Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
We spent hours pouring over the text. Learning, studying, researching. That was what my day consisted of. It was boring, that was for sure, but the information I gathered was actually pretty interesting.
I didn’t mind studying and learning like this, but I was eager to finally get to physical the training. But, I guess we all must start with academic lessons first. This was truly where all things started.
Just when I was starting to get a headache from all the reading and studying, Joaquin and Vincent came into the study room near the library that we were in. The room was really too bland, it only had two wooden tables with four chairs each, nothing else. I guess it was really only for studying.
“Just about done?” Joaquin smiled at me, clearly pleased with himself after a hard day of training.
“Hmm.” I made a noncommittal noise as my head was really starting to hurt from all the small writing I had been staring at.
“King Joaquin, there is one thing that we would like your help with.” Sebastian stood as soon as they had come into the room and he once again bowed just like he did before.
“Help with what?” Joaquin looked confused at his words.
“Ah, well-.” He started before Gabriel cut him off.
“Allow me to explain.” He grinned, hoping to bridge the gap between the two groups of men as I just sat there and massaged my temples.
“Ok.” Joaquin encouraged him to go on.
“We would like to examine the marks on the Queen.”
“Examine them?” Vincent was stunned by these words.
“It is one mission of the Sentinelle to thoroughly record all Goddess given marks. But we would not like to offend the Queen or yourself. We want you here to assist, if that is possible.”
“Why do you need to know?” Joaquin was skeptical.
“We cannot begin to fathom what types of power she possesses if we do not know what her marks look like.” Hideki answered blandly. Joaquin quirked his eyebrow at him, but he knew that all the men here were trustworthy. He had met them all yesterday after all.
“Gabriel, is this something that is necessary?” Vincent asked him for clarity.
“I’m afraid that it is, Sir.” Gabriel nodded to us. “We need to know what runes she has so we know how best to train her.”
“And how am I supposed to help?” Joaquin still seemed to be perplexed.
“Well, we didn’t feel comfortable examining the marks without you in the room.” Gabriel actually blushed a little as he spoke those words.
“Oh.” Joaquin grinned then looked over at me. “I see you’re treating my wife right, Gabriel. I’m glad none of you thought to disrobe her while I was not here.” I saw Hideki stiffen for a moment, most likely he was remembering his earlier words.
“We wouldn’t dream of it, Sir.” Sebastian said with a grin.
“Plus, you need someone here that knows when she got each and every one of those marks.” Joaquin smirked as he looked at me. “No one knows her body better than I do.” I blushed crimson red at his remark. Goddess, did he have to put it like that?
After the permission was given and Joaquin was with me, we moved on to examining the marks on my body. I removed my shirt, feeling heat rise in my face as I felt their eyes on me. I was not really comfortable with this, but I just imagined it was like a doctor’s visit. It was no different from Griffin giving me that exam for the baby.
My blue lacy bra was still in place, and I covered my front with my shirt as I moved to sit in the chair. Vincent stood behind me, keeping an eye on the other men in the room while Joaquin knelt before me.
Gabriel, Sebastian, and Hideki all looked over my back with intense looks on their faces. I could feel them staring at me, but it wasn’t heated so that made things easier. They were definitely looking at me with clinical interest and not lust. That was both comforting and disheartening. Wasn’t I pretty enough?
No, I shouldn’t be thinking that way. I wasn’t interested in them looking at me heatedly. It was just wounding my pride as a woman that they were so uninterested. For all I know they were hiding any interest because they knew that my husband would kill them if they showed any sort of sexual interest in me. Yeah, that was most likely it, and I definitely don’t need people around here getting murdered. I nearly laughed at that thought.
“Which marks are from the initial Goddess marking?” Gabriel asked Joaquin with curiosity in his voice. “There are so many new marks here that I have never seen before.”
“Everything on the left shoulder is from the Moon Goddess, everything on the right shoulder is from Thoth. The ones across the back, I am uncertain of. And the collar bones go with their respective shoulders for who gave the marks.” Joaquin told him what he wanted to know in an almost flat voice, almost. I could hear the slight heat that laid low in his voice as he looked at me.
“These marks are fascinating.” Sebastian spoke with excitement. “There are some that seem somewhat similar to the ones we already know.”
“Yes, like here.” I felt Hideki’s finger as it grazed my back and heard a very low, nearly silent rumble come from Joaquin’s throat. Hideki instantly pulled his hand away.
“Yes, that is most definitely a memory recall rune.” Gabriel answered him.
“And this is the wisdom rune.” Sebastian added.
“I also see accuracy, tracking, precog, and communications.” Hedeki added without touching my back this time.
“Which runes are those?” Joaquin asked curiously.
“This eye here is precognition. She will, with training, be able to detect danger to those immediately around her. This tree here, and all the others like it, have to do with communications.”
“Is that why she can speak to us inside our head, and why her animal forms can speak like a human and not, well, an animal?”
“Yes, that would most definitely be the reason.” Hideki responded with a steady tone.
“This bullseye is the accuracy rune, most likely to work with these arrow runes.” Sebastian was moving on.
