Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
I noticed that Riviana stalked over to Shawn’s twin brother and growled at him in a low voice.
“Don’t you dare give him hell about this. He needs to accept it and understand it without you making it worse.”
“Yes Luna.” His head snapped up and he looked like he was afraid of her.
My heart had been pounding and fluttering with excitement with each second I had spent next to Shawn. When I touched him, the feel of his warm, glorious skin made my palm blaze with heat, my heart melt, and need flood my body.
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Shawn
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I had been standing in the hall with David and his new mate and my annoying brother as we waited for the others to come inside. We would also be able to rush outside if something were to happen and they were to need out assistance.
I didn’t know what to expect when the vampire got here, but I didn’t expect to have my wolf scream the moment they all came inside.
‘WHAT?’ I screamed at the howling beast as he said one word over and over.
‘MATE, MATE, MATE, MATE, MATE!’
What the hell was going on? I only saw the vampire and the human who had driven him. She was different from other humans, off somehow, but she couldn’t be my mate. She was quite a bit older than me for one thing, and she didn’t look like what I thought the Goddess would have chosen for me.
While I stared at her, confused, I didn’t notice the vampire as he snuck up behind me.
“So we finally meet.” I jumped and spun to face him when he spoke right next to my head.
“E-excuse me?” I couldn’t believe that my voice sounded so scared and nervous.
“I have been looking forward to meeting you since I saw you last week.”
“W-why would you be looking forward to meeting m-me?” I asked him shakily.
“Because, in all my years, I have never met someone so intune with my wavelength as you are, Shawn. Do you know what that means?” I just shook my head at him. “But, you must have noticed it by now, right?”
This was crazy. I had no idea who this vampire was but he obviously had the wrong person.
“What should I have noticed?” I asked him as I looked around for allies.
“Trust your senses, Shawn. Close your eyes and follow your truest of all senses.”
“No, I shouldn’t.” I was trying to refuse, I didn’t want to do this, I didn’t want to close my eyes in front of this unknown, yet intriguing vampire.
“Trust me, and just do it.” Dietrich insisted, his calmness faltering for just a moment.
“Just listen to him for a moment Shawn.” Joaquin instructed me. I wanted to plead with him, to beg him not to make me do this, but I complied.
The last thing I saw was the vampire staring at me. His bright, almost white blue eyes full of joy and expectations. The black hair neatly styled with not a strand out of place. His strong, athletic physique was quite intimidating when you see him in person.
‘NO!’ I yelled at myself. I had to stop thinking like that, he’s a guy for crying out loud.
With my eyes closed and my head tilted back I inhaled deeply. The scent I had first noticed by the door was so much stronger now, so much closer. As the scent filled my head, filled my senses, I got a vision of the person it belonged to. Cognac, leather, age, and experience. Those were the words that came to my mind when I scented him. No, not him, them. I didn’t know it was the vampire. It couldn’t be him.
I smiled involuntarily for a moment when I let that scent take over my mind.
“What do you smell Shawn?” Joaquin asked me while my eyes were still closed.
“It smells like musk, cognac, and leather.”
“And what is this scent telling you?” Joaquin questioned me more.
“The scent, and my wolf, are telling me that I’ve found my mate.”
“And where is that mate?” Joaquin asked.
I opened my eyes, staring right at the vampire, Dietrich, I just knew there was a look of pure shock on my face.
“How?” Dietrich smiled at me when I asked him this.
“I imagine it’s the same way as any other mating. Or am I wrong?”
“But this is impossible. How can this be?” I shook my head trying to get the scent out of it and say no at the same time.
“In all my five hundred and twenty-eight years I have never found a mate. I have of course had my fair share of lovers over the years, but never have I felt anything like what I felt when I first saw you on that video call. I knew when you were bespelled by my words that you were the one for me.” Seriously? This man was telling me that I was his mate, he was my mate, and I was the first one who he had met in over five hundred years. How could I be destined for a man for one thing and an elder vampire for another?
