Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“Am I the only one who ever survived?” My heart and mind couldn’t handle that thought.
“No, there have been others, but they were not as strong as you. They easily bent to his will and did his bidding.” That eerie, echoing chorus of their voices sent shivers down my spine.
“What became of them?” I didn’t know if I really wanted to know, but I had to ask anyway.
“Most did not live long after their awakening. They were either killed by their own people or drowned in their magic.” The man who had stepped forward answered my questions alone.
“What made me so special?” I asked them. “What was different about me that allowed me to live but killed all of you?”
“That we do not know.” They all spoke again.
It was finally hitting me. This group of people, the hundreds of people before me, they were all my brothers and sisters. Edmond had not been lying when he said that he had been up to these tricks of his for a long time. And I most definitely was not the first. But I would be the last if I had anything to say about it.
“I won’t let him do this to anyone else. I won’t let another child be his unwitting pawn and helpless victim. This needs to end.” I could feel the determination growing within me, right alongside my hatred for Edmond.
“We want to help you.” A little girl spoke up as she moved forward. She was the smallest of them that I had seen so far, and she looked the most like me. This little girl was wearing a little flowered dress with a beaded leather vest over it.
“Help me how?” I wondered.
“Our father is on the move.” The crowd chorused. “He seeks to return to where his troubles started.”
“Where his troubles started? What troubles could he have?”
“You!” Their voices, so calm and scarily in sync, caused all the blood to leave my face. I felt myself swoon in place as my body began to feel cold all over.
“Me? So if he’s going to where it all started does that mean he’s going to my home? He’s going after my people? My friends? My family? My city?”
“You must hurry, sister.” Their voices were insistent. “You must stop him. He must not be allowed to succeed here. If he wins this battle then the world will be lost forever.”
“Believe in what you have learned. Believe in yourself as we believe in you. But now you must hurry.” The man who started the whole thing ended it as well.
When he finished speaking with his pleading voice the whole group turned and began to walk away. None of them took more than a few steps before they all faded and floated away on the wind, nothing more than wisps of smoke or mist in the night air.
I woke with a start, sitting bolt up in bed and breathing hard. My hands reached out next to me in search of Joaquin and his comforting warmth.
“What is it Little Bunny?” He asked as soon as he felt me frantically searching for him. He sat up and placed a warm, strong arm around my shoulders.
“We need to go. We have to get home. Now!” I was sweating hard and my heart felt like it was about to jump out of my throat.
“What’s wrong? What happened?”
“Edmond is on his way to our home. He is going to go after and attack our people.” I saw the look of shock on Joaquin’s face as he heard my words. Things were about to get ugly if we weren’t careful.
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Joaquin
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I woke to the feeling of my Little Bunny frantically sitting up and searching for me in the bed like she thought I wouldn’t be right there with her. Like I had anywhere else to be. She was scared for some reason. Her heart was racing, I could feel it as I slipped my arm around her and pressed myself against her to let her feel that I was right here with her.
“What is it Little Bunny?” I asked her, my voice soothing with no hint of the worry I felt.
“We need to go. We have to get home. Now!” The breathlessness of her voice, the fear that was resonating in her tone, and below all that the anger that was slowly vibrating, all these combined to set my hackles on edge.
“What’s wrong? What happened?”
“Edmond is on his way to our home. He is going to go after and attack our people.” I felt my heart stop and my stomach drop at those words. Edmond? He was making his move now?
We were out of the bed and getting dressed in the blink of an eye, it happened so fast that I didn’t even get to spare a glance at my wife as she changed. We weren’t scheduled to take off from the airport for another twelve hours, but we didn’t have that kind of time. We needed to leave now.
Once we were dressed we started to alert the abbey. Pounding on door after door dragging sleepy individuals out of their beds. Once we had woken everyone that was down our hall we told them what the problem was, there wasn’t an unaffected face in the bunch.
“He’s going to Colorado Springs?” Vincent looked like someone had just punched him in the gut, with a knife. “No, he can’t. We need to stop him.” The worry that was plain as day on his face showed how much he was afraid for his family at that moment.
“That’s what we plan to do.” I assured him as I put a bracing hand on his shoulder. I could feel the tension coursing through him, surging stronger and stronger every second.
“We need to get going now.” Riviana spoke to them in a voice full of command and authority.
“But we’re not scheduled to fly out for several hours.” Shane pointed out.
“And this is a situation where Joaquin can definitely throw his money around to fix. I don’t care if I have to buy both airports, I am taking off from here in less than two hours and we will be landing back home with no issues.” Her voice was rising in volume but lowering in tone at the same time. It was an unsettling sound.
“Let’s not go spending that much money before we have to. I’m sure you’ll find that I can be quite persuasive. For now we need to wake up everyone else and get the hell out of here.” I put an arm around her, pulling her close in an attempt to calm her frustration a little. Who would have ever thought that I would be the calm and rational one between us. Whatever she saw while she was sleeping had really scared her.
