Filed To Story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
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Riviana **
I felt my strength leave me and my whole body just crumpled to the floor. I couldn’t move a muscle. I couldn’t talk, I couldn’t turn my head. I couldn’t open my eyes. I was extremely tired, and exhausted to the point of passing out, but I still couldn’t fall asleep either.
I lay there, unable to move, unable to call for help. I’m not certain how long I was laying there. In the darkness it felt like forever. I had a feeling this was like the lost state that Lila had been in. How she managed to survive this, to keep her sanity during something like this for seven years I would never know.
After what felt like hours I heard the door click open.
‘Joaquin!’ I screamed inside my head. ‘Joaquin, help me.’ But of course no words could be heard.
I could sense where he was, I could feel the changes in the room’s atmosphere as he moved. He was walking toward the closet to hang up his jacket, he should be able to see me soon.
I heard him gasp, his sharp intake of breath told me he had finally seen me.
“Riviana?” His voice was filled with worry, fear, and pain then I heard his pounding footsteps as he ran to me. I felt his hands as he grabbed me, gripping lightly so as not to hurt me at all. He turned me over so that I was laying against him. “Riviana, baby, what’s wrong? What happened?” He sounded close to tears as he hugged me tightly.
Another voice entered my consciousness, a very familiar one.
“Joaquin? Is everything ok?” Vincent was outside the door and his voice was full of concern. I had almost forgotten that Heather was in that room with the kids and it was only natural that Vincent would come back here and to that room with his family.
“Get in here, and turn the light on.” Joaquin instructed him.
“Yes, Sir.”
I heard the door click open and the sound of the light switch flipping, but I couldn’t sense the light at all. Usually if you’re just laying in a room with your eyes closed you can still see the brightness of the light trying to push through your eyelids, lightening the edges slightly. But not this time, there was no change in what I was seeing. I was trapped in the darkness, and for some reason seeing this, or not seeing this, caused my stress level to rise.
“Riviana?” Vincent and Heather exclaimed at nearly the same time.
“Sir, what happened?” Vincent sounded scared and nervous. He was the captain of my guard and here I was probably looking dead.
‘I’M ALIVE, GET SOMEONE TO HELP ME!’ I screamed at them inside my mind.
“I don’t know, I found her on the floor like this. Call Griffin and get Noah, I want you two to search the area, tell me if anyone was outside the house tonight.” Joaquin’s panicked voice was not helping my stressed feelings at all.
“Understood.” Vincent Answered.
“Is she alright?” I heard Heather ask after a moment or two.
‘You tell me, do I look alright.’ My snarky attitude that I usually worked so hard to hide from everyone, except Joaquin, was coming out in full force inside my mind.
“What all happened tonight Heather? I want to know everything.”
“You mean after we got here, right?”
‘No Heather, he wants to know everything that happened when I was alone without him or you.’ I sneered, then immediately regretted it. I knew they couldn’t hear me but Heather still didn’t deserve that. I was just angry about my situation.
“After the children were settled into the room across the hall with Lila, the rest of us came here and talked. Riviana told us about Ella, I admit that had scared me a lot. Riviana said she felt weak and useless, but she isn’t. That would just be insane, she’s so strong.”
‘I am weak. I am useless. Just look at me. Look at what has happened to me. I’m pathetic. How can I be a goddess? How can I be a queen? I can’t lead or guide anyone.
“What else happened?” Joaquin growled slightly when he asked.
“Well, Juniper made her feel better, then there was this bright white light and a strange voice that said ‘gift granted’. The light scared me, and on top of everything else I was nearing a breakdown. But then Juniper soothed me with words and a warm feeling washed over me.”
‘That’s right, she got an ability, and just doing that has nearly killed me.’
“What was the light?” I seriously couldn’t believe he was focussing on that, was it important right now?
“Well.” Heather sounded scared as she spoke. “Riviana said it was Juniper being granted a new power or ability. That Juniper now has like a mental healing ability.”
“Granted an ability?”
‘Yes my Deputy Dawg, your wife used her Goddess powers and is now as good as gone forever. Do you have to be Mr. Inquisitive like you’re Mr. Peabody or something, can’t you just try to save me like Krypto instead. Pick which doggie character is best for this situation.”
“Thank you Heather, you can go now.”
‘Seriously, have you figured it out now, Einstein. And yes you dunce, that’s a fictional mutt too.’
After I heard the door close and knew that Heather was gone, I felt Joaquin stand with me in his arms. He stood up smoothly, if it hadn’t been for the shifting of his body I never would have known he had stood up. His movements were slow and smooth, like he was trying to be extremely gentle with me.
Joaquin gently laid me on the bed, and just as I felt his arms sliding out from under me I heard his phone ringing. He answered it in a hurry.
“Are you on your way?”
‘Wow! Not even a hello for him huh Rover.’
“I don’t know, I came into the room and found her collapsed on the floor.”
‘Oh, great, a one sided conversation where I’m missing the other half.’
“Not that I know of. And I had the house under surveillance so I do not think that anyone made it close enough to get at her.”
‘If you think someone attacked me then you’re wrong.’ I snapped.
“She’d better, I can’t lose her.” I heard his voice crack as he spoke.
‘I don’t want to lose you either Joaquin, you adorable little mutt.’
After he ended his call with Griffin he started pacing back and forth. To the bed and off into another direction, then back to sink onto the bed again and again. His sighs and exasperated sounds were getting on my nerves.
“Hang in there sweetheart. Griffin is on his way.” He whispered as he knelt on the side of the bed next to me. He leaned forward and kissed my cheek softly. “Please, please wake up. I need you. I can’t live without you. You may have just become the Queen of our world, but to me, you’ve always been my Queen, my Goddess, and without you my life in nothing.”
‘Come on Joaquin, you’re making it hard for me to be grumpy that I’m in this state. I never get to hear you be this honest with your feelings. I love you so much Joaquin, I want to be with you forever.’
He leaned over and held me in his arms, hugging me close to his chest. It felt like he was rubbing his hands along my arms. When he pulled away from the hug he gently touched my hands and my face, it was like he was trying to remember exactly how I felt.
“Come back to me and wake up baby, please.”
‘I want to, Joaquin. I really want to wake up right now.’
I felt his lips press against mine ever so lightly, just a feather’s touch of a kiss. As soon as the kiss ended I heard the door bang open and two sets of hurried footsteps nearly running into the room.
“Any changes?” I heard Griffin’s panicked, slightly breathless voice.
“No, she hasn’t woken, moved, or even made a sound.” Panic filled Joaquin’s voice.
“Let me examine her.” Griffin was right beside Joaquin now and I could tell he was leaning over me.
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