Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“Calm down, Joaquin. I am sure that there have been rumors from somewhere.”
“Indeed there are.” Lara tried to look a lot smaller than she had been in response to Joaquin’s anger. “I didn’t mean to anger you, it’s just that there are rumors as to why these men are always with you.” They all started to laugh, with the exception of Joaquin that is.
“No, I do not sleep with them. I have only been with one man in all of my life, and that is my husband Joaquin. The others are like brothers to me. They are my guards and close advisers. They are all just as happily married as I am. So, to answer that question Lara, I have never slept with a single one of them.”
“Well, at least we can say that you people have morals.” Lucas grinned and I saw a slight lessening of that cunning look. I was starting to think that perhaps he was just unfortunate looking after all.
“We prefer to be called super naturals.” I smiled at him. “And we have a lot of morals. You will find that the majority of our people will be completely faithful once they decide to marry. We are intensely loyal to our lovers as well, so there won’t be much infidelity among our kind.”
“Good to know.” Katya smiled and her dark eyes crinkled.
“Alright then, allow us to continue. Vincent, if you wouldn’t mind.”
“Of course, Riviana.” He gave the gathered crowd a nod and then turned to lead us in the direction of the throne room. It was time for us to start discussing whatever it was that Lara had in mind earlier. I was sure that whatever it was going to be, it had to be interesting.
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Riviana
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Normally, I would enter the throne room from the back. I would not be entering it with the crowd that I was intending to speak to. I would do things by the book and play the role of the queen that I had held for a long time now.
This time though, there was no need to enter like that. They were literally following along after me and the others at the moment, so there was no need to have me walk all the way around to the other side of the throne room just to enter facing them. That would just delay this conversation unnecessarily. Not only that, but I was sure that these humans would feel a lot better if we were all to enter the space together.
There were literal oohs and ahhs from behind me as we entered the throne room. The guests to this place that had never seen it before were obviously impressed by what it was that they saw.
“This room is huge.” I heard Travis breathe the words out softly. He obviously didn’t think that I would be able to hear him.
“Yes, well, I need to have room for quite a few members of my kingdom. We have quite the extensive guestlist at times.”
“O..oh.” I saw him out of the corner of my eye, his face was turning a bright crimson red. He was embarrassed.
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“I know that we have a lot to discuss, and I think that this should be a little more intimate and special than most other discussions that I have. Shawn, Dietrich, do either of you object to these men and women sitting in the seats meant for our advisory council?” I was asking them because some of the seats were theirs, but also because I wanted to make sure that the humans knew they were being treated with respect.
“I think that would be best.” Dietrich nodded and gave them a smile. “This way please, if you will all follow me.”
The guards guided them to their seats at the lesser dais. Most of the guards moved to stand around Joaquin and I on the stage, but some of them stayed around the reporters. It wasn’t prudent to let them go completely unguarded in our home. Not at this point in time anyway.
“Alright.” I called out as I sat on my throne. “We can start discussing whatever it was that you had on your minds. Lara, I do believe that you were the one that was starting this earlier, would you like to begin?” I waved in a welcoming gesture to let her know that she had the floor.
“Thank you, Mrs. Gray.” She rose from her seat, obviously not wanting to talk while still seated. “The things that I wanted to discuss with you earlier, and still wish to talk about now, are where we all go from here. I think that I am in perfect agreement with those that are gathered here with me when I say that we are all stunned and amazed. I mean, there were rumors, like the ones about you and your guards, which talked a lot about you not being human. That permanently young face of yours has led to a lot of talk over the years.” She winked at me. “I know that we are not supposed to believe rumors, but there was a lot that we who strive for the truth just couldn’t overlook. Now that we have been given the truth by you though, I think that you need our help more than ever before.”
“Yes, I agree.” My answer came easily, but the words that came from Joaquin at almost the same time weren’t in sync with me at the moment.
“Why do we need you now more than ever?” He asked her.
“Well Mr. Gray, you have just told the world that these rumors are true. And as we all saw at the stadium, there are a lot of people that don’t like the idea of that. I don’t know how many people like that there are in this world, but I think that there are going to be a lot of them. And some people that might join them because they simply don’t know any better. Right now, you need us to get the truth out there. We need to tell the world what kind of people you really are. We need to show them the good that you have done over the years, and that you will continue to do over time.” Lara’s words were spot on in my opinion. I knew that she was going to be an asset to me.
“I agree with Lara.” Darius rose to his feet. “There are a lot of things that the world doesn’t know about monste… Erm, I mean, about super naturals. There are a lot of things that we need to learn from you so that we can tell the world that they have nothing to fear.” His face darkened in color, not really showing red but definitely a blush that showed how embarrassed that he was about almost calling us monsters. That was something that I knew was going to happen no matter what. There would be people that just didn’t know what to call us, and monster was going to be their go to word.
“Thank you, Darius.” I showed him that I held no ill will toward him for that slip of the word. “We really are going to be relying on all of you to help get the truth out. We will never lie to you, and I just ask that you show us the same courtesy by not lying about us to the rest of the world.”
“Mrs. Gray, I assure you that I will never lie. I will give the facts as I have them, and if people continue to hide the truth from me I can only speculate on what has been told or shown to the world, but once I have learned the truth, I will make sure that it is out there for the entire world to see.” Lara sounded more serious than I ever thought that she would be. She was definitely wanting to prove to me that she wasn’t going to make up stories about us.
“That is good to know. Are all of you in a similar frame of mind?” I looked over the other dozen of them and saw more or less that all of them were nodding in agreement. “Good. Now that we have that settled, I will begin to answer your questions.”
A sort of palpable excitement had just flowed through the room following my statement. They were excited to hear what it was that I was going to tell them. And I was equally excited. Only my eagerness about the reverse of theirs. I was excited to know what they were going to ask me. I mean, what was it that a human wanted to know about a supernatural such as me and the others that were part of my kingdom? Their questions had to be interesting, didn’t they?
“Well Mrs. Gray, may I begin?” Lara, who was still standing, asked with shining eyes and a huge smile.
“Be my guest, Lara.” I felt a flutter in my stomach at the prospect of telling her what she wanted to know.
“I have a lot of questions that I want to ask, but I think that we all want to know this one. How long have you been a queen?” There was a murmur of assent that went through the others, they did want to know this.
“I found out that I was the Goddess Incarnate on my wedding day. So, I have known since March seventeenth, Two thousand and twenty-one. I was nineteen at the time.”
“So, almost twenty years now?” Wade affirmed.