Filed To Story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“Zip it.” I said again, glaring at him playfully. He smiled and closed his mouth. “A lot happened to me. Yes, I am in pain, a lot of pain. But you know what Joaquin, I will heal. And when I heal I will be a stronger person for this because there are not many people out there who can say they have survived what I did. And not only did I come out of it alive, I am not mentally broken like they tried to do to me. I came out of that room a wolf. A wolf unlike almost any other wolf ever. So, yeah that might make me a freak to some-.”
“You’re not a freak.”
“Thanks for that, but shut up and listen a little longer.”
“Like I said, that might make me a freak to some, but to others, it makes me more powerful. So, I guess it’s all in how I look at it. Yes, it was a horrible ordeal and a really bad situation that I truly want to forget. But I’m not going to forget it, and I’m not going to regret that time for my entire life, because I don’t know if I would be who I was meant to be without my time there.”
“Are you saying that you never would have awakened your wolf if it wasn’t for them?”
“If it wasn’t for them attacking you.” I corrected him.
“What are you saying?” He didn’t seem to follow that.
“I only changed when they attacked you Joaquin. I was there with them for two days. Two days of physical and mental torture didn’t awaken my wolf or my magic. What finished the awakening, what did the job, was them attacking you. I didn’t want them touching you, hurting you, like they had hurt me. Or worse, I didn’t want them killing you, even if it meant I had to die.”
“Riviana.” I heard both Happiness and sorrow in his voice and saw a strange look in his eyes. He was obviously touched by my words.
“I love you Joaquin, and I have for a long time now.”
“I love you too, Riviana, and I’m sorry I ever made you think otherwise. I loved you the moment I first smelled your scent, and I loved you more the first time I saw you. You smell sweet and delicious like an apple pie, but also dangerous like it’s being chased by a thunderstorm. You drive me crazy.”
I leaned forward and pressed my lips to his gently. A soft kiss that didn’t go too far. I could tell he wanted more, but my body just wasn’t ready.
“You drive me crazy too, but not always in a good way.” I joked as I rested my head on his left shoulder, my eyes crinkled in laughter. He was laughing with me, he seemed to understand exactly what I meant.
That was when I noticed something I had never seen before. And considering I had seen almost every part of this man naked, I would have noticed a giant black mate mark on his neck.
“Joaquin, when did you get this?” I was confused as I looked at it. It didn’t look like any pack crest I had ever seen before so it didn’t make any sense to me.
“It started to show up after Saturday night.” He pulled away from me and grinned. “After we marked each other.”
“Marked each other?” My eyes popped. “You’re saying I marked you? How?” Joaquin shrugged his shoulders with a huge smile on his face.
“I don’t know Little Bunny, but when you bit me back when we were together that night, when the flow of power was coursing through us both at the same time, I think it counted as a second mating, a true mating.”
“Has something like this ever happened before?” I was awestruck as I stared at the mark, my fingers brushing over it. He shivered slightly when my fingers moved gently across the mark.
His mark, unlike mine, was that of a jet black wolf crouching protectively in front of a ghostly pale woman who seemed to be radiating light, a full moon could be seen partially obscured by wispy clouds in the image as well. It was beautiful. And it was surrounded with the three leaf marks that were like the one on the floor of the cellar.
“This symbol again.” I said running my fingers along the chain of three leaf designs.
“Are you talking about the special symbol?” He was looking at me like I should have known.
“The what? There’s a symbol with my name?”
“You didn’t know?” I shook my head to answer him. “Well, the Riviana means triad or group of three. They also use it in the church for religious reasons, but it predates those days.”
“I never knew that.” I continued to trace the chain of special symbols around his mark, making him shudder.
“Your marks changed too, you know.” I stopped moving my hand along his mark and looked at him.
“What?”
“Yeah, they match what was on your wolf.”
“But, what was on my wolf?” I asked him yet I was afraid to hear the answer.
“You have six marks in all. The center mark is an altered pack crest. It no longer has just a wolf leaping over the moon.”
“What does it have now?” I asked, my voice full of worry.
“There is a pack of wolves leaping in front of the moon and a beautiful woman descending from the top of it.”
“Why would it change?” I was concerned about this more than he seemed to be.
“I don’t know, perhaps because you’re the Luna.”
“I wonder.”
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Riviana
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I was deep in thought for a moment until Joaquin dragged my attention back to the bath by running his hands through my hair.
“What are you doing?” I asked him, surprised.
“Finishing your bath. This new position of yours will make it a lot easier. I don’t know why I didn’t think of it first.” He grinned as he continued gently working his hands through my hair and across my scalp. I could feel the shampoo lathering between his hands and my head. The feeling of his fingers was like a gentle massage that I didn’t want to stop.
I felt him moving his hands lower and lower once he was done washing my hair. His hands tickled lower until they went below my shoulders, below the surface of the water. Down they went to the small of my back. He stopped there, gripping me lightly in the water.
“Do you want me to rinse your hair for you?” He had a wicked look in his eyes as he asked the question.
“Normally, I wash my hair in a shower, the few times I do so in a tub, I lean back and rinse my hair.”
“How do you want to do it today?” I thought about that for a moment, it would be awkward with him in the tub as well, but I had way more than enough room to accomplish the task.
“I’ll just lay back I guess.” I went to move off his lap but he held me in place.
“I was hoping you’d say that. Which way, toward me or away?” He was giving me a triumphant smile, as if he had just won something.
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