it he grinned and looked at me with confident eyes.
“I am sure we will find out how to be Gods later. What did you need us to do, Riviana?” Good he was ready to get back to the original reason that I was calling them to talk.
“I need to delegate some work, but I need to find people we can trust to work for me. I guess now that you are gods, it will be a heck of a lot easier to do that.” I almost laughed at my own words.
“We can take care of that, Queen Riviana. Just leave it to us.” Gabriel smiled at me. “We will find you people worthy of any job.”
With that, I handed them each a file that I had prepared. It listed the jobs that I wanted to ‘hire’ people for and what they would be doing. They were to help me find people capable of filling these positions that I could also trust with intimate knowledge of the kingdom.. These two men were going to help me find the help to help me. Now isn’t that convoluted?
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Over the course of the next three weeks, I was able to work with Vincent and Gabriel to find myself half a dozen qualified and trustworthy individuals that we could delegate work to. My plan with it all was for me to give each of them work that went into a specified field. I needed someone to help with the financial side of things, not to mention the information gathering, the law, the education, interspecies relationships, and lastly monitoring of the human information network. We needed to make sure that everywhere was covered and the information was gathered and organized properly.
The six people that I was bringing on for these jobs included some people that I have already gotten close to. There was Landon’s mate Ava, as well as Nadeen and Kayda who were both council members. There was a new face among the group as well. There was a man by the name of Jason who was a bird shifter, though I don’t know which breed. And adding to the familiar faces, but much closer to my inner circle, were Rawlynne and Jackson (Rawlynne was, of course, also a council member). They were being brought on for the law and human information network sectors of my plan. They were also some of the people that I had blessed all those years ago and I already knew that I could trust them.
Apparently, both Rawlynne and Jackson were willing to give up their position in the FBI to come work directly for me. I think with the way things have changed over the years and how their families have grown, they don’t want to be away from their homes as much. That was fine with me, I was happy to take them on full time and pay them a competitive wage. Though I was also told that my competitive wage was way higher than they expected and that I needed to stop letting Joaquin’s billions influence me. I didn’t think that it was that much, but OK.
I was doing my best to let go of the reins and let other people help me with my work. That was hard though, so very hard. Even now, while the new ‘trainees’ were learning their new responsibilities and all that, I was sitting here in my office basically bouncing my head off of my desk with nothing to do.
I had prepared the files and folders filled with information that they needed to know about their jobs. I had gotten the lists of their duties and expectations ready. I had made sure that everything was going exactly how I wanted it to. The only problem now was that I couldn’t be the one to tell them what to do for me.
