Filed To Story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
About three months into the time that we were in Wales, the little pissant got the nerve to come up to me and engage me in a conversation.
“Uhm, M..Mr. Westin?” He was a lot more polite than the last time that I had spoken to him.
“What?” I said, but there was no bite to the word. I was losing my anger a little more each day.
“I..I know that you are planning to get revenge on me, and I know that you have every right to do so, after I had hurt Rika like that. I am sorry, I can’t tell you how sorry I am, but I was wondering if you could get it over with. I, uhm, I am finding it hard to focus on my work as I wait for the blow to come.”
“So, you admit that you did wrong by her?” I glared at him, a little of that anger coming back.
“I do, and I want to make amends. I lied to her, and I am sorry. I want to explain to her that I had no choice. They had killed my cousins, if I had defied them, I would have died as well. None of us were safe. Still, what I did was wrong, even if I was forced to do it.
I want her to know that I was in the wrong, and that she did nothing wrong at all.”
“Hahh.” I sighed at his words. Dammit! This little shithead was making it hard for me to hate him. “She wasn’t the most innocent in it all either.” I closed the book that I had been reading when he walked over to me. “She wanted to branch out so much that she latched onto you. I think it was a combination of her naivet茅 and the fear you harbored from your family.
It created this mess that none of us were able to get out of.”
“A..are you sure?” He narrowed his eyes at me. “Sh..she is the Princess, so I didn’t think that you would say something like that.”
“I am seeing things a little more clearly than I used to.” This was true as well. I was taking a step back and able to see all of what happened. How I had actually treated Rika, possessive and angry when she wouldn’t acknowledge me, how Rika had rebelled and latched onto Clovio, and how this boy here was just that, a boy. He was frightened and did what he was told to do.
Now we had all changed, and I was sure that even Rika had grown up in this time already.
“S..so you’re not going to get me?” He tilted his head in confusion.
“I got you already.” I laughed. “You’ve been scared out of your mind this whole time. That was it. I can’t hurt you, you aren’t actually guilty of anything.” He jumped at my laughed words, but then a smile settled over his face.
“Y..you really are different than I expected.”
“You as well, kid. You as well.” I shook my head and went back to my book.
For the rest of the time that we were in Wales, I didn’t treat the little pissant like I hated him. I didn’t act like his friend either, but it was more of an amicable acquaintanceship. We got our work done at least.
Some of that work that we needed to do included things like settling the peace when an announcement was made in December. Queen Riviana and King Joaquin had revealed us to the world. I had not been expecting that before the announcement was made to our people just a little while beforehand.
There had been some riots and protests that followed the announcement, but thankfully, there wasn’t all that much that had happened in the area. We kept the peace and made sure things were going smoothly.
Mostly, I was just waiting for the time that I was able to go back. I had told Joaquin that I needed to be gone for a certain amount of time, so he told me that I was to leave for a year. That would put it into September when I finally made it home to see if Rika was able to recognize me as her mate now. It was something that I was eagerly counting down to, only six more months to go.
Paying for My Sins
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Clovio
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After the battle at the castle, where the leaders of our family had been captured or killed, Warrick and I were sent away from the city. We were given a second chance by the people that we had gone there to cause problems for, and I didn’t know why they were being so nice to us. We were part of the problem, but they were our solution.
I was sent to live in Wales, to train with the wolves that lived there with the Alpha, Cadwal. This was the largest of the three packs that made up the entire country of Wales, and they were going to teach me how to live around and work with them. The end goal was meant to be me living in and working in Colorado Springs.
I would return to school at some point, and I would pay my debts to the Gray family. I would make sure that they never had to worry about my loyalties ever again.
Warrick, my cousin and best friend, was in England, learning the same things from the Alpha named Nigel. I couldn’t wait until I saw him again, to see if he had changed and how it was going. I also knew he was more eager to get back home to Colorado Springs than I was. He had actually mated with, a bond that was eternal and lasted a lifetime, Alyssa Asher-Conrad.
They were meant to be together, and I wanted it to work out for them.
I mostly wanted to apologize to Rika, I had hurt her so bad, even though that was not my intention. She was a sweet girl, true, kind and beautiful, and I was a monster for treating her the way that I did.
And to make matters worse, for me at least, King Joaquin had sent Rika’s guard here to watch me while I trained with the others. His name was Westin, and he hated me. He glared at me constantly. He openly said that he was going to torture me. And I knew that he felt like I had wronged Rika personally.
Well, I guess I had. Not saying I meant to do it, but I guess I had. I wanted to talk to him, to work things out with him, but I was too scared to talk to him. Instead, I was trying to talk to the others that were here. They were wolves, and the guard Westin was a feline. I didn’t know what breed, but I knew that he was a large cat that could overpower one of these wolves easily.
“Are you seriously still worrying about him?” Drouin, one of the Welsh wolves, laughed at me as I tensed in fear. Westin had just walked out of the Alpha’s house with a large bow and a quiver of arrows.
“Can you blame me? He has a weapon right now.” I kept a wary eye on the other man as he walked away from me and Drouin, into the forest and off to do whatever it is that he needed or wanted to do.
“You have been here for two months, and he hasn’t done anything yet. I think that you are safe.” Drouin’s laugh was filled with mirth as he watched my fear.
“Yeah, but maybe he is just letting me think that, and he will wait until I am no longer on guard before he comes after me.”
“I think you need to get over it, kid.” He laughed again. I often made Drouin and the others laugh as they saw how scared I was of Westin.
“I want to get over it, but I know that I messed up.”
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