Chapter 1312 – Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel

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“Yes, I did.” He kissed Heather’s hand before looking up to me. “We’re having a little girl soon, and her name will be Grace.”

“That’s right. And Acacia, wife to my good friend Cedar, they have news, do they not?”

“We do.” She leapt to her feet. “Three little ones, two girls and a boy. I just simply love having babies.” She rubbed her belly with a big smile as the others applauded her and Vincent.

“And there is more.” Roisin rose to her feet with Gabriel at those words.

“We’re having twins, one of each. We are so overjoyed.” Gabriel was kissing Roisin’s temple as she spoke to the crowd.

“We recently adopted twin boys, Carsten and Casper, and we’re also pregnant as well.” Shawn had almost leapt to his feet as well. “Being that we’re both Gods now, I am sure that we were granted the ability to have more biological children. This November we will have our eleventh and twelfth children.”

“Our hearts just have so much love to give to our children, and we will always welcome new ones into our home. Through adoption or not, we are far from done adding to our family tree.” Dietrich made this a heartfelt declaration that Shawn and all their kids seemed to agree with.

“I am so happy for all of you.” I beamed at them all before turning to look at the others. “Now, is there anyone else that wants to announce something?” I made it obvious that I was looking for baby announcements. This was the time for that, since it was the baby explosion that happened after I had Reeselynn. I really needed to stop having kids.

The first to get to their feet was, unsurprisingly, Aunt Glory and Athair m貌r.

“I am having twins!” Aunt Glory squealed happily. “I don’t know if they are boys or girls yet, but they are there.” She rubbed her belly. And then Athair m貌r spoke as he pulled Daciana to her feet.

“We are having one as well.”

“Queen Gloriana, you are having two girls. And Daciana is having a boy.” Dietrich said calmly, the best gender revealer in the world.

“EEE!” Daciana and Aunt Glory squealed at the same time.

“Well, I guess we’re next.” Landon got to his feet. “I have to compete with Trevor I guess, we’re having a baby too.”

“Two.” Shawn laughed. “One of each.”

“Awesome.” Landon sat back down.

“Over here as well.” Griffin said as he and Lana rose to their feet. “One for us.”

“A boy.” Dietrich told him.

“Thank you.” Lana nodded as they sat back down.

“Any others?” I asked, not expecting anything.

“Here.” Lila said with a smile. “Joaquin is going to have another little sibling.”

“Mom!?” Joaquin was dumbfounded.

“I am immortal now, Joaquin, and I am much younger than I used to be.” She laughed delightedly.

“I cannot wait to meet Joaquin’s twin brothers.” Shawn laughed. “I wonder if they will be like him at all.”

“Twins?” Grandfather looked shocked but also happy.

“Riviana, you did it again.” Shane said as he stood to announce that he was having baby number three.

“Nice, another little girl.” Shawn grinned at him. “I cannot wait to meet my niece.”

“Sweet!” Shane sat back down.

“Rawlynne and I are not having another one.” David said. “Sorry!” He laughed about it though.

“Too bad, because I am.” Jackson laughed as he leapt up. “Melita is pregnant with our third baby.”

“Another little girl. You will be tied with Rawlynne and David now.” Dietrich grinned.

“Ha ha ha, can’t get away from you, huh sis!” Jackson laughed as he sat back down. “This is awesome. Babies everywhere.”

“It most definitely is amazing.” I said as I started to move on.

“There is one more.” Juniper rose to her feet. “I just found out this morning.”

“Yay!” I bounced on my feet. “I am so happy for you Juniper.”

“I am excited.” She was practically shaking with excitement as she told us.

“I look forward to meeting her.” Luka said with a smile. “I am happy for you, Aunt Juniper.”

“Thank you, Luka.” She sat back down in her chair, beaming at Paul as they held onto each other.

All in all, there were nineteen babies on the way. If you added in Reeselynn, that made twenty. It was just like what happened with Reagan and Rika all over again. It was almost the same number of babies in this time as there was last time, and I knew that there was a lot that we had to look forward to with these babies.

