Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“What?” Joaquin’s tone was the same as mine. It was filled with confusion. “I didn’t take her last night. I was too fucking sore for that. Granted the hot bath did help, but we didn’t have sex last night.”
“B..but, that doesn’t make sense.” Dietrich shook his head now, mimicking the confusion.
“Ahem.” I cleared my throat. “W..we made love yesterday morning before we took that nap after Talia’s vision, but not since then.”
“No, that doesn’t seem to fit. If it had happened at that time, then we would have seen it earlier. We would have noticed it last night.” It was Shawn’s turn to be confused now. The furrowing of his brow made the scar on his face stand out more.
“What are you talking about?” I demanded of them. This was getting old really fast, and I wanted to know what was happening.
“Riviana, you’re pregnant. And you weren’t pregnant last night when we saw you.”
“WHAT?!” Joaquin and I both said that one word as a question at the same time after we heard what he’d had to say. It was like it was synchronized to be in perfect harmony.
What were they talking about? I mean, yeah it was possible for me to be pregnant. I mean, we did go at it yesterday. Quite thoroughly at that. But how could I be pregnant now when I wasn’t last night? What had happened? What had changed?
I turned my head, taking my eyes off of Dietrich’s intense face and turning to look at Joaquin. He looked about as surprised as I felt. He hadn’t noticed it yet either. I could see it in his eyes.
“I..I knew that there was something.” He said leaning in and pressing his nose against the curve of my neck. It tickled when he inhaled deeply, drawing in my scent and checking the validity of Shawn and Dietrich’s claims for himself.
“Joaquin?” I shuddered a little at the feel of his face against my neck.
“I sensed something last night. As I was drifting off to sleep. I knew that something was playing on the edge of my senses, but I was too tired and too distracted to notice.”
“No one is going to blame you for being distracted, Joaquin.” Vincent called out to him. “There was a lot that I either ignored or didn’t notice after I almost died. It was like my mind was telling me that it didn’t have the room for it at the moment.” I looked at Vincent with sad eyes. He had been as close to death as Joaquin had been, so he knew this for a fact.
“I sense it now.” Joaquin’s voice was deeper than usual, growling low and menacing when he spoke. “And they are right, Riviana. You are pregnant.”
“Like we would be wrong.” Dietrich harrumphed and crossed his arms.
“What do you take us for?” Shawn copied his noise and his pose as he turned away a little, making it so that we couldn’t see either of their faces clearly.
“It’s not that I doubted you.” Joaquin’s voice was a little less menacing now. And there was definitely a playful edge to his lips. “I just needed to be sure for myself. I mean, I didn’t think that my wife was pregnant. And that kind of annoys me.” He narrowed his eyes. “I missed the last two. One was because you ruined your own smell with stress and overwork, and this time because I almost died, but neither is an excuse.”
“Both are perfect excuses, you moron.” I slapped him on his chest. “We have had a lot going on.”
“Still, I am sad that I wasn’t the first to know. They were.” He pointed at Shawn and Dietrich.
“The benefits of being the best uncles in the world.” Dietrich flipped his hair playfully as he complimented himself.
“Well, what I want to know is how Riviana seemed to have that delay?” Vincent asked as he moved the subject forward.
“Well, I know that for some human women, they will have sex just before they ovulate and get pregnant that way. Maybe this is what happened.”
“Were you at that point in your cycle?” Vincent’s eyes were quizzical as he asked.
“No.” I shook my head and answered honestly. “It would have been too soon.”
“So, what caused it?” Shane seemed to be buzzing like a hyper child. “Oh, congrats by the way.” After he said the word, all of them congratulated me before moving on with the conversation.
I thought about last night and what might have happened to cause me to ovulate before I was supposed to. How was it that I got pregnant when I knew that I shouldn’t be? There had to be something to cause it, but what was it?
After a moment, something dawned on me. We had saved Joaquin’s life. We had all pooled our magic together. There was life bringing magic in the room.
“The magic.” I said as I looked up. Vincent and Joaquin understood it right away, but the others didn’t.
“Last night, Riviana, all the kids, and all the members of their family, poured magic into Joaquin, as Riviana said during the meeting. It was powerful, very powerful. I could feel it across the large room they were in.” Vincent’s voice was in awe.
“It was life magic. And I guess that it had somewhere else to go at that moment. I saved a life, Joaquin, but it also created one as well.”
“As long as it is our baby, I don’t care.” He grinned at me and leaned in. “I love you, Riviana.” Joaquin held me tight with the others watching. This was an amazing turn of events. It was something that I hadn’t thought was going to happen, but I wasn’t upset about it either. We were going to have another baby. Who would be upset about that? I know that neither Joaquin nor I were. And I had a feeling the kids would be happy as well.
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Riviana
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I was still riding high after being told about the baby. It was something that we hadn’t expected at all, but it was a welcomed surprise. Joaquin and I were both giggling giddily as we walked into my office for a meeting with most of the others. We weren’t announcing anything just yet, not before we told the kids. But we would get to it soon enough.
Right now, we all needed to talk about what we needed to do with the Jaegan. They had to be dealt with. And there was a lot that they needed to pay for and atone for. They had taken a lot of lives. And they had waged a war against an entire population that they hadn’t even known the truth about. They were ignorant and misinformed, and that was a deadly combination.
“I am happy to see you well, Joaquin.” Athair m贸r shook my mate’s hand as we entered the room. He wasn’t the only one either. Aunt Glory rushed up to give him a hug and tell him that she was happy he was alive. Paul and Cedar shook his hand and hugged him at the same time. Pulling him in like that bro hug or whatever it’s called.
“Joaquin!” Juniper stomped over toward him.