Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
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ALMOST SIX MONTHS LATER
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Cedar
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Casey’s family had been happy to find out that we were expecting. My mom and dad were happy to be having their first set of grandchildren. Juniper laughed at me and told me I hadn’t wasted any time huh. But Juniper couldn’t say anything for long. She was soon expecting a set of twins herself. She was due less than a month after Casey was. With so many new babies coming you can imagine that everyone was excitedly offering to help us all out.
I would take that help too. I didn’t know much about raising a baby. Not to mention just one baby was bad enough, but we were having three at once. And even though I hadn’t really told my sister this, I was happy that her babies and my babies would be so close in age. I had quite enjoyed my life as a twin and liked growing up with someone there for me at all times. Now my kids didn’t just have their siblings to turn to, they also had their cousins. I hoped to become the best father and the best uncle that I could be.
We had gotten married in the middle of April. We had left for our honeymoon right before the start of May. Just before June we found out we were pregnant. Now, it was November eighteenth and Casey had been on bed rest for the last month and a half.
Why was she on bed rest? Because we were having triplets and if she didn’t rest then she risked having the babies too soon. As it was we were still almost two weeks away from the due date. The babies didn’t care about that though because Casey’s water had just broken.
I was a frantic mess while for some reason she was as calm as could be. I was running the bags out to the car while she just sat there and told me what to do. While I was moving frantically I couldn’t help but think about when we had moved in here, not to mention when we had built our house. We had picked a secluded spot in Joaquin’s new community. There were still a lot of trees in the lot but we didn’t care. We used our combined magic that dealt with trees to reshape those trees into a beautiful house. All we needed was to add windows, carpeting, and furniture.
We had built our beautiful spacious ten bedroom home ourselves. Because we didn’t have to worry about construction costs it was easy for us to manage. We also weren’t certain if we would ever end up with more kids so we wanted to have lots of space.
Now though, we were about to welcome the first additions to our family. Two boys and a girl that were to be named Beech, Cypress, and Ashle.
Casey went into the delivery room and had all three babies naturally, with no pain killers. That is something that I could be proud of her for and made me know that she was the strongest person I had ever met.
When the babies were born I couldn’t help but fall in love immediately. My children were beautiful like their mother and I felt my heart swelling with love and protectiveness for them. We were going to be one big happy family from now on.
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Ella
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These last two weeks have been the hardest days of my life. My baby brother Sammy had been kidnapped and no one knew where he was. Several people thought he had been taken by a rogue that had skipped town after finding out that pack life wasn’t for him. But that rogue had been found and there was no evidence that he had taken my brother.
Mom and I couldn’t afford to stop working. We had to keep our heads up and keep the shop running so that we wouldn’t end up losing our only source of income. It was hard though, there was no doubting that. I couldn’t believe what had been happening to the pack.
After Sammy went missing there were seven other children that had been kidnapped. Two of the other children were from the pack and the other five were humans from the city. Who was responsible for taking these kids? And what did they want with them? Were they OK? Were they still alive? These were the thoughts that plagued me all day every day. I couldn’t even sleep because of what had been happening.
I was doing my best to put on a smile though, and I was picking up a lot of Mom’s slack around the shop. I know this was harder on her than it was on me. Quite a few times I had to send Mom home for the day because she was so upset about Sammy. I needed to stay strong though.
Today, though, we had a big surprise. The Alpha and Luna were officially getting married. That was a major pack thing and we couldn’t ignore it. Not to mention I was actually able to forget about things? little while I was working. The busier I was or the harder I was working on a dress the easier things were for me.
The Luna needed her wedding dress, which I happily offered to design for her. She would also need bridesmaids dresses, a maid of honor dress, and the mother’s dresses. This was going to be a busy month but until Sammy came back I would happily welcome the distraction.
I worked diligently for weeks to get all the dresses done and ready. I saw the Luna several times since she needed to come in for the fittings and adjustments. I was making things a little looser than they needed to be since Riviana, as she had told me to call her, was pregnant.
They had apparently not told too many people yet but I thought it was wonderful. A new pup born to the Alpha family was also a major deal in the pack. I was happy for them, truly I was, but I still couldn’t forget about my brother. He had been missing for almost a month and a half now and all I wanted to do was cry when I wasn’t working.
More often than not I was happy that I lived on my own. I had bought a small place last year so that I could feel more independent and because I felt that I spent enough time with my mom at work so as a grown woman I needed my own personal space. However, there were more than a few days that I ended up staying at my mom’s house and sleeping on the couch in the living room. I hoped that I would be there and Sammy would just come home to us.
He never did though.
Tomorrow was the wedding and tonight I was being invited to the bachelorette party for the Luna. It was fun, and I was glad I went, but it couldn’t make me forget about my brother. I missed him more and more every single day. I missed him more than I thought it was physically possible to miss someone.
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Devon
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I honestly couldn’t fathom what had been happening in this city. Just recently in the course of two weeks eight children had been kidnapped. They had just disappeared without a trace. There was no evidence left behind at all.
Some of them disappeared from the playground at school, but no one saw anything or noticed anyone that shouldn’t have been in the area. Most of them disappeared from their homes but there was again nothing to lead us toward the culprit. There was no evidence of forced entry, no fingerprints, not even a fucking shoe prints.
Just who the hell had taken these kids?
When the first kid disappeared we had thoroughly investigated the parents while also looking for other clues. That was just standard practice. It doesn’t matter who the parents are, you look into them as well because unfortunately a lot of times the parents or other family members are involved.
But then, more and more kids started to disappear and we knew that we were dealing with someone outside of the families. These kids didn’t know each other. They didn’t go to the same schools. Most of them lived in different parts of the city. Hell, three of them even lived up in that gated community that everyone talked about.
So, who was taking these kids and why? We all thought about it all the time. And more than a few of us discussed it several times.
There was talk about it being a trafficking ring. Bastards like that had started popping up all over the country and as a detective I wanted nothing more than to make them disappear.