One of the most important things being that they were going to be raised together and that they would almost always have someone that they would be able to play with. Those were always the benefits and upsides to have so many babies at the same time.

The party got underway after all of the announcements. There were a lot of my guests that were not able to get on to the rides that we had provided for the carnival experience with the kids, but they were able to do the water slides, because they were small and inflatable. And they got to have fun with Joaquin’s water war games. That was actually fun for everyone that was old enough to take part in it.

Grandfather wasn’t interested, so he said that he would watch Reeselynn as well as Carsten and Casper. Not feeling much like the kid games either, Lila and mom sat it out as well. Dad took part in it all though.

I am not sure when the last time that we all had this much fun was. We didn’t have to think about the problems of the world. We didn’t have to worry about if our people were safe. We didn’t need to stress and let that affect our moods or any of those things. We were able to just relax, have fun, and enjoy every moment of that day.

It was dark before we knew it, but water wars were just as fun in the dark as they were in the day. And the only time that we stopped having a good time in the grounds, was when we all settled in to watch the massive fireworks display that Joaquin had set up for us. It had more explosions than the ones you see on TV, and the kids absolutely loved it all.

I spent the time snuggling a slightly fussy Reeselynn, she didn’t like all the noise, and letting Joaquin snuggle me against his side.

I couldn’t believe how much time was flying by today, or how it was likely to fly on by in the months to follow as well. We were going to be busy with getting the kids off to college again and with a baby that was growing so rapidly. Before we knew it Reeselynn would be crawling and walking. The quads would be teenagers before I knew what hit me.

Reagan and Rika were going to find their mates, get careers and move on with their lives. It was all coming toward us, and it was all going to happen soon. I just knew that it would.

For just this moment, for these next few minutes and hours spent with the ones that I loved, I could pretend that this moment would last forever. I could make myself think that things were done changing, even if they were good changes.

I could lie to myself and say that there was no way that Reeselynn would ever stop being this little baby in my arms, but she was already getting so much bigger and older. It was happening, whether I wanted it to or not. And Reeselynn, along with all of my other children, they were my legacy that I was giving to this world of ours. They were the greatest things that I had ever done or would ever do.

To think, with all the things that we do in life, we forget it all in times of peace. And all that matters, the only things that will have any significance at all, will be the people that you are with. And that is why I am here right now. That is why I wanted to have this party. I wanted to have a gathering of all those that I hold dear.

The closer that I am with these people, the better version of myself that I am.

There was one thing to remember though. Moments like these, while perfect and amazing, only lasted so long. Like the fireworks that were in the sky, things would eventually go dark again. And that was why I needed to cherish and savor this as much as I could. We all needed to do that. Not just me, but everyone in the world needed to appreciate the good things in their life.

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Riviana

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Peace. Finally, after this last year with all the craziness that had happened, after the heartache and pain, the happiness and joy, the losses and the gains, the hard time and the good, we finally have a semblance of peace in our lives. I have been longing for this, looking forward to times when I didn’t need to worry as much. Since August of last year, we have been wary and on edge.

And now we are able to relax.

It’s been ten months since it all started to happen, the Jaegan and then the reveal that had come with its own set of problems. And hell, it was actually only eight months of issues for us. Nine if you date back to the first of the murders, but only eight that we actively knew about it all.

Thinking about it all now, yeah there was a lot that happened all at once, but it was hardly all that we had had to deal with over the years. I was thirty-nine years old. It has been twenty-one years since I met Joaquin, twenty years that we have been married, and almost twenty years since I became a mom for the first time. That was still almost six months away.

When I remember the days when I first met Joaquin, when I thought that he was just an angry alpha that didn’t want to ever see me again, that had been the night that he literally tripped over me and landed on top of me at the party. Then everyone got mad at me because I stayed at Juniper’s for the night and didn’t tell them.

Also, I was attacked by that rogue on the way home, Joaquin had saved me that time as well.

From that day on, I have lived with Joaquin, though not always willingly. In fact, that night I had tried to run away, and Joaquin stopped me. That was the first time that he called me Little Bunny, and I hated it with a passion. And that’s part of the reason why I called him Fido. And while I continued to call him dog names, he stuck with Little Bunny, and it’s become his affectionate name for me.

