Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“Thank you.”
“No problem.” Shane nodded. “By the way, I think Joaquin’s head just exploded.” He was almost right. His face was just really red.
“Calm down, sweetheart. I am just feeding our daughter. It’s all perfectly natural.”
“I know that it is.” He sighed. “But there are people here that do not need to see your breasts.”
“You’re just too territorial.” I laughed at him. “Everyone is fine except for you. Now, let’s get back to the meeting. Where were we?”
“Those caves that that man there was talking about.” Talia said as she pulled another chair closer and sat next to me.
“Dolan, Kirk, this is my daughter, Talia. She is almost sixteen, a senior in high school, and the future Goddess of the underworld.”
“Th..th..the underworld?” Kirk really liked to stammer a lot, didn’t he? This was a little funny, but it made him kind of cute in a way.
“Yes, I was chosen to be the replacement when I was four.”
“S..so you will be the new Satan? Lucifer? Beelzebub? Hades?”
“You are listing multiple people there. I will take over for all the current Gods of the underworld when I am older.” Talia explained to the stuttering Kirk.
“Multiple? Y..you know these people?” It seemed like he still couldn’t believe this.
“Yes. Hades, Lucifer, Satan, they are some of my closest friends and mentors.”
“This is unbelievable.” Dolan laughed sardonically. It was a way to break the tension in the room, and we were all thankful for it.
I had a feeling that if things kept on going the way that they were, Kirk was going to end up with a bit of a headache, and a complex of some sort.
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Riviana
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The meeting was getting off topic. With all the talk about Talia and the Gods of The Underworld, and me feeding Reeselynn, we had strayed a little too far from where we were supposed to be at the moment. I knew that I needed to bring us all back to the topic at hand though, we had a lot to do, a lot to discuss, and not a lot of time to figure all of this out.
“Dolan?” I called out to him, knowing where it was that I wanted to start with this next part of the conversation.
“Yes, Queen Riviana?” He was speaking to me respectfully, like he was a part of my people as well. I didn’t know if it was out of respect or fear though, and I don’t really know if I will ever find out.
“You said you know where these caves are, the ones that Orson might have gone to. Could you give me coordinates, or an accurate description as to where they are? I can open a door and have someone go there to investigate it.”
“I can tell you, but I don’t know if that is a good idea. The caves are rigged with booby traps. I don’t even know where all of them are. I don’t want someone going and getting hurt.” He looked wary and on edge. I could tell that he was telling the truth though, so I had no reason not to heed the warning that he was giving me.
“That is unfortunate.” I rocked the baby in my arms a little as I fed her. “Do you have any other suggestions?” I asked, but the answer didn’t come from Dolan. Instead, it came from Talia who was sitting next to me at the head of the table.
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“I can go.” Her words were met with an immediate no from three of the people that were in the room.
“Hell no!” Joaquin snarled.
“I forbid it.” Alexio’s voice was nearly as deep as Joaquin’s when he growled those words.
“Talia, you cannot do that. It’s too dangerous.” The more soft spoken Rudy said in as calm of a voice as he could manage in his panic.
“I am not talking about taking a magical door there. You’re all being so ridiculous. I have been working with Mr. Amadeus. I have practiced more with my soul projection since last year. I can send my soul there, look around and see what is going on. Even if the place was crawling with DOE soldiers, they wouldn’t know that I was there at all.”
“Oh.” Alexio was the first to say anything after what Talia said. I think part of that had been the reprimand she had given him, though it hadn’t appeared as a reprimand to most of the people present. “As long as you are not planning to go there physically, I have no issue. I am your guard, Talia, and I cannot allow you to put yourself into such a dangerous position.”
“Does the future Goddess of the underworld really need a bodyguard?” Kirk asked, almost taking us off topic again.
“She does when he is a Demon that will be looking after her in The Underworld.” I spoke matter-of-factly and saw the recognition in the man’s eyes.
“A..a..a..a D..D..D..Demon?”
“The Demons are nothing like how Hollywood and literature make them out to be. They are not evil. They are more like the keepers of The Underworld. The true Demons were actually an ancient species of people that were akin to the Gods.” Talia started to explain to him, but we didn’t have the time for this right now.
“Give him a history lesson later, Talia. We have too much work to do at the moment.”
“OK.” She dropped the subject, but I could tell that Kirk was hanging on her every word. He was definitely more than a little interested in our people. Hopefully, it stayed positive as time went on.
Sensing that Reeselynn was getting closer to being done with her feeding, I shifted her to my other side, taking the blanket with her as I did. I liked to feed evenly, so that I didn’t feel lopsided. This was how I had done things when Talia was a baby. After she was repositioned, I moved on. It had only been a second or two, so it hadn’t delayed the conversation at all.