Filed To Story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“In my opinion,” I started and cleared my throat as I looked at them all, “we need to keep showing the world that we aren’t out to get them. We need to be involved in as much as we can. Being outspoken and open will help, but we need to be a part of the school community as well. We have been so singular and secular for so long, but now it’s time to branch out.”
“That is a good idea.” The praise and smile from Reagan was not new. It came often when he particularly liked an idea that someone had. “This year is almost over, but we can be involved in more next year. I want to show the other students and the rest of the world, we aren’t going anywhere, and we aren’t a threat to anyone.”
“We can keep a look out for some groups that would be good to join, some things that will make it easier for us to settle the masses. It’s only on the campus, but it’s a start. And with the course that they are starting next year, the one where people get to learn more about us, it will help out a lot.
We will likely get a lot of students from that course joining us in whatever group we end up joining.” When Luka spoke these words, it almost sounded like he was thinking out loud rather than answering, but we all knew him well enough to know that he was actually talking to us. This was just a habit of his.
“Yes, that will work.”
A few moments passed as we all talked about what we would do to actively change the world that we were currently living in. We all needed to make sure that we were doing our part to make the future a brighter place.
“I don’t know what we will be doing in six months from now, a year from now, or even ten years from now, but I know that I vow to protect you all the best that I can. All of you and the rest of our people.” Reagan’s Alpha like behavior was showing, and I saw that the others felt it as well.
All of us, even the ones that were mixed with other species, were still a part of the original part that ruled these parts, The Red Springs Wolf Pack, and we would never abandon that part of who we were, no matter how much changed in the future.
“We will both make sure that all of our people are safe. Not just you, Reagan, I am right there with you.” Her eyes were blazing. The golden pools were actually shining and illuminating her face along with the flickering firelight. The color was a little different though, so I knew which light was which.
“Yeah, we will do it together.” Reagan held his hand in front of him and looked at the group around him. “We will all do it.” Rika was the first one to add her hand to his, that was when we all realized what was happening. I rose next and put my hand on Rika’s, after that the others all followed suit.
We made a vow then and there, to always remain faithful and loyal to this group, and to the pack and the people that we were determined to protect. It might have seemed childish, and perhaps it was, but it also made me, and all of the others, feel as if we were a little closer. A tighter bond than we had already had with each other.
A Life Without My Mate
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Westin
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Before I had left home, before I had told Joaquin that I just couldn’t be in Colorado Springs any longer, I had met my mate. Well, I already knew her. It was a little awkward for me really. I had been assigned to Princess Rika when she was sixteen, and watching her for two years before she turned eighteen.
Up to that point, I had never looked at Rika as if she were anything other than my employer’s daughter. I had protected her, and I had made sure that she was cared for, but she was old enough to be left independent at times, so it wasn’t that intense for me. Not at the start anyway.
It was on her eighteenth birthday that everything changed for me. It was on that day that I knew who she was to me. I knew what I needed to do and how things would end up. It was the way that it always happened, wasn’t it?
No. I was wrong. So very wrong. It wasn’t how all things ended up, not even in this type of situation.
I had known who and what Rika was to me when I walked into the castle that morning. I had smelled her scent all the way to the underground garage, and it only got stronger the closer that I had gotten to the Royal Tower. Hell, if I had been using my car rather than one of the loaner cars from the garage, I would have known what was going on the moment that I got in it to drive that morning.
When I stepped into the elevator, I had to stop my eyes from rolling into the back of my head, and for the cat ate the canary grin to stay off of my face. I was just really happy that I was alone in there. Still, there was always someone watching, until you got into the tower, that is. And the moment that the door opened into the tower itself, that scent intensified even more.
I followed the smell all the way to the hallway outside of Rika’s room. I was to wait there for her to come out. I was not allowed to go inside unless there was a valid reason. It was understandable under normal circumstances, even more so now. Still, she had to notice the smell the moment that she had woken this morning.
My scent was outside her door, and in the room next to it from when I slept at the castle. That hadn’t happened often, but it had happened from time to time.
I stood there, heart pounding and palms sweating, as I waited for her to come out of her room. I was her only guard today, so I didn’t have to worry about anyone else seeing us. And because there was an abundance of peace at the moment, I was usually guarding Prince Reagan as well.
They weren’t little kids that ran off or anything, so it wasn’t that hard for us to manage the two of them at the same time. Not to mention, they were still seniors in high school at the moment, so there wasn’t much they were going to get into during the day.
Finally, the moment came. I could sense Rika coming toward the door. It was about to happen. She was going to open the door, look at me in the eyes, and we would be bonded from that moment on. She was meant to be mine, fate had decided it. And now that she was eighteen, it was time for us both to realize it.
That didn’t happen though. There were no mutual feelings. There was no instant connection between us. There was nothing at all. Just a teenage girl that was excited about turning eighteen.
“Good morning, Westin.” She beamed at me, but it was no different than usual. “Come on, let’s go. I want to get downstairs.” She rushed past me and toward the elevator. I looked after her, awestruck. What had just happened? Sh..shouldn’t she have recognized me as her mate?
Shouldn’t she have realized what was happening?
I thought that maybe she was just a little too excited for her birthday. It would happen soon. Maybe later in the day or tomorrow. Definitely by the end of the week. So, when that snowy December first turned into the second, then the eighth, and then January first, and moving ever onward with no hint of Rika recognizing me as her mate, I started to worry about what was happening.
I had all the classic reactions to her. I was instantly connected to her. I was protective of her, more so than I had been before. I got easily jealous where she was concerned. I wanted to be with her, but I knew that I had to wait until she was able to recognize me.
I just didn’t get it. How was she able to go without knowing what I was to her? What was happening? Was this even possible? I mean, it had to be, because I was witnessing it first hand and all that, but was it actually something that other people have experienced? I needed to know.
I had to find out why I wasn’t connecting with my mate. Or rather, why she wasn’t connecting to me.
This went on for months. As Rika and her brother graduated from high school. While they squandered away their summer vacation. And as they started at the university in August. She never once looked at me as anything other than her guard. The entire situation was heartbreaking, it truly was.
I couldn’t tell her anything though. She needed to realize who I was on her own. If I stepped in and told her who I was to her, and what she was to me, it might scare her away. Not only that, but she might think that I was lying, because she couldn’t feel it on her own.
And then, if the feelings did come, she would question them because she wouldn’t know if it was her falling for me, or if it was my words manipulating her. I was stuck here and there was nothing I could do.
When she started at the university, it was like things had changed. She was a different person. She was interested in the other men on campus and seemed to be actively looking for a boyfriend. She wasn’t interested in her mate at the moment, just a boyfriend. She hadn’t dated once in high school, but now she was interested in finding someone to rectify that situation.
And to my dismay, Rika had found him at orientation. Or the person that she thought was going to fill that gap for the time being. Clovio, a foreign exchange student from Germany, was the object of Rika’s current fascination. And the object of my rage. He didn’t know how much I hated him. How much I wanted to hurt him.
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