Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
After that we gave her the presents we prepared for her, which included a large framed portrait that was taken of Reagan and Rika just last week. They were so cute and cuddled with each other. There was also a copy of the family photo we took along with all the other gifts we gave her. I was happy to see the smiles that she had at that time.
Joaquin and I exchanged ours next, just like last year. Only this time there were no gag gifts that said Fido or Little Bunny. We got thoughtful and meaningful gifts for each other. Joaquin was just as sweet and caring now as he always was.
I handed Joaquin the three bags that I had prepared for our children.
“You open them since they can’t.” I told him with a smile. When he pulled out the snowflake ornaments, Lila cried out.
“Those are beautiful. Oh my Goddess, I love them. And look, they even have their names inscribed on them. That’s wonderful.”
Next Joaquin pulled out the ‘Our First Christmas’ ornament. I had taken it out of the bag and put the family portrait in it. It looked perfect now.
“They’re wonderful.” He smiled at me. They will be used every year from now on.” He walked over and hung them right on the tree.
Now all that was left were the two very large gifts that he seemed to have gotten for the babies.
“Let’s see what Santa brought.” He laughed and ran over to them. “Want me to open them?” He asked excitedly. It was like he was a kid, and they were for him.
“Go ahead, you seem excited enough for them.”
Joaquin ripped the paper off the two presents with a flourish. Now sitting in front of me were those giant ride on vehicles for toddlers. The one for one for Rika was a princess carriage and the one for Reagan was a giant truck.
“Joaquin!” I yelled at him. “Are you kidding me?”
“What?” He looked confused.
“They’re way too young for those.” I continued to scold him.
“Yeah, now. But they will get older and bigger. They can use them eventually.”
“Yeah, in like three years, which is when you should have bought them. Not now. It’s too soon. Seriously, Fido, I can’t believe you sometimes.” Lila was cackling on the chair while I scolded her son. I couldn’t help it, her laughter was infectious, and it was making me laugh.
“But they can use them when they get older.” Joaquin whined. “They are perfect and adorable.” He was defending his purchases.
“Sure they are. Now find somewhere to store them or donate them and buy new ones in two years. Besides, what if Rika doesn’t like princess stuff. That would just be tragic for her Daddy to give her something she doesn’t like.”
That made the color drain from his face. He hadn’t thought about that at all.
“Call up Vincent and tell him we have presents for Conner and Renea.”
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Joaquin
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Things had been going good for the most part. I had been helping Riviana feed the babies and so had Mom, Eve too when she was over. The problem was that the babies just didn’t want anyone to feed them other than my Little Bunny. They were so picky and demanding sometimes.
I was glad now though that they were going a little longer between feedings. They were a couple months old now and they could go up to three hours without needing to eat during the day and sometimes even four hours at night. That made things a little easier on us, specifically Riviana.
Now, though, it was valentine’s day, and I wanted to do something special for my wife. This was only our second valentine’s day together, and on the last one, I had asked her to marry me. That had been a wonderful day.
I can’t repeat that day, but I could repeat how it ended. We could have a romantic dinner and some time alone. We even had some milk in the fridge that mom could use to feed Reagan and Rika so that we could get most of the night to ourselves.
Riviana was all for the nice dinner, as long as it was at home. She didn’t feel up to going out. So, I had a special dinner prepared for us, and we were going to eat it in the solarium. This would be nice because we would be in the house, but we would be looking at the outside world.
I had asked Abigail to prepare all of Riviana’s favorites along with a beautiful heart shaped cake. I prepared a gift for my mate as well, the one and only valentine I would ever have. I just knew that it was going to be a perfect night.
I walked down to the solarium with my date, barely able to keep my eyes off of her. She was wearing a beautiful pink dress that only came down to her knees. It was a strappy little A-line dress with an empire waist right below her breasts. It made that particular part of her look really, really, really good. I couldn’t keep my eyes off her breasts for anything, except for maybe her legs that seemed to be super long and sexy with the black heels that she was wearing. She was gorgeous.
“You’re so beautiful.” I told her for like the twelfth time since we left the bedroom.
“Shut up, Joaquin. You’re making me uncomfortable. It’s like I’m super ugly, and you just want to convince either me or yourself otherwise.”
“That couldn’t be further from the truth.” I was so shocked by what she said.
“Fine, but stop mentioning it, OK?”
“Alright.” That made me sad. All I wanted to do right now was tell her how sexy and beautiful she was.
When we got to dinner, she smiled sweetly.
“It’s been a while since we had a date in here.” She was feeling nostalgic now. “I love it in here too. It’s so pretty to see the world around us, especially at night.”
“I know, this is the perfect place to have a date.” I was grinning at her, focused more on her ethereal beauty that the moonlight made even better than on the scenery. “Come on, let’s sit down.”
