Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
After a moment, the twins looked at each other with bewildered expressions then they started to smile. They could tell that to Talia, they were just normal people. She didn’t see anything but who they were, not what they looked like.
“My name is Chloe.” Surprisingly, she was the one to speak first. She was usually the more shy of the two.
“And my name is Charlie. It is nice to meet you, Talia. And you know something, we don’t just hear the whispering people. We see them too.” He was leaning down toward my little girl and showing her his furry face.
“Yes, my daddy told me that. I think that is amazing.” Talia beamed at them, literally she was shining like a beacon.
“Talia, are you not afraid of us?” Chloe asked her worriedly, still wondering what the little girl thought of her and her brother.
“Why would I be?” Talia tilted her head in confusion.
“Well, Talia, we don’t look like other people.” Charlie informed her. “Most people think we are ugly or scary. They are afraid of us.”
“Well, those people are stupid.” She clapped her hands over her mouth and turned to look at me. “I am sorry for using the bad word, Daddy.”
“It’s OK, sweetheart.” I nodded at her.
“Well, as I was saying, those people are not smart if they think that about you. I think you’re beautiful. I think that you are two of the prettiest people in the whole wide world.”
I could see the happiness spreading in their faces. They were definitely enjoying their visit with Talia.
The three of them talked for a long time. They shared what they knew about the whispering people, though not the scary parts. They told Talia that they could teach her how to block out the voices if she wanted to. It was a good night.
“Thank you, both of you.” I shook their hands and let them know how much I appreciated what they had done.
“Can I see you again?” Talia asked them.
“Of course, that would be fun.”
“We would love that.” Charlie and Chloe answered with those respective responses. They seemed to have changed their minds completely.
“Can I have a hug?” Talia smiled at them.
“Of course.” Charlie leaned down first, but Chloe followed him and together, they hugged my little girl. It was a group hug and I thought it was sweet.
That is, until the light started to shine around them. They didn’t seem to notice it, but Gabriel and I did. It was a light that reminded me of the past, of a light that Riviana used to have. Only instead of white, this light was pink.
The light enveloped all three of them while they hugged. It didn’t last long, but it was there. And when Charlie and Chloe pulled away from my little Talia, I saw what the light had done.
“Hey, where did your fur go?” Talia asked them, not understanding what she had done.
“Talia, sweetheart, why don’t you go back to your room. I need to talk to Charlie and Chloe.”
Once she was gone and it was just the three of us, I had to explain to the twins that my daughter, the wolf, Fae, and witch super child, had blessed them with a full human form. It took them a long time to process this information, and I had to repeat it all over and over again. Though, in the end, when they accepted it all, they were beyond happy to hear the news.
And I now had to come to terms with the fact that my daughter was truly a powerful little girl.
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Riviana
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I watched in suspenseful dread as the man came toward us. I don’t think that Rudy noticed him just yet. Well, that said a lot about Rudy’s attention to detail and his awareness of surroundings. If I was going to make it through here alive, intact at least, then I was going to need to be the one to protect us. Rudy, as big and strong as he appeared to be, could not be counted on to do that.
“Rudy?” I whispered his name and as the warrior quickly walked over to us. “We have a problem.”
“Huh?” He jolted to a stop and turned to look at me, then at the man that I was watching with worried eyes. “W..why is he coming over here?”
“Great. I was hoping you could tell me that. I mean, I am the one that is not from the underworld, whereas you are from here.” I was speaking sarcastically and with a little more anger and force than I intended to at the moment. I shouldn’t be treating him like that, but I truly couldn’t help it at the moment.
“Well, it is unusual for any of us to leave our posts. I..I shouldn’t have left, and he doesn’t look like a way between.”
“A what?” I shouldn’t be asking when we clearly didn’t have the time to talk, but I had been surprised by his words.
“The guards that take souls to their punishments. They are called ‘way betweens’. They show the soul the way between the gate and the punishment.”
“Well, I guess that was actually pretty self explanatory.” I chuckled to myself and what I should have been able to figure out for myself.
“We do not have much time before he reaches us.” Rudy was still walking forward at a nonthreatening, non hurried pace. “I do not want to present the appearance that we are nervous or that we know that we are in a place that we should not be. I would like to show that guard that we are not in the wrong here. I am just escorting you.”
“I agree. If we run, he will give chase and that would probably not end well for us.” I responded without taking my eyes off of the other man.
The man, like Rudy had said, reached our path in almost no time at all. He was standing there, blocking us from moving on. That was when I noticed that this had to be a giant. I was used to tall people, those that were close to seven feet tall, but this man had to be closer to eight. And not only that, but he was broad-shouldered and powerful looking. I bet he literally had the strength to take someone’s head off with a single punch. That was how powerful he looked.
