Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“Ugh! Too much sappiness for me.” Leah, my overly dramatic niece, sounded like she was annoyed at them.
“We’re all here now, can we know what is happening?” Lila asked with a strained voice.
“I will take you inside now.” I heard Carter say to the others. I lifted my eyes for a moment and looked at Joaquin. He was grinning. Knowing that this was a bit of a dirty trick, but we had a busy day, and most of these people needed to be here for all of the meetings anyway. So, this was just an expedient thing to do. Hmm. I would need to open doors for Aunt Glory, Trevor, and Athair m貌r as well. They needed to be here later, and to see the baby.
The door to the living room opened quickly. The others were probably trying to rush past Carter to see what was going on. The group surged into and looked around the room to find me. I saw that my mom was the one in the lead. She was always the type to worry about me, so I wasn’t surprised about this, not in the least.
“Riviana, what is wrong? What hap-.” She stopped in midsentence, seeing the baby that was resting in my arms. She hesitated for less than half of a second before she continued. “EEEEEEEEEEEE!” She squealed in one long and high-pitched tone. The sound made the baby sleeping in my arms begin to stir, but she didn’t cry yet. She was just getting close to it.
“Shh.” I grinned and shushed her with a laugh. “You will wake her up.”
“Riviana Faith Cervantes Gray! Why are you here and not in the hospital?!” My mom reprimanded me.
“Because she was born here.” I told her calmly. “She didn’t even want to wait for Griffin to get here.”
“So, Griffin didn’t deliver her?” Noah asked, looking at the baby in my arms with a tender smile. He was a true family man. He loved all of his kids and his nieces and nephews.
“No, Griffin wasn’t here yet.” Joaquin told him calmly. “I delivered her for Riviana.”
“HAHAHAHA!” Several of our family members laughed when they heard Joaquin’s words.
“What the hell?” Joaquin glared specifically at Noah as he laughed at him.
“Come on, Joaquin. You expect us to believe that you, the man that tried to leave the room repeatedly when Reagan and Rika were born, and the man that almost passed out when the quads were born, delivered a baby? That is just not plausible. Someone else had to have done it.”
“Riviana, please clear this up for me.” Joaquin crossed his arms over his chest and glared at one of his best friends and beta.
“He is telling the truth.” I told them all with a smile on my face. “Joaquin and I had been getting ready for bed, I wanted to take a lukewarm bath to help me relax, but I started to feel odd. As soon as I got out of the tub, my water broke. Things progressed very quickly from there. Reeselynn truly didn’t want to wait. She was ready to make her debut, and the only other person there was Joaquin. He called Griffin, who was on his way, but Joaquin was the one that had to deliver the baby. He did a good job too. He stayed calm and took care of everything that he needed to. It went really well.” I smiled at Joaquin to show him how proud that I was of him.
“Wow, Joaquin, I am impressed.” Noah clapped him on the back. “And congrats.” He was smiling now. No one, thankfully, was blaming any of us for the prank that we played on them about the emergency that was supposed to be taking place.
Mom, the first to notice the baby, asked if she could hold her newest grandbaby. Having no reason to say no, aside from wanting to feel her comforting weight in my arms a little longer, I handed over the small, swaddled little bundle.
“Oh, look at her.” Mom cooed as she sat next to me. Dad took the seat next to her, and Olivia knelt on the floor in front of her.
“She is so pretty.” My little sister cooed as well while Ivy sat next to her on the floor and stroked her cheek softly.
“Do you know who she looks like to me?” Dad said while the others who hadn’t seen her face closely took their seats around the room.
“Who?” Carter asked, having only glanced at her a few times so far.
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“My sister, Lily. She makes me think of her so much. She had a reddish tint to her brown hair as well.”
“Yes, but there was nothing golden about her hair. She was a reddish brown from birth.” Grandfather said as he stepped up behind the sofa. He was looking down into the little baby’s face and I could see the tears in his eyes. “I think she gets the golden from you, sweetheart.” He looked up at Lila. “That is the element to your hair that we all adore so much.”
“So, she is a mixture of both of our mothers?” Joaquin asked as he pulled me closer to his side.
“She seems to be.” Grandfather almost sobbed as he spoke. “Eve, can I hold her?”
“Of course.” She agreed and let my grandfather hold his great granddaughter without hesitation.
Grandfather moved to sit in a chair that was to the side of the couch that I was sitting on. He hadn’t taken his eyes off of the baby since Mom had handed her to him. He was smiling and there were tears slowly streaming down his face.
“She looks so much like Lily did the day that she was born. The same nose, the same little cheeks, the same shape to her lips. I will never forget that day. I can’t believe how closely she resembles your mother, Riviana. It’s so uncanny, but also wonderful. She is a beautiful baby.”
“I know she is, Grandfather.” I smiled at him and walked over to hug him. I knew that he had missed my mother for many years now, and this must be an exceptionally hard moment for him to deal with.
The rest of the family took their turns with the baby, even Ivy and Oliva. They all wanted to see her face and look at how much she resembled her biological grandmother. They all seemed to be thoroughly captured by the little girl immediately. And soon enough, when the kids came down for the day, we were all together as a family.
Joaquin and I had a lot to do in the morning and afternoon, but we were going to eat breakfast with everyone before we left. Then, when it was time for the meeting to start, Mom and Lila were going to watch the baby while we went to one of the larger conference rooms. My office was just not big enough for all the people that we were going to be having with us today. This was a major talk that we needed to have, so I was inviting everyone to join us.
Of course, this meant that I was going to need to make a few more doors. And in my already exhausted state, that might be a little difficult. Oh well, I would manage. There was a lot that a Queen like me needed to do, and simply being tired wasn’t an excuse for us to not do what I needed to. Doors were easy, and there weren’t going to be too many more doors. Just a couple.
At least I would have the delicious food from the breakfast that Abigail made for me to give me some energy. She had made a special meal that was filled with lots of protein to give me strength and keep my body running. I loved her for that, she was always taking care of me and the others.
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Vincent
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Well, that had been an eventful night. Who would have thought that Riviana would go to her room and almost immediately have the baby? I mean, when Griffin and Lana came running into the tower and storming toward the stairs, I almost had a heart attack. I thought that Joaquin had called him because something was wrong. Never in my wildest dreams would I think that Riviana had had the baby.