Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“Come to me when you need something, Reeselynn, I’m your best big brother, Zachary.”
“I think he means that I am the bestest big brother, Zander.”
“You’re both wrong.” Reagan said. “Cause big brother Reagan is the best of them all.”
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“Let them fight that out, girls.” Rika said as she laughed with her sisters. “The three of us all know that we are all the best. As long as she has the three of us, she will never have to worry about anything.”
“Yup.” Talia nodded with a smile.
“Agreed.” Zaley rolled her eyes and shook her head at her brothers.
The kids took turns holding the baby for a few minutes each. Then, when Reeselynn started to cry and needed to be fed, the seven of them went back down the stairs and to bed. They all wanted to stay and spend time with the baby, but they knew that we needed to take care of things for the time being.
This was going to be a first, in my opinion. When the quads were born, the twins were only eight. Now, the next youngest set of the kids, the quads, were eleven. All seven of the other kids were old enough to help out if they wanted to. Not that there was enough work for the seven of them, but they would be able to help out if they wanted to. Reeselynn was lucky really, to have so many siblings that already loved her so much. She was going to be blessed as the days went on.
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Dayton
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The moment that Queen Riviana had called me, I bolted out of my bed and prepared for whatever it was that needed my attention. Queen Riviana was not the type to just call me for anything random. In fact, she had never called me before. And even though I had not been sleeping at the time of the call, I still felt like there was a fog in my brain when I saw the number and name on the caller id.
“Hello?” I could hear the skepticism and disbelief in my own voice as I gave the greeting to the mysterious caller. It couldn’t really be her. Could it?
“Hello Dayton, it’s Riviana Gray.” At that moment, my heart started to race so fast that it was probably making a noise very much like that of a humming bird’s wings. This had to be bad, that was the only excuse that my brain could come up with. “We have a problem, and we need your help.” I knew it. Something had happened. Something was going on in our world, and that of the humans, that was not good at all.
“Wh..what is it, Queen Riviana? How can I help? I am at your disposal.” As I spoke quaveringly, I hurried to gather my thoughts and get somewhere that would be a little more conducive to note taking. I was sure that I would end up with a list of things to do.
“We received some disturbing news today, something that was far worse than the attack on the stadium.” I had known about the attack on the stadium. I had been told about it in advance, but there was little I could do about it without revealing what I was. And if I did that, then I would cause people to wonder which side I was working for. I couldn’t have that, not with people that were clearly against the nonhumans in my very own office.
“Worse? What could possibly be worse?” Different scenarios danced in my mind, but they were all woefully inadequate. I knew that for a fact.
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“Well, for one thing, the leader of the DOE is going on an extremist site and claiming that we murdered one of his members, that was clearly killed in that room that he had the video filmed in. And secondly, that leader of the DOE is none other than Harrison Orson.”
There was a ringing in my ear at that. Orson? The Harrison Orson? The man that had spearheaded the investigation into my people and tried to act like Queen Riviana and King Joaquin were criminals? That Orson? I couldn’t believe it.
“Orson?” My voice squeaked a little high on that word. “How do you know that it is him? It’s not that I do not believe you, but if I am going to go to my superiors with this, I need to be able to site the source of the information.” I was making notes already, but they weren’t what I had expected when I had grabbed the pad from my desk.
I listened to Queen Riviana tell me about a video that they had been sent. She explained that the site was protected but they had gotten access to it through the sender of the email. However, she told me that the video was blurred out and their voice was altered. That would mean that there was no proof, something that I pointed out to her immediately. I just couldn’t believe that Orson would, could, be the leader of the DOE.
“Then there is no proof.” I had interrupted her in my haste and almost instantly regretted it. I heard the annoyance on her end of the line. It was almost as if I was already able to see my end staring me in the face.
“The thing is, though,” she continued after just a quick annoyed huff. From there she went on to explain more in detail, all the while I was taking notes on the video that she had seen.
“I will do what I can in the morning. There isn’t anyone there right now. And Orson has been away on assignment for a while, or supposedly on assignment. I don’t know really, because no one knows anything about the work that he has been doing.” I sounded like I was rambling. Hell, I was rambling. There was so much that needed to be done, but it all seemed so surreal.
“No, we need this started tonight, Dayton.” She snapped at me almost angrily. “He is not going to let this go. He is losing his mind. He sees us as personal enemies of his. And not only that, Dayton, but he is amassing an army. And we are sure that he is using contacts to acquire weapons like bombs and tanks. We already know that he had been building a shit ton of bombs. We can’t let this be. He is dangerous, Dayton. It needs to be dealt with tonight.” An army? He wanted an army? But why?
“Alright. I will head in now. I will call my superiors and have them meet me there. They need to know about this. Email me that link you have, so they can see the video as well. We will stop him, Queen Riviana, I promise.” My heart had gone from moving so fast that it was humming to barely beating at all. I felt almost dead on the inside after hearing all that she had to say.
“Thank you, Dayton. I will wait up for you to call me back with an update. Let me know as soon as you know what is going to happen.
“I will, Queen Riviana. Just wait a little while longer. This won’t take too much longer.” I tried to sound reassuring, not just for her benefit but for mine as well. I needed the fortitude that it would give me.
On my way out of the door, before I was even in my car, I called my superior at home. They were used to late night calls like this with our line of work, but that didn’t mean that they were happy about it.
“What is it, Long?” Director Glick asked me in an angry tone of voice.
“Sir, there is a problem that warrants our attention.” I know that my voice was tight and that I sounded angry to him. I hoped that he didn’t hold that against me.
“That is for me to decide, Long. Now, what is it?”
“Sir, I have reason to believe that Agent Orson has been engaging in illegal activity.”
“Orson?” He sounded much more interested and alert at the mention of one of the more senior agents in our office.
“Yes Sir, I have reason to believe that Agent Orson is in fact the leader of the DOE.”
“The Destroyers of Evil? Are you serious?” I could hear him moving in the background. “What makes you think that Orson is at all associated with those terrorists?”