Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
After a few moments, I heard the sound of laughter drifting toward me and I realized that my sister was laughing at me. She was grinning and trying to hide it, but I knew that she was laughing at me like I had done something funny.
“What? What is it?” I glared at her, not liking that she was laughing at me.
“I was just thinking about something.” Her eyes were sparkling at me with all the laughter and mirth that was pulsing off of her in waves.
“Well, what was it? Don’t leave me hanging here.”
“Well, Dad was twenty-five when he met Mom. He had to wait for her to be older enough. What if you have to wait another six years as well.” She laughed again, almost hysterically this time. “What if your mate is only twelve right now? What if you have to grow older and older until she is an adult. Or better yet, we’re immortal, what if she isn’t born yet. What if she won’t be born for another hundred years.” She was clearly getting a kick out of this.
“I swear to the goddess, Rika, if that happens, I will personally make your life a living hell.” She laughed again. “And don’t think that you’re immune here. What if you need to wait that long as well. What if your mate is just a baby right now and you need to wait until you’re a cougar before you meet him.”
“Eww! Gross! I don’t want a mate that is younger than me.”
“Fine. What if he is older than you? What if you haven’t met him yet because he is some ancient warlock that is like seven hundred and you have to meet him when you leave home?”
“Stop it, that’s even worse. I don’t want a mate that much older than me either. It’s just plain wrong. I want one more my age. Like two or three years older than me at most. I don’t want to be a child to him. And I don’t want to be a granny to him either. Stop it Reagan, that is just mean.”
“You started it.” I laughed and she joined in.
“Yeah, I know.”
The conversation died down a little after that. We just sat there and watched the fountain in silence for a little while as the minutes passed. When it was about five in the afternoon, we got to our feet and went home. We had another lesson at the castle, another thing to keep us busy. That was why we had needed these few moments of peace sitting here in the middle of the crowded campus. We had needed time to pretend like the world wasn’t fucked up and everything was going to be just fine. Then it was back to busy once more.
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Riviana
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The meeting with the president had gone better than I thought that it would. She was willing to work with us on this issue, and that was the first step. After that meeting, with the president’s full support, the various senators and congressmen worked with Joaquin and I to find out what it was that we needed to have in these laws and bills that we were trying to get passed.
There were meetings with the guards, with all the family that we consulted on a regular basis, the members of the council that we had formed long ago, and even with the kids that were of age. We had spoken with them about what they wanted in the future. They were younger than us, but they were still part of this situation. They were our legacy on the world after all. And it was just as important that we take their thoughts and feelings into consideration.
The bills were beginning to take shape over the week following the meeting with the president. They were focusing on acknowledging people as anyone that was human in appearance more often than not, that walked, talked, and functioned with a human capacity, as well as other things. We were working on making it so that places of employment couldn’t deny someone because of their species, that it was illegal to ask for someone’s species or require that they carry identification with them that identified their species.
In truth, while we were working on these things for our people, we started to weave some things about different races in there as well. There were still people that thought that immigrants needed to carry identification cards on them and things like that. So why not eliminate that while we were at it.
Another thing that happened during the week that we were working on the laws and bills that we were trying to make, was that the election was made official. And President Maddock had officially been reelected. That worked in our favor, because we didn’t need to worry about another president stepping in after we had gotten this far.
Petrenko and Westmont were working with us and other allied nations in Europe to get their bills started, but we still needed to meet with the heads of their countries before things would move forward. The bills there were right along the lines as the ones in the US.
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Prince Hishahito and Prime Minister of Singapore, Zul Lee Wong, who was a Merman, were spearheading the Asian countries on our behalf. With their assistance, we would hopefully be able to get a lot of work done in the next couple of weeks. It was already almost halfway through November, and I wanted to make sure that we stayed ahead of the NSA.
Of course, we also had Darrol monitoring the information that the NSA was getting all the time. And when he wasn’t working on that, he was teaching Reagan to do the work himself. From what I had been told recently, Reagan was quite the genius when it came to computers. And he was learning the techniques of this master hacker with ease.
In a way, I was extremely proud of my son and the accomplishments that he was achieving. However, my son was becoming a hacker and that could get him in trouble with the law if he wasn’t careful. So, on top of being proud of how smart and accomplished he already was, I was worried about him. You know, just another day in the life of a mom. There was so much that was going on here that I didn’t know what to think or do half the time. At least when it came to him and Rika.
Rika had taken quite the hands-on management position. She had gotten Alyssa, Alexandria, Ilana, and Ashley together to work with her and under her guidance they had maintained quite a complex system. They were able to run smoothly as if they had been working in an office or something like that for a decade. I was very proud of the work that they were managing day in and day out. Rika was even working with the politicians as if it was nothing at all. She was quite skilled when it came to being a diplomat.
With how wonderfully that everything seemed to be going, I knew that we were just about ready to take the next step. I would take basic copies of the bill that we were submitting to the House soon. I would show these bills to the leaders of countries that we either had no or small amounts of political influence in. I would explain to them what we needed and urge them to join us.
This next week or so was going to be busy, and most of it was going to happen very early in the morning or late at night. Because the countries would all be in different time zones than us, and we needed to visit with a lot of them. There were meetings that were officially scheduled, but I didn’t think that it would get back to the NSA. Not unless they were monitoring every nation in the world for our names appearing on the guest lists. And it wasn’t like we were going to be flying there, so there would be no records of travel.
Now, the next thing that we needed to do, with the political discussions coming up, was to tell the kids that we were going to be coming and going for the next week or two until we were able to accomplish our tasks. We would do as many of them while they were at school or sleeping as we could, but it wouldn’t be possible to do them all like that. And we might be gone in the morning or the evening sometimes, but we would always be coming home the same night.
“Mom?” Reagan called out to me while I was thinking about these things during dinner. “MOM!?” He raised his voice because I was so lost in thought that I hadn’t heard him or responded. I don’t even know how many times that he called me, or what they had all been talking about.
“Are you OK, sweetheart?” Joaquin asked me as I shook my head and came back to my senses.
“Yeah, I am fine. I am so sorry everyone. I was just so lost in thought that I didn’t pay attention to my surroundings. I shouldn’t do that though. I need to be more present when I’m here with you guys.” I looked at the kids as they stared at me. They looked concerned, like they thought that something was wrong.
“What is the matter, Mom?” Talia asked, breaking into the subject that I knew all seven of the kids were thinking about.
“I was just thinking. It’s nothing bad, but I guess that I have been so busy lately that I am also tired. And when I started to think I just spaced out.”
“What were you thinking about, Momma?” Zander asked in a weak voice. I knew that he was scared about Joaquin and I leaving again.
“Well.” I tried not to worry him with my tone, but I was just about to confirm his fears. “Daddy and I need to go and talk to the people around the world. We won’t be staying away though. We are going to be visiting these people and coming back every day. We might leave early in the morning, or we might need to go at night. The other countries are all at different times than us, but I promise you that we will be home every day. You will see us every single day. I promise you that, Zander. I promise all of you that.” I looked at all the kids in turn, telling them that I meant what I was saying, and that Joaquin and I were not going to leave them again. Not like we had before. We were going to be here for them to see at some point during each day.
“Alright.” Zachary nodded. “I believe you.”
“We know that you have work to do, Mommy. And we won’t stop you.” Zayden’s tone was a little sad, but he kept his face even and calm.