Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“I will keep that in mind.” I laughed at the idea of it. I never once even thought about it, and I never would, but it was nice hearing that from someone.
“My name is Clovio Mathias. It is lovely to meet you.”
“It’s nice to meet you as well, Clovio. My name is-.”
“Rika! Hurry up.” Clovio and I had stopped walking while we talked, which had caused the group to get a little ahead of us. Because of that, my brother took it upon himself to call out to me and embarrass me in front of a new friend.
“Ahh, Rika is your name. That is a name from my country. Did you know that?” Clovio smiled at me but then turned to look at Reagan who was glaring at us. “Is that your boyfriend?”
“Oh, God no!” I said it so fast and so vehemently that I made Clovio laugh. “That is my twin brother, Reagan.”
“Ha ha, well Rika, I think that your brother is waiting for you. Shall we go?” He didn’t offer his hand or anything, not that I would have taken it, but he was waiting for me like he was going to walk me back to the group that was waiting on us.
“Yes, I think we should. Before we lose the group entirely.”
Together, Clovio and I rejoined the group and listened in as best as we could. While doing that though, we started to talk about lots of different things. I found out that he, along with all the others from Germany, were from an orphanage that had received a special stipend to send their children that were never adopted to different colleges. While living here in the United States, they were going to be working on becoming permanent citizens and living here when they graduated. It was nice of the benefactor to do that for them.
I didn’t talk much about myself. I did talk to him just a little about the family, but not who or what my family really was. I didn’t tell him that I was a princess. I didn’t tell him that I was part werewolf, Fae, and witch. I didn’t tell him that my mother and father were a goddess and a god. I couldn’t tell him any of that because he wouldn’t believe me. Or he would think that I was crazy.
I did, however, tell him that my family name was Gray. I told him that I had a lot of siblings, so I knew what it was like to grow up in a house full of kids. I expressed my sadness that he had to be without parents and that he didn’t get to have that happy childhood.
Despite the hardships that Clovio had obviously experienced as he grew up, he didn’t seem to let it get to him. He seemed happy and very easygoing. He was also quick with a laugh and a joke. I actually found that he was quite funny. And, well, I think that I did like him a little bit. He was definitely interesting. If he just wasn’t a human, then he could be on the list for my first boyfriend.
I didn’t have anything against dating humans, like I said. I just didn’t want to be in a relationship with one, to fall in love with one, or to have one fall in love with me, only to find my true mate and end up leaving them. It wasn’t fair to them. It would just hurt them for no reason at all.
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Reagan
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I can’t believe my sister. She was standing there flirting with that German asshole. Was she really going to just jump at the first college guy that talked to her? Was she really going to be that shallow right here and now? I just couldn’t believe her. I mean, I wasn’t flirting with those girls. They were pretty. They were different. They had some nice accents. But I wasn’t fawning all over them. I wasn’t rushing to them and getting to know them.
And Rika wasn’t the only one either. I mean, I was looking at Alyssa and she was just staring at one of the German dudes too. What was their fascination with them? What were they seeing in them?
“Calm down, Reagan.” Luka came over to me and clapped me on the shoulder.
“Stop reading my mind.” I sighed at him. “That’s not fair.” Luka looked like his dad, Shawn. Well, one of his dads. Since he, Levi, Alyssa, and Alexa were all biologically born from their two dads. I didn’t know how it was possible, I just knew that it was what had happened to them. For Luka and his brother Levi, this meant that they had silver colored hair and eyes. They were tall, but not as tall as me. And they were strong but leaner than most people. The girls looked like their other dad, or Papa as they called him. They had black hair and very light blue eyes. These eyes almost looked white, that was how light they were.
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They also had four more siblings too. All of them were adopted. Luther was just a few months younger than they were and would be graduating next year with their sister Fauna and my sister Talia. Then there was eleven year old Bret and nine year old Ember. They had a bigger family than I did, but only by one. There were eight kids in their family and seven in mine.
“You know that I am not trying to read your mind.” He sighed in defeat. “It’s just the way that I am.” His words were whispered so that no one else would hear them. We weren’t supposed to let the humans know about us.
