Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“This does not matter to me.” He kissed the side of my face all along the newly formed scar. “This matters to me.” He pressed his lips to mine gently, lovingly. “This does not matter to me.” He released my face and bent forward, placing his lips on the scar on my chest, kissing along it until he would have had to almost kneel to keep going. “This matters to me.” He said again as he raised his head and kissed me right above my heart. “I do not care what you look like at all, my love, as long as you are there for me and your heart is beating then that is all I need in life.”
“Dietrich, mein Liebe, how is it I got lucky enough to have you?”
“I am the one who is lucky, my love, I have finally found you after half a millennium. I had been searching for so long in vain, because you were not yet ready for me.” At those words he pressed a kiss gently to my cheek and trailed down to my neck. For some reason, when he kissed me there it felt extremely sensitive.
“Ahh.” I cried out, unable to stop myself.
“Is something wrong?” He jerked back, looking afraid like he thought he had hurt me.
“No, it just felt really, really intense when you kissed me there just now.” I laughed sheepishly, hoping he didn’t think I was already addicted to sex or something.
“That is understandable, it is where I marked you after all.”
“Marked me?” I gave him a look of shock.
“When I turned you, I had to bite you, and in doing so I marked you, I noticed the mark when I woke this morning, still holding you in my arms.”
“I have a mark? Like a mate mark?” I was still in a state of disbelief as I continued to ask him.
“Yes, and I have to say that I am liking the meaning behind its design.”
“What does it look like?” I wondered out loud as I hurried over to the sink and stood in front of the mirror.
I saw the swirling marks on my neck and expected them to be black like a mate mark usually was. But this mark was a bright blood red. It was swirling lines with a lattice of roses inside of it.
“That symbol is called the Endless Knot and when it comes to lovers it means eternal happiness.” Dietrich was looking at me over my shoulder in the mirror. I could see and feel the joy and the love radiating off of him.
“Eternal happiness sounds pretty damn good to me.” I smiled right back at him as I felt my love for him grow even more. I turned to face him and pulled him close to me, sealing his lips with mine.
After that we had a very eventful shower with lots of hands on time. I was just happy to be alive and with the man that I loved.
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Shawn
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Once we had showered and gotten ourselves cleaned up Dietrich and I started to talk more in depth about what things were changing in our lives now that he was the Vampire King and I was a Hybrid, half wolf and half vampire.
Dietrich had apparently been told by the Goddess herself that she was gifting him with new powers. He said he was the only one who could create Hybrid vampires. She said he could speak telepathically with the other vampires like Riviana was able to do, and that he could now control multiple targets at once with his puppetry skills.
All of that was cool and all, but what was different about me? Aside from me needing blood to survive and basically being immortal. It had hit me after the shower that I no longer had a limited lifespan and I could actually spend eternity, or near it, with Dietrich. That really put a new meaning on the phrase I will love you forever. But I knew that I would love him, forever and even beyond that.
Those were only two things I knew that had changed about me. It wasn’t bad or anything, but I had hoped there were more, you know. I became the first of my kind shouldn’t I be able to do more.
“You can try some Vampire tricks.” Dietrich had suggested playfully.
“Like what?” I looked at him with confusion.
“You know, like shadow walking. And having your fangs come out at will, and we should see if your wolf can shadow walk too.”
“Ok.” I was smiling now, excited. “Where should we practice?”
“Let’s go to our spot up the mountain. It’s special to the two of us now, isn’t it?” I grinned when I heard this. The place he was talking about used to be the place I went to clear my head when I was having a bad day, because it always made me happy. And it was where Dietrich and I had started to make real advancements in our relationship. I was so happy that he now considered it our spot.
Twenty minutes later we had reached the place we wanted. It was just a simple little bluff that looked out over the river below but to me it was a place my soul would always call for.
“Now, don’t be upset if you don’t get it right away, and don’t push yourself, you’re still injured.” Dietrich was just a mother hen sometimes, doting on me like I was a fragile little piece of glass.
“Dietrich, babe, cool it.” I grinned at him as I saw the shocked look on his face when he heard me call him babe. Uh oh, I think he liked that a bit too much.
“Alright, I’ll cool it, so long as I get to step in if I think you’re pushing yourself too far.”
“Fine,that’s just fine.” He was the one who had to teach me how to be a vampire as it was.
“Ok, let us begin.”
Dietrich told me what to do, and how to perform the Shadow walking then. The problem was that there weren’t very many shadows for us to work with. We were quite limited really.
“Well, in theory, you would think about where it is that you want to end up, looking ahead of you at all times, and getting a good picture of it in your head. When you are first starting out it will take you a long time. And don’t be discouraged if you end up somewhere slightly off course, as long as you are in the general location you’re doing good enough.”
“So, should I try for the tree line or the shadow of the mountains first?”
“Try the trees, if you miss you will end up in between them. If you miss with the side of the mountain you could run into it, or off of it.” Dietrich laughed though it looked more like an automatic response rather than him actually laughing at the idea of me shadow walking off the mountain.
