Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“That is an understatement.” The man spoke again, this time his voice was a little louder, and rising until it was normal with each word that passed through his lips. “Women should not be allowed to do things like that. They do not have the right to question men. They belong at home, caring for children and making meals.”
OH! MY! FUCKING! GODDESS! Did I just hear that man correctly? I am not really sure if I did. I mean, if that man said what I think he just did, then the term ass clown was entirely too meek for him. He needed something worse, something more intense, but I just couldn’t think of something just yet. I would though, when the time was right, I would find the proper insult for him.
“Yeah, I agree.” Vincent said in a tough guy voice. “It’s hard having to see women in power.” He was such a bad liar that I knew the asshole had to have seen right through him. However, it appeared that the man was as blind as he was stupid, because he didn’t notice how blatant that lie was coming from Vincent.
Finally, I understood what Joaquin and Vincent were doing here. They had seen, during the time that I had attempted to interview the man, that he was not going to speak to me, mainly because I was a woman. He was a pig as well as an asshole. No, that was insulting, pigs were better than him. Unless he was just a particularly nasty part of a pig, that would count for him.
“I feel sorry for you men. Having so many women around you that are in such powerful positions. It isn’t right, but you three have to deal with it every single day. You should fight back. You should be more like us and fight against the injustices of the world.”
“Yeah, but I fear that your group would have a thing or two against us.” Joaquin joked with a laugh.
“Yes, they would. And it won’t be long before you perish. All the more reason for you three to stand up for yourselves now. You should make the last of your time worthwhile. I mean, you don’t want to die while being a slave to a dumb bitch, do you?”
I could see a twitch in Joaquin’s shoulders, a tightness in his lips that was unmistakable. He was pissed. That was obvious. He was angry at the man that was saying such rude things about his mate, but he had to just grin and bear it, if he was going to get this man to speak to him.
“Yeah, you might be right. I mean, I used to be the Alpha. I was the man in charge. I was the one that captured her when she tried to run away. I was always the one with the power, until she became the Queen. That was when everything changed.” With that, Joaquin heaved a big fake sigh that wouldn’t have passed even an off Broadway audition, not even an elementary school play audition.
“You should be the one in charge. Men are the ones that lead the world, it’s a fact. That’s why the Colonel won’t let women into the ranks. They have no reason to fight. If a woman comes to us wanting to help, they are sent to make uniforms, cook meals, and keep the headquarters clean. They are not to know a single thing about the mechanism that is the Colonel’s a-.” He stopped there. He seemed to come to his senses, realizing that he was about to say something that he shouldn’t. Dammit! I wanted to hear the rest of that. We needed all that info and more, if we were going to stop these people.
“Yes? What was that?” Joaquin prompted him. “The Colonel’s what?”
“Never mind about that.” He shook his head and tried to wave his hand in the air. He couldn’t though, as he was handcuffed to the table. “That isn’t important right now. I don’t want to talk about that. The Colonel has nothing to do with this.”
“Who is the Colonel though? Obviously, he is someone important, otherwise you wouldn’t have mentioned him.” Joaquin tried to press him to speak more on the topic, not too hard but with a gentle tone and a nudge with his words.
“No. The Colonel doesn’t have anything to do with this. He wasn’t a part of this. I did this on my own. I made the bombs on my own. And I was the one that decided to target the school. This was all on me. It has nothing to do with the Colonel.”
“Why did you target the school though?” Joaquin asked him, the man was able to speak to him easily, that was good. And I felt like Joaquin was somehow making the man forget that he was not human. He was feeling comfortable with Joaquin for the time being, and that helped a lot.
“Isn’t that obvious?” He asked as he rolled his eyes and shook his head. “I targeted that school because I wanted to get rid of those things that go there. The school is infested with monsters. And the only thing to do with a monster, is to destroy it. I was doing the world a favor.”
More tensing from Joaquin. More anger at this man that just so openly admitted that he was going to kill our children. He was the monster, not us. He was the one that would have taken innocent lives. He was not a person that should be allowed to walk the world freely. He was a threat to all of society.
“There were others targeted too. Why did you target more than just the monsters?” Despite the rage that must be burning inside of Joaquin, he was pushing through this interview as best as he could. He was much better at it than I would have been. I was about ready to jump through the glass and strangle the man for trying to hurt my family.
“The others that were targeted were suspected of either being monsters themselves, or sympathizers. We cannot stand humans that allow those things to impose on our lives. They shouldn’t be allowed to live among us humans, we perfect creatures.”
“Is that so? Even with how long those people have already been here? I hear they’ve been living among the humans for millennia now.”