“I know.” He wasn’t lying. He just couldn’t help it. He was a hybrid. I mean, I wasn’t a pure-blood either. I had wolf, Fae and warlock blood too. We were all unique. But he was literally half wolf and half vampire. He had different oddities than I did.
What was weird was that he and Alexa were both half and half, but Levi was a pure wolf and Alyssa was a pure vampire. It was like the genetic gods had wanted to make their family very diverse or something. Being a hybrid between those two species though, made for some really unique qualities for them. Still, Luka and Levi were my best friends. We had known each other our whole lives and we were always hanging out whenever we got the chance.
“Still, how can you tell me to calm down?” I asked him with exasperation. “Look at your sister. She is staring at that guy like he’s the only man in the world. If I didn’t know any better, I would think that he is her mate or something.” I was shaking my head. He couldn’t be. If he were her mate, then she would be all over him.
“Whether he is or not isn’t my concern. My sisters can make their own decisions. And on top of that, if the guy breaks her heart, she doesn’t need me and Levi to protect her. That guy would need our help to stop her.” We laughed together at the thought of Lyssa killing the guy.
“Yeah, Lyssa can protect herself. And I guess Rika can too. She’s a strong girl and I know that she’s smart. I..I guess I am just overly protective of my family.” I tried to shrug it off, but I couldn’t. It was just who I am.
“Yeah, who would have thought that the son of the Alpha would be an Alpha. That is just so surprising. I mean, none of us saw it coming at all.” Levi finally spoke up as he came to stand next to us as well.
To most people, Levi and Luka were identical. And Alyssa and Alexandria were identical. But that was only to people who didn’t know how to look at them. Or for people that hadn’t known them their entire lives. They had different ways of standing and walking. They were different people, and their friends and family could easily tell them apart. For people that didn’t know them though, they could just look for the red ring on the inside of Luka and Alexa’s eyes. That was the mark of their hybrid status. They were the only ones in their family that had that red part to their eyes.
“Hey, Reagan, you know something. These people aren’t from around here. They don’t know your family. They don’t know the reputation that surrounds you. It’s the chance to make some new friends that aren’t after your parents’ fame or your money. I think that we should be nice to them and hang out with them. It would be nice, in a way.”
“Hmm. You might be right.” I took in the words that Luka had just said. He wasn’t wrong. Most people that weren’t part of the inner circle just wanted to use me for money or notoriety. It had happened a lot when we were kids and all throughout high school. That was why I was glad that we had that large group of friends in our year at school. I always had someone there to hang out with, even if the leeches were there.
“Of course, he is right. It’s time for us to make more friends.”
“I think more friends would be good.” This was when my cousin Elias came over to join us. We had started to lag behind a little, so the group wasn’t exactly with us anymore. “But I also think that staying with everyone is also a good idea.” Elias was the oldest one in our group. Only by a few months but he acted like it was by years. He was, in every aspect of his character, a carbon copy of his dad. He was smart and efficient, fiercely protective of his siblings and cousins, and he even looked just like his dad with dark brown hair and eyes. He and my uncle Noah both gave off an air of someone that was a butler. Though they were nothing at all like Peter, the actual butler. It was just strange to me how much he and his dad were alike.
“Don’t worry, Elias. We’re on our way now.” Luka gripped my shoulder and started to push me in the direction of the group. “And when we get there, we’re going to make new friends. With the German students as well as the tour guides. We’re starting college next week, we have to be nice and make friends, that’s like a requirement or something.”
Luka didn’t stop pushing me until we made it to the rest of the group. My sister was standing with all the girls in a group now. She was getting them all to unite or something. That was understandable. I mean, she was pretty and popular. Everyone had always flocked to her.
I couldn’t be shown up though. She was my sister and we competed in just about everything that we could. That meant that I needed to make friends and unite the group the same as she was doing. Well, I didn’t have to, but I was going to do it anyway.
“Hey, nice to meet you all. Sorry I didn’t introduce myself earlier.” I was walking toward the group of guys that were new here. “My name is-.”