I will admit, I actually kind of like it now.

In the beginning, the biggest problem we had was who was after me and why. Joaquin thought it was because of his status as an Alpha, and that one of his enemies was after me. And while there was an enemy of his working with the bad guy, it was my father that was after me. And oh what a trip that was. The fight that led to me getting my wolf and finding the traitors, it was crazy.

Then, I got engaged, got pregnant, got married, fought my father, lost the baby, killed my father, got pregnant again, and had Reagan and Rika. Oh, and let’s not forget that during that time I found out that I was the Goddess Incarnate, the Luna Queen, and the leader to all the shifters in the world. And Thoth made me the Queen to all the magic users as well.

It was a lot of responsibility for me at the time.

It wasn’t until I went to the Fae realm for the second time, found out that Queen Gloriana and her brother Valerian were related to me. That I was Valerian’s great great great granddaughter. They helped me build my kingdom, having had practice with that for a long time. And, ever since then, I have had a functioning kingdom that spans the entire world. It wasn’t all peaceful though.

One of Aunt Glory’s friends was killing Fae and needed to be stopped, but she was being manipulated and controlled by Valerian’s, or Athair m貌r, ex-wife. And that makes her my great great great grandmother. Talk about a blight on the family tree.

I had to kill that relative of mine, but I did so with a little bit of help from Antirrhinum, my great great grandfather who died in the war hundreds of years ago. He helped me to stop the evil from spreading. And there was another time that a relative of mine helped me stop yet another relative that was hell bent on taking over the world.

Oh, this time, hell was an actual part of it. I was in the underworld, metaphysically, and it was there that I came face to face with truths about myself and the world. There are bad parts in all of us. And the choices that we make, no matter how noble they may seem, can have widespread consequences that we do not know about.

The relative in hell that I had needed to stop was another grandmother of sorts. You see, Thoth and his wife, Hekate, had created the entire race of witches and warlocks. And all the other magic users in the world. Hekate, a Goddess of darkness and death, was doing bad things to the humans and needed to be stopped.

She had been locked in the underworld for a long time, but she thought I would help her escape.

Surprisingly enough, I saw my father in the underworld. He was there for his punishment, as he well should have been, but he was different. He had seen that he was wrong. He was clear minded for the first time since his youth. And he knew that his actions were reprehensible.

In a moment of dire need, in the furthest depths of the underworld, part of the true version of hell that we think of it as, I was fighting with Hekate. With me were two guards from the underworld that were helping me, and the souls of the three babies that I was pregnant with. Reagan and Rika were almost eight and Talia, our third baby, was four.

And I was actually pregnant with four babies, but the little girl didn’t have a soul yet. Just the boys that were with me.

There was a point when the boys were in danger and needed to be saved, and it was none other than my father, Gannon Edmond, that saved them. He let his soul be destroyed to save them. Only it didn’t destroy his soul. Instead, he was sent for rebirth and his soul was the one that my little girl, Zaley, ended up with. My father stopped suffering, and his soul had another chance at a good life.

We had ten years of peace after that. Ten years where nothing at all happened. At least, almost nothing happened. It was that time, after ten years, when the Jaegan started their killing spree and all these bad times came upon us for one of the hardest years we had had in quite a long time. In all honesty, with all that happened lately, it might have been the worst of our time.

It was hard to tell who was worse, my father, or the combined efforts of the Jaegan and the DOE. A lot of people died in both times, and there was fear all around.

At least it was over now. There was still some strife, as there was likely to be with the world adjusting to life with us in it. Still, we were able to live safely at the moment, and that was what mattered. The kids could go to school, Reagan, Rika, and Talia were all going off to college in the fall. And there were so many more babies being born into our ever expanding family. Times were looking up.

And now, with them becoming adults in their own rights, it was time for us to let the kids live their lives. It was time for them to be the ones that took the spotlight. Joaquin and I are more than ready to take a backseat to let them be who they are meant to be. It’s their time to shine now.

——The END

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