Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“Wrong?” My tone was questioning. That one word of mine was asking him to explain further. I needed to hear it from him.
“It is best if she sees it now. To learn it now with others around to comfort her and help her. I thought this when Lucifer told her about the pain that the others felt. She was hurt, but her mother was there to comfort her. Riviana will not be there in the underworld with her. Her mother will not hold her hand when she is a goddess. She needs to be prepared now or she will suffer more later.”
I had to admit that he had a point. I hadn’t thought about it before, but protecting Talia for as long as we could, would only end up hurting her in the long run. It would make her start in the underworld that much more painful.
At that moment, from across the large room that we were in, I heard raised voices. It was my Little Bunny snapping at Talia.
“I do not care! I told you to stay put. Being curious is not a good enough excuse.”
“Will you tell Queen Riviana what I said?” Alexio wasn’t looking at me, he was watching the scene across the room. He was waiting for the moment that Talia would storm away in anger and frustration. He knew her well enough to know that it would happen. And sure enough, right after he asked that, Talia stomped toward the door. Both Alexio and Rudy followed after her. They were very attentive guards.
“Yeah. I will tell her.” He was walking away already, but I knew that he heard me.
I was about to walk over to Riviana. I was about to tell my Little Bunny what it was that Alexio had said. And that I agreed with him. However, I was stopped even before I took the first step. My phone began to ring, and the sound was loud in the now silent room.
“What do you have for me, Rawlynne?” I answered in a slightly curt manner. I had seen the caller ID and I knew that this was not going to be good news.
“Four more.” That was all she said. Nothing else. And that was fine, because I knew exactly what she meant.
“Where are they?” I asked her, my heart already aching.
“Scotland, a village called Carrush. Ireland, a village called Hunter’s Cross. In England, a village in the southern part of Surrey called Wolfhamm. And finally, in Australia, on the outskirts of Sydney.”
“All were villages except for the last one. I know that they have been known to hit larger cities before, but it is more rare. I believe that they like to stay away from people as much as possible. Why risk the big city like that?” I was talking more to myself than to Rawlynne, but she still felt compelled to answer me.
“I think that they are getting more and more bold. The longer that we go without finding them, the more they will attack and the more people that will be killed. They may move up their kill schedules or they may kill more at a time. The more populated areas will give them more targets to choose from.”
“Yeah. And that is something that we simply cannot allow. Dammit. Now I need to decide which location we are going to next. I want to visit them all as soon as possible. We need to contact them all as well. Take care of that for me. Tell them to not cremate the bodies. They are to wait for us. The souls are still in the bodies and they are tortured during the cremation. Stop more people from being hurt, Rawlynne. Call all the people that you have to and tell them to wait for us.”
“Y..yes. I will.” I could tell that she was feeling a little upset about what she heard, but she would take care of it without any issues.
“I need to go now. I have to talk to Riviana and figure things out.”
“Yes, I understand. I will call the others immediately. Let me know when you have something.” She hung up then, heading off to do the work that I gave her. Riviana and I would definitely need to hold a meeting soon. We needed to tell the others back home what was going on. And not to mention, we needed to tell the rest of the guards about what was going on. Not all of them even knew about the words that were left at the scenes.
Hahh. There had been so much that had happened so far. So much in such a short amount of time. I just wish that we would catch these guys soon. To save more people from dying.
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Riviana
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“I need to go now. I have to talk to Riviana and figure things out.” Those were the words that I heard when Joaquin was done with his call. I had figured that it was about the case, more murders to be exact, based on his side of the conversation that I had heard. There was talk about villages and cities and where to go next.
At first, I was a little pissed off that they had called Joaquin instead of me. Wasn’t I the queen? Wasn’t I the one that was in charge here? So, why then, was I not the one to be told about these things first?
I was only upset for a little bit. That was, until I looked at my phone and saw that I had never taken my phone off of silent. And I had several missed calls. There was one from Rawlynne, whom I am guessing was the person that called Joaquin just now. However, there were also calls from Reagan and Rika. They seemed to want to talk to me pretty bad. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have had six missed calls from Rika and seven from Reagan. Oops, I guess I was the one in the wrong here. Sorry Rawlynne, I was being grumpy for no reason.
“Little Bunny, we need to talk.” Joaquin came over to me and whispered.
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“Joaquin, please don’t call me that while we are in other countries. I don’t need the whole world knowing what your nickname for me is.” I sighed and rolled my eyes in an overly dramatic way. Part of it was to get the frustration out, the other part was to break the tension that was around us.
I knew that the conversation that was about to follow was not going to be pleasant, but being overly tense was not going to help me at all.
“I promise not to call you that as long as you promise not to call me by any dog names.” He grinned, giving me a counteroffer.”
“Fine.” I held my hand out to him to strike the deal.”
“Good.”
Joaquin shook my hand to seal the deal. After that, he pulled me along behind him as he left the room that we were in. He marched me along until we got to Bevin’s office. The Alpha was, rightfully so, in his office. He was working on something but that didn’t seem to bother Joaquin at all.
“Bevin, I need to borrow your office. We need to talk in private and I do not know the layout of your home.” Joaquin just barged right into the room like he owned it. He didn’t knock or anything. He was acting like he was in charge. Well, he was, next to me that is.
“O..oh, yes. Yes, of course. I understand. Please, use the room to your convenience. I will step out and take care of some business. I uhm, I had some other things that I needed to be doing anyway.” He was being very subservient to Joaquin right now. I understood that Joaquin was the Alpha King, that meant that all of the other Alphas were to report to him and that they couldn’t disobey him at all but seeing this in action was a completely different thing altogether. It was weird seeing an Alpha take a lesser role. Even after all these years, it was something that I had never gotten used to.
Once Bevin left the office, Joaquin pulled me over toward the couch that was in the corner of the room. He put his hands on my shoulders and guided me to sit down, all while he was looking right into my eyes.
“I got a call from Rawlynne.” He said as soon as we were sitting.
“I gathered as much. How many were killed this time?” I didn’t act shocked. I didn’t act like I expected there to be no more deaths. I didn’t pretend like it wasn’t happening. I wasn’t na?ve or stupid. I knew what was going on in my world. I knew what was happening to my people. And I wasn’t about to expect that it was all going to end overnight. It was going to end, and hopefully soon. But it would only end when we caught the people that were responsible for this.