Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“I don’t know about the others, but I for one am happily falling for you already Lana.” She laughed then and the sound was so sweet.
I hoped now that the battle wouldn’t happen. All I wanted was to sit here and talk to Lana all day.
We talked all day. I learned that Lana had joined the Sentinelle when she was twenty-six years old but she still looked like she was no older than twenty. I felt like a pervert just thinking about her in a sexual way. I know that I didn’t quite look forty yet but I know how old I was.
Still, I may look close to twenty years older than Lana but she was older than me. She was twenty-six when she joined the Sentinelle but that was in the year nineteen hundred and two. One hundred and nineteen years ago. That meant that Lana was now one hundred and forty-five years old. She was more than a hundred years older than me and still looked so much younger than me.
Did that make me a cradle robber or a grave robber? Or was Lana a cougar? I really didn’t know how to label this age difference between us. Still, I was happy to have finally found her.
I also learned that Lana had joined the Sentinelle mostly because she hadn’t found a mate yet and no one was interested in marrying someone with magic eyes. That was what the people of her village called the color of her extremely beautiful eyes.
Lana had learned of the Sentinelle and their loyalty to the future queen. She figured that if anyone would ever accept her differences it would be the future queen. She had served the Sentinelle with that hope in mind for so long. And apparently, she was not disappointed.
When Lana met Riviana she had been accepted immediately. Riviana didn’t see anything different about Lana and the two of them got along well from the beginning. So well, in fact, that Riviana had gifted Lana with a healing ability just like mine.
I was happy to hear what Lana wanted to do, and what she was capable of doing. I would see to it that she was trained properly and proper documents were procured to allow her to be the lead nurse in my clinic. Lana looked like a quick study and I would love to work with her every day.
Lana said she no longer had any family since they would have perished long ago. Their descendants were not her family, according to her. She gave up that life and everything that was part of it.
I told Lana that my family came from a different pack. That I was brought here as a little boy to be raised by my extended family that had already fled the former pack. My sister had followed me shortly after. We had lived together until we came of age but I changed my last name and went to medical school. I wanted to live my life the way that I wanted.
My sister, Vivian, kept the family name of Westbrook. I know she had a baby that I never got to meet before she left town since I was in medical school at the time. I tried looking for her several times over the years but I never found anything.
The rest of my family back home basically meant nothing to me. Here in Colorado I had my uncle and his wife who raised me. They were my family but they passed away a few years ago. So, in a sense, both Lana and I were alone in this world, and that is why it was so much better that we finally found each other.
We talked endlessly. Buying more coffee, ordering sweets and even getting lunch. It was all so wonderful that it made me forget that we were going to have work to do. But life wouldn’t forget since we were eventually called in by Riviana. We needed to hurry.
We made it to the battlefield as quickly as we could and we instantly saw the carnage and the senseless loss of life. I was called immediately to the side of a man named Shawn. I had met him before, he was one of the personal bodyguards for Riviana, the Luna.
Shawn was dying. He was poisoned. And there wasn’t much I could do. I poured every ounce of skill and magic that I possessed into trying to heal the man but the toxins were moving through his bloodstream too fast.
I was forced to step aside as Shawn’s mate, a vampire, turned him into something that none of us had ever seen before. Shawn was going to be half vampire and half werewolf.
While I did what I could to help Shawn, Lana had gone with Joaquin to help the others. Once it was certain that Shawn was going to live and I wasn’t needed for him I too went to help the others. I healed the injured and helped to count the dead. It was not an easy day.
In the end there had been three dozen lost to the battle. I guess it could have been worse but it still pained me to see. A man who protected and valued life as much as I did would never be OK with the amount of violence that was in the world.
I wanted to spend more time with Lana when the day was over but I was too exhausted mentally and physically. I told her goodbye and promised to see her soon when she came for training at the clinic.
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Griffin
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Something that I noticed about my abilities right away was that I didn’t need to actively use my magic to help my patients. Just being near me was enough for them to start getting better.
I mainly treated humans in my clinic since wolves don’t get sick that much. One of the only things that can truly affect a wolf is cancer and it’s still very rare. The thing about the cancer though was that it was worse in a wolf than in a human. A wolf’s fast metabolism and accelerated healing made the cancer cells grow at an astronomical rate.
Cancer in a nutshell is when your cells have become corrupted. The corrupted cells think they’re healthy and are attacking the body to get rid of what they think are the bad cells. Now imagine someone who creates new cells ten times faster than a human being. That person will almost always die when they get cancer.
Now, since Riviana gave me my powers I was able to cure these patients with and without magic. Just them coming to see me meant that their cells were returning to normal. I noticed it in my human patients as well. This made things that much better for every patient I would ever have again. And I also noticed the same thing happening with Lana. It was going to be a great time of healing for all of our patients.
We were working hard in the clinic together since the day after the battle. Getting back to a semblance of normality was what was best for us, or at least me. I didn’t know how normal Lana thought it all was since she had lived in a seaside abbey in France for over a hundred years. Still, she seemed to be adjusting well.
It had been nearly two weeks since the battle and Lana had been working with me every day since. I could feel my bond with her, my attraction to her growing every second of every minute of every day since.
The problem was, I didn’t know what to say to her. I had gone so long thinking I would be alone forever that I didn’t know how to be with someone. Lana, likewise, didn’t say anything. Did she not feel what I felt? Did she not want to be my mate? I had thought things were going so well that first day too.
There was a tension so thick between us that it was impossible the others in the office didn’t notice.
I was currently sitting at my desk and watching Lana work through the opened door. Julie, one of my nurses, came in to ask me something but I didn’t hear her at all.
“Dr. Griff?” She called me over and over before coming to grab my shoulder and pull me out of my daze. “DR GRIFF!” she practically yelled at me.
“Huh? Oh, hi Julie, what can I do for you?” She just glared at me.
“I was going to ask you if you wanted me to lock up since all the patients are gone and it’s just the three of us here.” She was glaring but there was laughter in her voice. “Now I want to ask you to take care of this before I come back into work tomorrow.”
“Take care of what?” I was confused.
“This thing that has been going on between you and the new girl.”
“I don’t-.” I was going to deny it all but Julie interrupted me.
