Filed To Story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
Over several thousand years, Nehalennia watched her people as they grew and flourished, all the while saddened by the fact that her people were forced to hide who they were from the humans.
Nehalennia made certain all shifters had a future that would continue. Every shifter had a destined mate somewhere in the world. They would find their everlasting happiness eventually. There was never anything to fear as long as they stayed faithful to the Goddess.
A little more than two thousand years ago, the Goddess grew weary of her life here on earth. That was when she decided to ascend to the heavens. Or as some say, the moon, which is why she is known as the Moon Goddess. But she has remained the mother and goddess to all shifters in the world.
Now, for the legend of the Goddess Incarnate, that was something she told her followers before she left. The Sentinelle, named for their function of being sentinels on the lookout for the return of the goddess.
The original members of the organization were there with the Goddess before she ascended. They were there to receive her tutelage, her wisdoms for the future. Nehalennia told them that in one thousand years she would choose the most worthy woman among the shifters to be her reincarnation. She did not say with certainty that it would be a wolf shifter but since she loved her wolves above all others it was expected that she would choose a woman among them.
They were told that the reincarnation would be the queen of all shifters. It would be her job to rule, to lead her people to a prosperous future. It would fall upon the queen to help those born differently to be accepted by all.
She informed her followers that there would be a new queen a thousand years after the death of the reincarnation. This process would continue until the most worthy and suitable new Goddess Incarnate came along. Someone worthy of keeping the title and passing it down among her bloodline.
No one knew that the unworthy queen would not be able to have children. That was not something that Gabriel told me, but something I figured for myself. I didn’t know if I was correct in that line of thinking, but I felt it.
Could that have been why I was destined to lose my baby. Would that happen every time I conceived? Was I the fabled true queen and losing the baby was truly an accident? I don’t think I would ever know.
And perhaps I was wrong and the unworthy would still have children, but their children would inherit none of the Goddess Incarnate’s abilities or status. This was all just something that would remain in the air, unable to be answered, until the truth was revealed by the original goddess herself.
I spent the entire day trying to absorb as much of these legends and histories that I could. It was fascinating to say the least. But I was also a little more scared and nervous with each new bit of information that I learned. I knew that I was who they said I was, the Goddess had told me herself, but how could I ever live up to their expectations?
I continued to think about these things as Gabriel moved on to talk about the first Goddess Incarnate, Queen Ylsa. Ylsa had been a kind and courageous leader. Everyone loved the queen and any of the wolves would have done anything for her. But she, being a wolf shifter, focused all her efforts on the wolves and not the entire shifter world.
Ylsa was an amazing queen and Goddess Incarnate, by all accounts. But where she lacked was compassion for the world and not just the people she was born into. She needed to expand herself more.
Was that why I was chosen this time? A wolf who was raised knowing that there was something different about her heritage. A wolf who was raised as an outsider and didn’t have the same prejudices that a lot of others wolves seemed to have. I guess time would tell.
I was in a dazed stupor from all the information I was absorbing when I heard a commotion outside my room. Someone was yelling and several people seemed to be stomping through the halls leading to the chamber.
The surprised and shocked look on Gabriel’s face told me all that I needed to know. He didn’t know what was going on any more than I did. He stopped his lecture and I put down my pen at the same time.
The two of us stood, waiting for the interruption to reach us.
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Joaquin
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I knew that this trip was likely to be very hard for me. Not that it would be physically demanding, or that I would have a hard time doing things. No, I knew that I was not going to be at my wife’s side every step of the way.
It’s not that I am overly clingy and just want to stay with her. No, it’s because I wouldn’t be there to protect her all the time. I was going to have to let go. I was going to be forced to step aside and let others be there for her.
Was that what it meant for her to be the queen? Was she going to keep ascending higher and higher and eventually leave me behind? It would serve me right, in all honesty. I was head over heels, deeply in love with her. But I had been an asshole to her, I had nearly ruined everything before it ever started. It would be a fitting punishment from the powers that be to punish me by being left behind by her greatness.
But I wasn’t going to be left behind like that. I wasn’t going to roll over and just take it. I was going to fight my hardest and I’d be damned if I let anything keep me from following right at her heels.
The day after we arrived here, she was already set to begin her training. It was just learning the histories from Gabriel in our chamber. I think he was telling us men to go and investigate the place while he watches over his queen for us.
I’ll admit, when I first met Gabriel I didn’t really trust him. But as time went on he proved time and time again that he was an ally, and a true friend. He seems like he would honestly lay down his life for his queen. That was some sincere loyalty.
After we ate breakfast that morning, we walked as a group back to the Royal Quarters, or that’s what the few people I had already met in the Sentinelle called our room. I left my Little Bunny and Gabriel there. And after a quick goodbye kiss the eight of us left together.
Being around the warlocks was still weird for me. They were old, like really old. Crawford was the oldest of them at four hundred and sixty-six. But Eldrige was not much younger at four hundred fifty-nine. And apparently they had known each other their whole lives.
They at least looked a little old. Graying and wizened looking, but when I was with Gabriel I completely forgot about the fact that he was six hundred and ninety-two. And then there was Dietrich who was five hundred twenty-eight. And neither of them even looked older than early thirties.
Hell even Vincent was older than me. If it wasn’t for David and the twins, I would be the youngest man in this group. I’m not used to being around so many people that look so young but are so old. But the warlocks weren’t just old like the others. No, they acted old too. They spoke so old fashioned compared to Dietrich.
I just had to take the time to get used to it. But I still didn’t see me ever going for drinks with them easily. I would, don’t get me wrong. I am a nice guy after all. But it would still seem a little weird.
Whatever, I just had to get used to all the changes in our lives. That’s what I forced my wife to do back then, isn’t it. I didn’t even give her the chance to ease into things. What an ass I truly was.
We left the room, leaving my mate and Gabriel alone, that kind of gave me a jealous feeling. But I didn’t think that he was a bad guy at all, I knew things would be just fine. They’d better be.
For now though, It was time to meet everyone here. I would be damned if I was going to let any of these people around my wife if I hadn’t vetted them thoroughly first. Every single person in this place was going to be grilled by all of us. Let’s see them hide something from us.
We began on the floor where we all slept. I wanted to make sure those closest to us were trustworthy before anything else. And as I was the Alpha King, none of them were able to deny us. They would never obey me as much as they would Riviana, but they would still act deferential and follow my commands unless they contradicted the queens.
Dammit, this used to be a place run by alphas. Oh well, I was married to the queen, I was truly second in charge. I’d take second best if it meant she was number one. She was my number one anyway.
The abbey was quite large. There was a very tall square-like entry wing in the front that led to an even taller square center. From that center square there was a wing to the left and right that were curved on the end. There were also smaller, equally curved sections coming off the initial entry wing on either side sitting in front of the larger side wings. These smaller wings were mirrored in the back as well, one on each side. And it ended with a large wing in the back that mirrored the entry wing. The entire abbey was symmetrical at least. It’s construction was very well done but very obviously ancient.
The light colored stone walls on the outside were just as present on the inside. There wasn’t a single stone that looked to be crumbling and the building looked far from run down. It was amazing. Even more so because it had electricity and running water. I would have forbidden this trip if Gabriel hadn’t assured us that they were at least that far into the modern age.
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