“That is impossible. They cannot have gone unnoticed for so long. It is not fathomable, to have lived with things so monstrously hideous and not have known about it. I don’t believe that lie for a second, and neither does the Colonel. They have to have been a recent thing, in the last decade or two at the most. Possibly some sort of alien invasion or something, I am not sure about that, but they aren’t natural to this world.”
This man was full on stupid crazy. He was an idiot that didn’t know anything, he was just letting charismatic and powerful people fill his head with whatever ideals they wanted to. He was like a sponge that soaked up nothing but stupidity and insanity. In a way, I felt bad for people like him, so woefully misinformed about everything in life that they can’t see what is right in front of them. They weren’t open to the concepts of the truth and what was real. He was so blinded by the misinformation and the hate that it was ruining his life.
“I think that I am done talking now. The Colonel won’t like me speaking to you more. He won’t leave Benkel-.” He stopped mid sentence and then shook his head. “He won’t leave the headquarters for me. In fact, I am sure that he won’t even know that I have been arrested. I am not particularly high up in the group. I was actually trying to gain his favor with this stunt of mine. As I said, I acted alone.”
“Though you got the bombs, or the materials for them, from the Colonel, isn’t that right?” The man’s eyes gave him away, but he didn’t say anything at all. “You’re truly not going to answer me?” Joaquin asked him.
“No. I just remembered that you are the enemies. You are monsters, and I do not converse with monsters. You are good though, I will give you that. Your disguise is almost believable. I almost thought that you were truly human. You are not though, and that means that I cannot speak to you any longer. Leave me be.”
This was not ideal, but we had gotten some good information from the man, whether he had known it or not. We would be able to work with some of that information. And we might come back to talk to him later. At least we had something to discuss when we started to analyze things again.
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There was a lot that we needed to discuss, and a lot of people that needed to be a part of that discussion. It wasn’t just me, Riviana, and those of us that had been a part of or watched the interview take place. We needed to make sure that the others were a part of this as well. They all needed to know what it was that was going on. They needed to know what we had learned.
To be honest, it wasn’t all that much that we learned, but there was something. We knew that this guy had been a part of the PAWs, before the majority of the group had been arrested for their attack on the stadium. We knew that this man acted alone, but he was a part of a larger group. And this man, along with his whole group, had some messed up ideals that they wanted to force onto the world.
Knowing that we needed to gather the others for this conversation, we all returned to the castle, and once again to my Little Bunny’s office. It was, of course, the center location that we used for almost every meeting that we needed to have. It was large enough, comfortable enough, and private enough. Therefore, it fits all of the requirements.
I was still raging mad even as I walked into the office. I had to exercise every ounce of my self-control so that I wouldn’t end up hurting that man earlier today. The man that had so openly talked about wanting to kill my children, and the children that I considered family. Some of them were family too, because Elias was there, and he is my nephew. Those kids, innocent in every conceivable way, didn’t deserve what that monster was going to do to them.
I knew that I wasn’t the only one that was angry either. Vincent was pissed off because the man was going to kill the kids, and because he had insulted my Little Bunny. Yes, that pissed us both off, for different reasons though. For me, I was angered because she is my wife and mate, and I will not tolerate someone speaking like that about her. For Vincent, he is her faithful Beta, and he would not tolerate someone talking that way about his Queen. He was, in a sense, like another one of Riviana’s big brothers. And a very protective one at that.
Right now, I was sitting at the big desk that my tiny Little Bunny usually sat behind when working. I wasn’t sitting alone though, I needed the comfort of touch, and only the touch of my Little Bunny would do. So, I was sitting in Riviana’s large throne-like chair with her positioned on my lap. This contact, the touch and warmth of her in my arms, was helping me to keep the raging wolf inside of me under control.
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“I think you all know why we are here.” My Little Bunny started to speak, looking out over all the attendees. It wasn’t just the usual suspects here either, there were more. Of course there were Shawn, Dietrich, Shane, David, Vincent, and Gabriel, but there were others as well. Trevor, Gloriana, Valerian, Samuel, Wesley, Riley, Landon, Noah, Carter, Bryce, Jackson, Devon, Rawlynne, Paul, Cedar and Juniper. Honestly, the assembly was a little sexist, and even I could admit that, but these were the ones that we usually relied on. It wasn’t planned that there were only three women other than my Little Bunny.
“Yeah, is this about what happened at the school earlier?” Shane spoke in that rarely heard serious tone of his. He knew that this wasn’t a time to joke, and I was glad that he was able to turn off his jokes when the situation warranted it.