Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“Hahh. You know what that worrywart said, but we will be fine with just you.”
“Not going to happen, Luna Queen.” Vincent knew I hated it when he used a title when he spoke with me. “The three of us can go with you. We’ve finished our work here anyway.” He started to walk toward the door and spoke again. “Come on, let’s not keep Juniper waiting. We all know how impatient she can get.”
With a hand at the small of my back Vincent guided me out of the room. My little girl’s trip now had more men than women. Even if we counted the babies since me and Juniper we both having one boy and one girl.
“So much for some girl talk.” I sighed as I let him guide me out of the room.
“You can have your girl talk, Luna Queen, we will keep our distance and watch you from afar.”
“Thank you, Gabriel. I know it’s not your fault, but this is still something that I am trying to get used to.”
“You should be used to it by now, Riviana. It has been nearly a year.”
“That it has.” I smiled at David and his smiling response. At least I was getting the three nicest guards available to me. The only ones that might be nicer were currently in Germany.
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Riviana
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I did manage to talk my three guards into letting me drive. They didn’t want to give in but they finally gave up. I didn’t even have to make it a command.
I mean, I have a license, why not use it. I needed to stay sharp and I didn’t often get a chance to drive. Even before I mated with Joaquin. It was like my family never wanted to let me drive. Oh well, I was driving now and that was all that mattered.
I went to pick up Juniper and she sat in the front seat with me. That left the three guards squished together in the back seat. I felt bad about that but not enough to stop driving.
Apparently I am a maniac behind the wheel though, since Juniped told me she feared for all nine of our lives when I was making my way toward the mall. That was unnecessary. I am a good driver. I have never been in an accident and I have never gotten a ticket, ever.
When we got to the mall the first thing I wanted to do was get a snack. I was hungry but I wanted to save most of my appetite for the lunch we would be having after the shopping trip so I just stopped by a food stall on the way in. Juniper and I both got a large pretzel and cheese that we ate while we were walking.
The first store we went to was a maternity store. It was definitely somewhere that me and Juniper both needed to be. We had been so busy since we got pregnant that neither of us really had the time to buy new clothes for our pregnancies.
It was weird that we were shopping for this when we were only nineteen and twenty years old. I didn’t care though, I was happy. The sales ladies behind the counter, not so much. They were looking at the two of us like we were some sort of criminal just because we were young and pregnant.
“Excuse me, do you have this in a smaller size?” I asked one of them as I held up a beautiful blue dress that was cut so that it would accommodate a growing baby belly. The older lady, perhaps in her forties, just scoffed at me when she heard me.
“Maybe she wouldn’t need to buy maternity clothes while she was in high school if she wasn’t a little tramp.” She spoke to the woman next to her.
“I know, then she could continue buying clothes in the kids section.” They laughed together, thinking that we hadn’t heard them.
“Excuse me?” I kept my voice as level as I could, but there was definitely anger in it. “You have the-.”
“We will handle this.” Vincent placed a hand on my shoulder and looked at the women behind the counter.
“Step back, Riviana. Vincent and I have this. Gabriel will guard you for the time being.” David smiled at me before shifting his face into one of anger for the older women who had been so rude.
I watched the looks on the women’s faces. They were clearly lusting after the very good looking men that had stepped toward them. Though, they could see that the men were with me and that gave them pause.
“Ladies, do we have a problem here?” Vincent spoke in his soft voice. This was to lull the women into a false sense of security.
“I wouldn’t say that we have a problem, no. There’s nothing at all going on.” The one who had spoken first answered while she straightened her graying blond hair.
“No, there is absolutely no problem here.” The other woman, with light brown hair in a tight bun at the back of her head, spoke next.
“Well, that’s not what we observed.” David was walking toward the women now, his voice also soft while he spoke. “You see, I heard you speaking ill of the young lady over there.”
“Could you blame me? To be pregnant and still in high school, it’s despicable.” That lady was digging her grave right now.
“And what, if you would, makes you think that she is in high school?” Vincent took a few steps closer now.
“Look at her, she barely looks fifteen.”
“Lady, if you think that Riviana is only fifteen then you’re blind. She’s almost twenty for crying out loud.” Juniper snapped at the woman behind the counter.
“That’s enough, Juniper, we will handle this.” Vincent calmed my friend who was defending me.
“That means she is still a teenager. Shameful. Does she even know who the father is?” The brunette quipped this time.
Oh, I saw red. Their words were making me so mad right now that all I wanted to do was smack someone, hard.
“That was beyond uncalled for.” David was pissed now. He was a hard one to make angry, but she had done it. “You need to watch that mouth of yours.”
“You all need to watch yourself or we will just kick you out of here.” The graying blonde was sounding so much more like a petty bitch.