Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“I wouldn’t mind a friendly chat while we eat. But we can hold off on the major issues until after the meal.” Dietrich indicated his preference.
“That sounds perfect. Please, enjoy your meal everyone.”
We ate our food, talking about the upcoming wedding. There were discussions of the baby. And, not surprisingly, Dietrich wanted to know more about me, Shane was more than happy to answer when I was unable to.
“How old are you, Shawn?” It wasn’t a hard question to answer, but the heated look in Dietrich’s eyes, a look that was clearly filled with desire, that was what was hard to get past.
“I…I…I’m-.” I just stuttered until Shane took pity on me.
“We’re twenty-six.” Shane answered the question.
“Such a tender age. I remember those times for me. I was twenty-seven when I became an immortal.” I would be twenty-seven in just over six months, physically we were almost the same age, but he had been a vampire for five hundred and one years, how was I supposed to cope with that? “Did you go to college Shawn? I personally have gone many times.” Dietrich was grinning at me. If I needed another reason to feel inadequate next to a five hundred year old man this would definitely do it.
“N-n-n-no.”
“We joined the warriors straight out of high school.” Shane told him what path our lives had taken. It was true, I had let Shane convince me to go straight for a pack career instead of wasting time on college. It seemed right at the time but now I just felt like an uneducated fool next to Dietrich. Why would he want a mate like me? I was nothing compared to him.
“Dietrich, how did you know that I am pregnant?” Riviana brought up something she had clearly been thinking about for the last several minutes.
“I may not have the same senses as a wolf, and I have never smelled you before so I would not have been able to detect it from that alone. However, as a vampire, I have the ability to sense life. And when I looked at you I saw not just one life essence, but two.”
“Does that mean you would know if someone were having multiples.” Rawlynne joked.
“I admit, I do not know. It has not happened yet as far as I know. I am not often around pregnant women. If the few that I have encountered personally in the last five hundred years did indeed have multiples I have no way of knowing.”
“Hmm. Sounds like it would be interesting to find out, you know.” Rawlynne looked contemplative.
“Are you planning on multiples?” David asked with a hint of shock and fear from across the room.
“Goddess no!” Rawlynne screamed at him. “I’m still coming to terms with having mated with you, don’t go and bring kids into this too soon.” David visibly relaxed at those words at which point we all started laughing at the relatively new couple.
“That’s one thing you won’t have to worry about.” Dietrich turned to me with smoldering eyes and a primal grin on his face. “We’ve got built-in birth control.” I felt my face burn, I knew it was redder than anything in the room, and while I was sitting there panicking and feeling like my heart was going to explode from the shock of that statement my brother was in the corner of the room laughing hysterically and nearly collapsing from the force of it all.
“So, Shawn, your brother said that you have not had many relationships and that they didn’t last long, does that mean that you’re innocent?” Those words from Dietrich darkened my blush so much that I actually thought I was going to pass out from all the blood rushing to my head..
“I-I-I-I-I-.” I couldn’t get my mouth to work so I just stuttered uncontrollably.
“Shawn are you?” Shane shouted.
“Shut up!” I yelled at my brother. “My personal life is none of your business.”
“I’m sorry.” Dietrich’s face seemed to crumple and sadness replaced the burning heat that had been in his eyes. “I should not have asked that. It was too personal. Forgive me.”
“No, it wasn’t you.” I was backpedaling and I knew it, but I didn’t like that crushed and defeated look that had entered his eyes. He was too strong and powerful to have a look like that. “I was yelling at my brother. He’s just an asshole.”
“So, you’re not angry with me?” Dietrich leaned into me again, a sly smile on his face.
“Uh, well, I, it’s not, you’re my, we’re, no I’m not. I’m not mad.” It took me a long time to settle on an answer that didn’t make my heart flutter at the thought. What was happening to me?
“Good, I’m glad. We can save the personal talk until we’re alone.”
“Alone!?” I sounded like a mouse as I squeaked out my answer to him.
“Yes, I am so looking forward to getting to know you, all about you and the life you’ve lived.
When I had finally felt my face cool down and thought my blush was settling, Dietrich pulled me from the chair and wrapped his arm around me again. The blush returned with a vengeance.
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Shawn
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There had been some pretty mind blowing revelations during the meeting that followed dinner, but it still didn’t hold a candle to the fact that I had found my mate. My very male vampire mate.
The questions that I kept asking myself was how could I be mated to a man when I wasn’t gay? Or at least I didn’t think that I was. Could you go your whole life not knowing you were gay? Wasn’t there supposed to be something that told me that I was interested in men instead of women?
The problem was that I was not really interested in either men or women, at all. Not until now that is.
Just being next to Dietrich made strange thoughts run through my head. What was I supposed to do? I didn’t know how to act. And what was I going to do with the fact that I now had a vampire as a mate.
There was just so much to think about. So much that I didn’t understand and wasn’t likely to figure out anytime soon.
Once the meeting was over and we were leaving the room, I bolted. I couldn’t help it. I didn’t want to hear whatever it was that Shane was going to say to me. I didn’t want to have Dietrich put his arm around me again when I didn’t even understand what was going on with me yet. I just panicked and ran.
