Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“I can sense that her soul was here.” Chloe’s eyes were still closed, and I could feel that her light was spreading all over me. It almost felt like hands that were rubbing all over my body. No offense to Chloe, who was trying to help me here, but I didn’t like the way that it felt to have someone else’s hands all over me. They weren’t my Little Bunny’s hands. They were the hands of the only woman I have ever and would ever love.
“Do you know where she went?” Trevor asked her, clearly not liking what he was feeling either.
“No. I can sense her soul touched King Joaquin, but that is all I can pick up at the moment. She was here, in this room, when she was so close to him. The metaphysical traces are here but I cannot reach any further than that.”
I could tell that this was taking a lot out of her. Chloe was already looking tired and like she needed to sit down. I wondered for a moment if I should go and help her, but before I could do anything, her brother put his hand on his sister’s and helped her away from my Little Bunny.
“You have done what you can on your own, sister. I will try to reach the Luna Queen next. Please, sit down and rest.”
After that, Charlie helped Chloe over to a chair that was sitting near the bed that my Little Bunny was laying in. Chloe basically collapsed when she got there and allowed her brother to take care of her.
He was a doting brother, that was clear to see. He helped her to put her feet up and he took her cloak to drape it over her so that she was not as exposed as she had been.
“Don’t move for a few moments, sister. I need you to gather your strength while I try to reach the Luna Queen now.”
“Yes, I will. Please, Charlie, be careful. There seems to be something odd here. I don’t know what it is, but I can feel that there is someone or something strong at play here.”
That was probably my Little Bunny. She was a goddess after all. I mean, who or what was more powerful than she was? There shouldn’t have been anything in here in the castle that would overpower my wife and mate. So, whatever was going on, it had to be something that my Little Bunny had chosen to do.
The only thing that made any sense to me, was that my Little Bunny saw a problem that needed to be fixed and was working on it. I don’t know what the problem was, but I know that there had to be one. There had to be something that was keeping her away from me, away from her children.
I just wanted these twins to tell me where her soul was and why it was there. If there was anything else that I could find out about this situation, that would be good too, but I really just wanted to know that she was alright and that she was coming home, eventually.
Those were the thoughts that were going through my mind as I listened to the twins’ hushed conversation. I just wanted that from them while they were here. If I could get that, then I would be happy.. If I could be told that my Little Bunny was going to wake up eventually then I would be able to keep going.
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Joaquin
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“What kind of powerful being do you think it is, sister? What could be blocking you and keeping the Luna Queen away?” Charlie was whispering to his sister, but I could still hear him, even though I was across the room. And even though I was thinking very loudly inside my mind.
“I do not know, Charlie, I just do not know. Though I can tell you that this is a stronger entity than we have ever come in contact with. We need to be careful. Very careful.” I could see the look in Chloe’s eyes from here. She was scared, but was trying not to show it to me, the Alpha King, or to Trevor, her Alpha.
“I will be careful, sister, do not worry about that. I will make the connection to the Luna Queen and see what I can find. After that, if I cannot locate her, we will work together. You know we are stronger together.” Charlie’s voice was soft and soothing as he spoke to his sister. I could tell that he was trying to keep her calm as well as remain calm himself.
After that, Charlie rose to his feet and started to do exactly what his sister had. He removed his cloak and then his shirt and pants. Under his clothes, he was wearing a loose fitting pair of black boxers. He, like his sister, had no fastening on his shirt, pants, or shoes. I once again thought that it was because those fastenings would be too difficult for their fingers to manage with the claws at their tips.
Much like Chloe, Charlie’s fur was starting to glow. And just like his sister’s fur, it was just the tips that changed in a seemingly random array of rainbow colors. So far, there was no difference that I could see in what he and his sister were doing.
After he was ready, Charlie put his hand on my Little Bunny’s forehead, the same as Chloe had. He closed his eyes and a light started to shine from him.
Here was a difference that I noticed between Charlie and Chloe. Unlike Chloe’s muted and dark light that was not too hard on the eyes, Charlie had a very bright, very hard to look at white light. It was bright and radiated throughout the entire room.
Then, after my eyes were closed and I was covering them with my arm to help me block out the pain-inducing light even more, I was back to noticing another similarity between the twins. Just as Chloe’s light had done, Charlie’s light felt like it was touching me all over.
That was such an unpleasant feeling. This was a man, a guy that I had never met before today, and his magical light fingers were copping a feel all over my body. It felt so creepy and nasty that I understood right then and there why women hated being groped out of the blue or by people that they didn’t know and trust. Basically, by anyone that wasn’t their significant other. It just made them feel wrong and dirty. At least, that was what it was making me feel like.
I also vowed to myself right then and there that neither Trevor nor myself would ever mention this outside of this room. And to make it more official I decided to tell him that right now.
‘Never, and I do mean never, ever tell anyone about this. No one is to know that we felt what this light is doing to us.’
‘Agreed.’ I had told him through the mental connection we had gotten from my Little Bunny and he answered in the same way. The problem was, using that ability made me think about my wife that much more and it only broke me even more.
Finally, the light started to subside. Those nasty, disgusting, invisibly groping hands started to recede, and I was finally able to open my eyes and hold my head up once more. And I hoped that I would never have to experience that ever again.
“What did you see? Was there anything that you were able to tell that your sister was not?” I kind of jumped on the topic the moment that Charlie’s light had fully disappeared. Maybe I should have given him a little bit more time. Though, unlike Chloe, Charlie didn’t look quite as exhausted.
“My sister was correct. She is not here. There are traces of her soul throughout this room and other parts of this tower. I was able to reach farther than my sister was alone, and I can see where the soul of the Luna Queen was. And I even sensed the souls of three little children. They are following the Luna Queen, almost as if she is traveling with them and they are helping each other. I sense that she has a very protecting nature with them.” He could see all of that, but he couldn’t see my Little Bunny. Why? Where was she?
“Of course she would feel protective of them. They’re her children. She is pregnant and those are our children.” I was speaking with so much force that I think I frightened the two bears.
“Yes, I gathered that much.” Charlie looked around the room like he was slightly uncomfortable. I think he knew what Trevor and I had felt during that little excursion of his and he was embarrassed by it.
“Charlie, I have a question.” Trevor spoke up to ask Charlie something. I hadn’t been expecting him to ask anything, so it caught me as well as the other man by surprise.
“Yes, Alpha Trevor? How might I be of assistance to you?” At least the man knew how to be respectful of an Alpha, even though he had been isolated for almost his entire life.
“I heard you tell Chloe earlier that you are stronger together. That after you searched for the Luna Queen alone, you would search for her together. Why wouldn’t you just combine your strengths from the beginning and search for her together from the very beginning?”
Now that he mentions that, I had wondered the same thing when I heard them say that. Why would they drag something like this out if they didn’t have to?
“There is a very good explanation for that, Alpha Trevor. Chloe and I have reached many souls in our lives, we have tried to jump in with our powers combined before, but it didn’t work.”
