Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“That’s fine, Gabriel, just tell me what you know for now.”
“As you wish.”
I watched as Gabriel pulled out a leather bound journal. He flipped it open to a certain page and started to read. I searched for your father’s family as much as I could. He was indeed born Gannon Cornelius Edmond in the year fifteen hundred and seventy-one. His parents, Mathilda and Bayard were a witch and a warlock. Their official records were difficult to find as they immigrated from Europe, which was actually where your father was born. They were killed during the Salem witch trials; Bayard was probably the only man executed during that time, and they were perhaps the only true witch and warlock that were put to death during the trials.”
He flipped a page and started to read again. He seemed to have taken thorough notes on this subject.
“Mathilda Edmond was originally Mathilda Harrow; she was born from Agnes Harrow, formerly Greene, and Boris Harrow. Boris was a warlock, but Agnes was human. Boris, however, was born from two human parents, Chandler and Genevieve. That was as far back as I could go on his side. Agnes’s parents were Lennox and Isabel Greene.”
Another turn of the page, another deep breath as he prepared himself to read again. I had shifted Reagan to my shoulder so that I could burp him and then hand him off to be changed, so I could nurse Rika.
“Bayard Edmond was born to Caius and Joan Edmond. Joan was originally Joan Lester, and she was a witch. Caius, however, was human. His parents were Rory and Ellen Lester, that too was as far back as I could find for now. Joan Lester was born Joan Young, her parents Turner and Alice were both human.”
“So, I have great grandparents that just mysteriously became a witch and a warlock for no reason? How does that happen?”
“I am still investigating. I do not plan to give up until we can answer that question, my lady.”
“Ok, thank you, Gabriel. I appreciate you looking into this for me. I know that it must not have been easy to locate all of these old records and to trace these bloodlines back hundreds of years. You have done an amazing job.”
I handed Reagan off to Vincent so that he could take him to Joaquin upstairs. Joaquin would change him and then put him down for a nap. Vincent also handed me Rika so that I could nurse her now. Just as Vincent was leaving the room, Gabriel started to speak again.
“I have more information, Luna.” I had been busy getting Rika situated so I wasn’t paying much attention. I didn’t notice the serious tone in his voice, and I didn’t see the look he was giving me.
“Yes, go right ahead.” I told him.
“This information is perhaps even more important than what I have already told you, my lady.” I noticed the seriousness this time so I looked up and saw that he was giving me an intense look.
“What other information could it be? What else did you look into?”
“I researched both sides of your family, my lady. And in doing so I found something that you truly need to know.”
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Riviana
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“Both sides of my family?” I was confused. When Gabriel and I had been talking about this before, I don’t remember him saying that he was going to investigate and research my mother’s side of the family. I thought he was just going to research Edmond and his side of the family. “Why did you check both sides? My mother’s family are nothing, but wolves. There is nothing to discover there.”
“That is where you’re wrong, Queen Riviana. There is something that I discovered on your mother’s side of the family that you should know. In truth, the investigation into that information is what has been taking me so long. I will not give up until I have all the information that you seek. The trail is there, it is just buried.”
“What trail?”
I felt like the world was about to explode around me. What was he telling me? If my mother’s family was not just wolves, then what were they? Was my family even my family? What am I?
I felt like I was losing connection for a moment. I was about to spiral and lose all sense of what was real for a moment. But I couldn’t let that happen. I had a family of my own now, a baby in my arms. It was Rika’s warmth and the gentle weight of her in my arms that brought me back to my senses.
“Shhh.” I shushed the baby that was beginning to fuss in my arms. Once she was readjusted, she latched on again and continued her meal.
I stared at Rika’s sweet face for a few minutes, taking in the cuteness of her little features before I looked back to Gabriel.
“Alright, tell me what is different about my mother’s family.” I nodded at him to let him know that I was ready.
“My lady, during the course of my investigation, I found no anomalies on your grandfather’s side of the family. As far back as I have researched they are all purebred werewolves. However, your family began to change a couple generations ago. I followed your mother’s family as I said, and from her I followed her parents. And so on. As I said, going from the line of her father there were no changes, but from her mother there started to be some things that I couldn’t ignore. Your mother’s father, Gordon, died before your mother could meet him. He had married his wife and had a baby on the way when he was deployed and sent to war. He never returned from that deployment.”
I knew all of this. I had learned this much from family stories from Uncle Wesley. He had told me that his grandfather was a man of mystery to everyone, but that he was viewed as a hero.
“What about him, Gabriel? What do you think was so different about him?”
“He seemed to have been born long before he met his mate. And a true mating it seems to have been. But the information that I found for Gordon Underhill shows that he was born sometime in the mid eighteen hundreds, though those records are inconclusive.”
“Wait a minute. How is that possible? Wouldn’t my great grandmother have been born around the early nineteen thirties? How is it that my great grandfather was born almost eighty years before her?”
“That is what I am trying to tell you. Gordon’s mother, Jazmin, passed on just after the turn of the century. She apparently kept many journals, but I am having a hard time getting my hands on them. The thing is, she apparently met a man when the wolves were called on to assist another race in a war. It was the last time that the wolves had helped them until recent times. The connection between the two races seemed to have died out after that war.”
“What war are you talking about? The only one I know of at that time was the Civil War.”
“The Civil War happened after this one, and this war was not visible to human eyes. It took place in the last remaining city of the Faerie plane.”
“The Faerie plane?” I was getting more and more confused with every word that he spoke, but I needed to keep listening. I also needed to cover my breast and pat my baby’s back so that I could ease the pressure in her belly.
“The Faerie plane, my lady, is where all the creatures that are Fae used to live. It was their hidden world away from humans. The lands are still there, however, they are no longer occupied by the fae. When the wars started, it tarnished the lands and left them scarred and uninhabitable for more Fae creatures.”
“What lives there now, Gabriel?” I wasn’t sure if I wanted to know.
