Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“It’s OK, Momma. We will be here with you.” Reagan offered me his support.
“Go ahead, Mom. Your people need you.”
“I know you will be just fine, Mommy. And if they get mad, just tell them that they’re lucky to have you. I know that I am.” Talia was just being so sweet.
“Alright, I will say something. But I am guessing that I need to do it while sitting down still.” I laughed and looked up at Joaquin in a joking manner.
“Well, I could hold you.” He winked at me.
“I’m good. Just let me move forward a little bit.” I laughed and shook my head at him and his absurd idea. Then again, I knew that he was going to say something like that anyway.
I was pushed to the front of the stage and my family stood behind me. I enhanced my voice with my magic to make sure that everyone in the ballroom would be able to hear me. Once I was ready, I knew that everyone in the room was staring at me. And I do mean everyone.
“Hello everyone. I am so delighted that you could be here today with me and my family. I know that I have not been around much lately. I do apologize for that.” I was slowly looking over them all. I was seeing the expressions in their eyes. I could see the heartache that they had experienced over the last few months. I could sense the fear that they felt at thinking that their queen was dead. I could feel it all. And it wasn’t exactly a good feeling.
Suddenly, I didn’t want to lie to any of them. Suddenly, what felt right to me was telling them all the truth. That truth would then spread through the rest of my people by word of mouth and then soon everyone would know. I knew that it was risky telling them all what had happened, but I felt that it was the right thing to do. I felt that, even with the positive nature of this event, they needed to hear this. So, that’s what I did. I told them everything.
“I know that you all were told that I was resting because I was pregnant. And as you can clearly see, I am very pregnant. Joaquin, Reagan, Rika, Talia and I will soon be adding three little boys to our family. However, when I went missing from the public eye, I didn’t know about the babies. Joaquin found out about them soon after while I was busy traveling with them. You see, my body was here, in my home, but my soul, and the souls of my boys were not here. We had left and gone to the underworld. I was taken there to help the evil goddess, Hekate, escape from her prison cell. Only I refused to help her. Instead, I stopped her. I put an end to her reign of terror once and for all. She died. And that was what allowed me to come home. My job was done. The threat was gone. And now we can live on in peace.”
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Riviana
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To say that the looks on the faces around me were stunned was an understatement. The pack members and the people from werewolf and magic user kingdoms were looking at me with their mouths hanging open in shock. Even my friends, family and guards looked like they couldn’t believe what I had just said.
I turned to look at my children and my mate, who were standing around me. Talia was smiling happily. I think she was just always happy, especially since her mommy woke up. Reagan and Rika were just fine too. They didn’t think it was wrong of me to have told them. They just wanted to get things moving. I think they wanted cake.
Joaquin was the one that I needed to be worried about. What was he going to think about me telling everyone the truth? What was he going to think about me spilling these secrets to all of them? Hopefully, he didn’t get angry at me.
When I turned to look behind me, into Joaquin’s eyes, I saw that he was smiling at me too. He wasn’t upset. He wasn’t scared about the consequences. He was just smiling.
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“I knew you were going to do that.” He laughed a little. “You couldn’t bear for them to continue living with a lie. They needed to know where their queen was.”
“You’re not mad?” I asked him, shocked to see that he was so easygoing about it.
“No, I’m not. I mean, we will need to deal with some people wanting to get more answers and all of that. But, you don’t need to do anything about that. Noah, and the others can handle it. They will see to it that there is no hysteria or anything like that.”
“Good.” I smiled at him and then turned back to the people that were watching me. “I am sorry, all of you.” This time my voice was loud for all of them to hear instead of whispering for Joaquin. “I didn’t mean to bring down the mood. I just wanted you all to know the truth. I was in the underworld. I literally made it through hell and now I am back. I am back and better than ever. And soon, all of us are going to be so much happier to welcome Zachary Aaron Gray, Zander Ian Gray and Zayden Issac Gray. And then, I do believe that our not so little family will be complete. At least for a while.” I grinned. Being immortal meant that I could have another baby in a hundred years if I wanted to. That was the benefit and joy of that.
“WHOOO!”
“YEAH!”
“QUEEN RIVI!”
“SHE IS SO AMAZING!”
“SHE TOOK ON HELL AND IS STILL THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN EVER!”
“YEAH!”
“SO CUTE! BABIES ON THE WAY! THE NAMES ARE JUST SO AMAZING!”
“WHOO! WHOOO!”
“GO QUEEN RIVI!”
The cheers had started up again. Apparently, they all thought that their queen was somehow amazing for having taken on the underworld. They didn’t know what had happened there, and in truth most of the people around me didn’t know, but they were just happy that I went and made it back.
Oh, not to mention, I did reveal the names of the boys to everyone here. That was major as well. We usually didn’t reveal the names like this, but I felt like they all deserved a special treat at the moment.
During all the commotion, my guards and family came running up onto the stage. Dietrich was in the lead and came to give me a hug first. As tall as he was (still shorter than Joaquin though) he didn’t mind crouching down just so that he could get a good hug with me.
“You look beautiful, meine Schwester.” He was always so sweet.
“Since when did I become your sister, Dietrich?” I asked him with a laugh.
“Since I declared it so, Riviana. Do you have a problem with that?” He laughed at me as he stood up.
“No, I do not. That just makes Shawn my brother as well. Oh, and I guess Shane too. And let’s not forget about David and Vincent. All of you will be my brothers. And I couldn’t be happier about that.”
