Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“I need to get her to wake up. Whatever happened to her, she is still not fully awake.” I knew that I needed to wake her up, but how was I going to do that?
“Take her to the shower. Get her to wake up that way.” Rika suggested. “The cold might jolt her awake. Plus, it will rinse all of that off of her.” That wasn’t a bad idea at all.
I held Talia close to me as I rushed toward the bathroom. She was still screaming almost nonstop until we got in there. It was almost like something had broken through to her, but what was it?
Rudy had opened the door and started the water, that was good. It meant that I just needed to step into the shower with Talia to get the water to run over her and clean her up.
“It’s OK, Talia.” I soothed her as the water started to cascade over the both of us. It was all that I could do for her, and it wasn’t nearly enough.
There was something that seemed to be happening to her, to Talia. She was warm, very warm. And I could see something moving in her wide eyes. Something was happening.
“Talia?” Right when I said her name there was a sort of explosion.
“WHAT THE HELL!?” Rudy jumped back in fear.
“WHOA!”
“OH MY GODDESS!” Reagan and then Rika yelled out as well.
“TALIA!” I tried to hold her, but I hadn’t been prepared for the explosion of power and magic, and for Talia to change the way that she did.
I was sitting on the shower floor as I looked at what Talia had become. She was standing on four feet. She was a wolf now. She had changed. And what a wolf it was.
I was looking at a dark purple wolf that was tall and slender. Throughout the darker colored fur there were light streaks of purple that almost seemed to glow in the light. And speaking of glowing, Talia’s blue eyes were now violet and shining like there was a light behind them. She was beautiful and amazing.
“Talia?” I called out to her nervously as she walked to see herself in the mirror. “Are you OK?”
“I am fine.” She spoke perfectly clear, like there was nothing at all different about her.
“What happened?” Rika’s voice was filled with fear and aww. She couldn’t take her eyes off of her sister. “Why were you covered in blood?”
“I had another vision.” Talia turned to face me and sat down. “And this one was a lot worse than the others.”
At that moment, a little delayed from when I sent the guard to get them, Riviana and Joaquin showed up.
“Talia!?”
“You shifted?”
“And I had another vision.” She said this again. “I need to talk to you.” She was looking at her parents as she spoke, but if she thought for one minute that I wasn’t going to be there too then she had another thing coming.
“Then shift back, Talia. After that you can talk to me and your parents about the dream.” I made it clear that, as her head guard, I would be there.
“I can’t.” She seemed to shake her head. “I don’t know how.”
“I will help you. Everyone out.” Riviana was waving at them all. “Joaquin, ask Abigail to prepare breakfast so that we can talk.”
“Yeah, OK.” He nodded. “Let’s go.”
Everyone started to clear out except for me. I was going to protect her. I wasn’t going to leave her ever.
“Out Alexio.” Riviana yelled at me.
“I think I should stay. To protect Talia.” I refused to leave.
“OUT!” She ordered me. “Unless you think that I should let you look at my daughter while she is naked.” Her words sank in then. Talia’s clothes were destroyed. I needed to go.
“I will go get dressed and wait for you in the hall.” I literally ran out of the room. That was not something that I needed to see. I was her guard and that was inappropriate.
I couldn’t get out of that room fast enough. I needed to change anyway, so I made that my excuse, but I just really didn’t want to overstep my bounds. I knew that if I were to see something like that, Talia would never be comfortable with me as her guard ever again. Not only that, but I would likely be murdered by Joaquin. Not that I couldn’t take him, but I wouldn’t be able to fight my future queen’s father. That was wrong, so very wrong.
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Talia
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Mom had ordered all of the others out of my room. She was going to help me get back into my human form because I didn’t know how to. I think I remembered that she had done the same thing to Rika when she was about seventeen and shifted for the first time. And Dad had been the one to help Reagan when he shifted for the first time. I could understand the need for them to have their specific children to help with. When we shift back, we were going to be naked, that was just how it was. And I knew that my dad, as helpful and loving as he was, would never be the one to help me shift back to my human form. He would die first. And I think I would too.
Rika probably couldn’t help me either. She had only shifted last year, and she was not the most expert at all of this stuff herself. She could shift and all that, but I highly doubted that she would be able to guide someone out of a shift.
I wanted to sigh. I was so overwhelmed with emotions right now. I was scared, excited and happy all at the same time. I wasn’t used to having all of these things happening to me all at once. And I was still reeling from that vision that I had had. That was what had caused all of this.
To be honest, I was really happy that my mom was still in here with me. I didn’t want her to leave me alone right now. She had died in my vision and, honestly, I just couldn’t handle that right now. It was going to be so hard to tell her and Dad about that dream that I had just had. I didn’t want them to know that I had seen it and that it nearly drove me insane. However, I needed them to know so that they could protect themselves. I didn’t want to lose my parents. I loved them too much for that. I still needed them here with me. I was advanced in school, but I was still just a kid, especially in their eyes. I wasn’t ready for them to leave me. I wouldn’t be able to handle that at all.