Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“Yeah, I love daddy too.” Zander and Zayden came to join us at the screen, as Joaquin and Angel called it.
“Come on, Riviana, come home.” Athair m貌r walked toward the screen.
“Come on, sis, we all miss you.” Noah was there too.
“Get your butt back here, Riviana.” Trevor laughed at me.
“I am. I’m coming home.” I turned to face Rudy and Alexio. “Come on. I think we should all go at once. We will hold hands so that there is nothing that can separate us.”
“Yes, Queen Riviana.”
“That sounds like a good idea.” Rudy and Alexio hurried over and took the hands of the boys. There was an even number of us, so there was no one technically in the middle, but I was there with the boys surrounding me and the others on the ends. The screen was wide enough for all of us to walk through at once, so we didn’t have to worry about that at all.
“I’m coming home, Joaquin. And I am bringing everyone with me. Even you, Angel, come here.”
“I can come too? I can be in the same world as Talia?”
“Yes, you’re helping us, so come on.”
With that, Angel flew to land on my shoulder. It gripped me with its tiny clawed hands but it didn’t hurt me. Then, altogether, we walked through that screen and back to the land of the living.
I thought it would be like just stepping through a door. However, that was never like anything that it should be here. Instead, it was like we were walking through a really long tunnel. It was like suddenly, Joaquin and the others were very far away.
“Little Bunny? What happened? Why did you get so far away?” Joaquin called out to me, but I could barely hear his voice.
“The screen is a tunnel. We have to pass through it.” I called out to him, hoping he would hear me. I wanted to hurry. I wanted to run to him. I wanted to speed this up. However, I knew that I would get there, and soon, so this short wait didn’t matter to me at all. I was watching my Joaquin getting closer and closer to me and that was the best feeling in the world right now. “I’m almost home, Fido.” I whispered the words, but Joaquin apparently heard them.
“I am not Fido.” He laughed at me. “But get over here, Little Bunny.”
“I am.” It seemed to me that I was just a few feet away. I was almost there. I could practically reach out and touch his hand. I didn’t though, since we all needed to hold hands and I had two of the boys’ hands in mine. Still, we were that close. We were right there.
And that was when everything went dark.
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Joaquin
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This was it. My little bunny was walking toward me. She was on her way back home. She was moving through this tunnel that connects the two screens together. I didn’t know that there would be this tunnel, so that was delaying the return of my Little Bunny. But she was coming back. She had spoken to me and seen me, that was all that mattered right now. I knew that it was real. We all did. She was coming back to me. She was coming home.
I didn’t really like that she was bringing her friends with her, but I had a feeling it was going to happen. I mean, that was such a Riviana thing to do. She was a bleeding heart that just had to help them. That’s fine. They protected my boys so I would trust them, for now. If they tried anything with my wife though, they were going to die.
There she was. She was almost through the screen. I could almost touch her. Yes! Thank the Goddess she was finally going to be home. Or so I thought.
One minute I was standing there, staring at my Little Bunny, Zachary, Zander, Zayden and the two new friends. And the next thing that I knew, I was only looking at the two men that she brought along with her. Riviana was gone. And so were the boys. What had happened.
“Where is my Riviana? Where did she go? And the boys? Where are they? Where did they all go?”
“Calm down, King Joaquin.” One of the men, the younger looking one, tried to calm me down. “Queen Riviana returned with us. You know that.”
“Then where is she? Where is my wife? What happened to her?”
“She came back. Just like she was supposed to do.” The other man, the taller one, tried to explain to me but I wasn’t having any of their excuses.
“If she came back, then where is she? What did you do with her? Where is my Little Bunny?”
“Oh, shut up Fido. Your barking is getting a little annoying.”
I heard her. I could hear my Little Bunny. But I couldn’t see her. Why hadn’t she gone through the screen with them. Where did she end up? What was happening?
“Riviana? Where are you? What’s going on?” I was looking at the screen still, frantic for her to respond, but at that moment, the screen started to disappear. “No, the screen can’t disappear. My Little Bunny isn’t here yet. No!”
“I am in the room with you, dumbass. Did you think I would magically appear before you? My body was over here in the bed. What did you think was going to happen? Seriously. Now get over here and hug me, you stupid dog.”
I turned around and searched the other side of the room. I was looking into the bed and waiting to see some sort of life from my wife.
“Riviana?” I was moving as I called out for her.
“I’m here, Joaquin. I just can’t move. So come here and hug me.” I did as she asked me to. I ran to her side and threw my arms around her.
“Riviana. Little Bunny. I missed you so much.” Her warmth was back. Her body felt alive again. She may not be able to move at the moment, but she was still in there, and I could tell. My wolf could tell. “Oh Goddess, Little Bunny, I am so happy you’re back. Thank you. Thank you for coming home to me.”
“I didn’t leave because I wanted to, Joaquin. I didn’t have a choice. I was trapped in that world, and I just couldn’t get back. I needed to take care of some things. But it wasn’t a quick process.” My Little Bunny was sounding so sad at that moment.
