Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“We want to go in alone.” Alex, a born leader, spoke next.
“We don’t want the other kids picking on us.” Luka rounded our their refusal to have their dads walk them in.
“Why would they pick on you?” Dietrich asked with his head tilted to the side.
“Because if you walk us in we will look like babies.” They all four spoke with perfect timing. They really were a perfect set of quads.
“Alright, we get it.” Dietrich laughed. “Do we get hugs and kisses at least?”
They thought about that for a second before coming to an instantaneous and unanimous decision.
“YUP!” They all ran to us, jumping into our arms. We hugged them, holding them tight and kissing them all over their faces.
After that, they held hands and walked away in one long line. I felt the tears begin then as my heart shattered.
“It will be just fine, Liebling. They will be home later today.” Dietrich pulled me to his side, hugging me gently.
“I know, Geliebte. But I miss them already.”
“Makes you wish we could have more, huh?” He chuckled into my ear.
“Shut your fucking mouth.” I snapped at him as I pulled away to get back into the car.
But he wasn’t wrong.
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Rawlynne
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“Raw, I need you on this ASAP.” My boss, Director Harris, threw a file onto my desk before slouching into the chair across from me.
“What’s this?” I asked as I grabbed the manilla folder.
“Serial kidnapping in Colorado Springs. They’ve had eight kids go missing in the course of two weeks.” I could see him itching to grab the pack of cigarettes from his pocket, but he wasn’t allowed to smoke inside so he just had to push past it.
“Eight?” I felt the shock settle on me when I heard what he had said.
“Yeah, and there is crap for evidence. Half the kids even disappeared from their homes and nothing.” There was tension in his voice and the set of his shoulders.
“Any suspicion of the parent’s?” That’s always the first place to look at a case like this, but the fact that there were so many of them made that a little less likely.
“No, it all seems to be clear that it was done by someone else. The kids came from good homes, no abuse, nothing that sticks out at all. But the fact that we have nothing to go on is pissing me off.” His voice was full of anger and barely controlled rage. Harris had a soft spot for kids and he knew I did as well. “You’re the best I have for a case like this Rawlynne. I need you on it right away.”
“No worries, Harris, I will head out immediately. Do you have some contact info for someone I need to make feel very uncomfortable now that we’re stepping in?”
“It’s all in the file, so do your best to get this settled as soon as you can.”
“No worries, I will get it done, boss. I’ve never failed yet.”
With that Harris left and I could already see Jackson making his way toward my office. Jackson McIan was my partner, a year younger than me but fiercely loyal and protective of me. Jackson was the brother I never had growing up.
“So, do we have somewhere to go?” Jackson was a sweet guy that was often misunderstood by others. His light blonde hair and warm chocolate colored eyes were all innocent looking, but his bodybuilder’s physique and imposing six foot two stuature worked against him.
“I was thinking of going alone.” I told him as he flopped into the same chair that Harris had been in a few moments ago.
“What? No way, Where you go I go.” I knew that he was going to insist on that. He always insisted on going with me.
However, there was a reason why I wanted him to stay home this time. I knew that the place I was going was crawling with wolves. I had no pack and was considered a rogue. Ever since my parents died I decided not to be involved in the whole thing. But if this was exactly what I was expecting it to be then there was no staying out of the wolves’ territory this time.
I suspected a strong supernatural force behind these kidnappings. They weren’t the first and they wouldn’t be the last. Harris knew about me, about what I really was, but he had known me for a long time. Jackson didn’t know, and he didn’t need to know. But what I was, what I am, that let me crack these types of cases wide open.
“Come on Raw, we go together, you know that. I have to keep an eye out for my little sister.”
“Jack, I’m older than you.” I reminded him for at least the thousandth time.
“Semantics. I’m bigger so you’re my little sister.” He was grinning at me. When Jackson and I met a few years back he had just lost his sister in an accident. He seemed to latch onto me then, and not really knowing that I was missing that whole family essence I latched onto him as well. We made the perfect team, always in sync.
“I’m going with you.” He insisted, leaving no room for arguing.
“Fine, but no one else, we will handle this alone, just the two of us.”
“Sure, no prob.” He was grinning now, all seriousness washing away from him in an instant. “Soo.” He dragged the word out a little before smiling at me again. “Where are we going?”
