Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
The sixth and seventh floors were the kitchen, dining, living room, and other ‘common’ areas of the tower. The eighth floor was all those adjustable personal residences for Lila and any other family that were to move to the castle with us. The ninth floor was going to be for the kids, current and future. And the top floor was all mine and Joaquin’s. The nursery was directly connected to our room by a staircase that only went between the two. That had nothing to do with the main staircase that spiraled up the center of the tower. There was, of course, also an elevator that went up this tower as well.
The design scheme of the tower was much like that of the old house. The patterns and color schemes, even the furniture. That made things a lot easier to adjust to for us.
There was a lot of space to this tower; it alone was about as big as the old estate was. This whole castle life was going to take some getting used to. I wasn’t worried about it though, I found the whole concept quite exciting, and I couldn’t wait for it all to start coming together.
Joaquin and I went to the top floor by ourselves to check out the room for us. Lila and Athair m贸r watched Reagan and Rika while we went up alone. The moment that Joaquin and I went into the room, or onto that entire floor that was our massive bedroom, I heard him whistle.
“Holy shit, this is massive.” He was laughing.
All of our stuff had been brought up here already, and there was a lot more furniture that there was to begin with; all of that furniture had been crafted with magic and imagination. Athair m贸r had told us that he had personally added some of the furnishings to our new room, one of which was the bed.
The new bed was literally massive. It had a giant intricately carved headboard that incorporated wolf motifs, magical elements, and Fae designs all in a beautiful layout; moons, paws, wolves, elements, vines, and more that was what was among the carvings.The footboard matched it but it wasn’t as massive.
The bed itself was the largest thing that I had ever seen. It looked like it was at least twelve feet wide and no less than eight feet from headboard to footboard.
“I can’t wait to try that one out.” I heard Joaquin purr next to me. “Sounds like it will be fun, huh?” I just rolled my eyes at his words as I looked around our new space. There was a smaller version of the library in the room as well as different dressing stations for me and Joaquin, on opposite sides of the room of course. There were massive closets, way bigger than the ones we had before. And the bathroom, which was already huge, was now massive. The tub, if it is even possible, was bigger than the last one. There were also a lot of super awesome, relaxing looking jets on that tub so it was also like a super massive hot tub.
I couldn’t believe this new room of ours, let alone this whole new castle.. It was surreal.
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Riviana
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Well now that the castle was built, I guess it was time to build the kingdom itself. That and staff this massive fucking place. I guess I didn’t realize how much ‘bigger’ this place was going to be after it was redone. And then there is the fact that, you know, we built it almost instantly and had like zero time to prep for it. In all honesty, we had done it all a little bit recklessly.
There were some plans that I had in mind before I got all of this rolling, aside from the council, so what I truly needed to do was bring a few people here to talk before Dietrich left for his meeting with the covens that were having trouble. This is something that would work well for me as well, since I wanted people who would be able to handle peace among the supernatural population. We could try to use this crisis as a starting point.
Aside from Dietrich, I knew that I wanted to have Riley, Landon, and Trevor on the council for the shifters, and I was bringing Crawford in for the warlocks. However, I wanted to have two representatives from each species. I wanted to have a male and female perspective of everything to make it a ‘checks and balances’ system. I wanted to make sure that everyone’s opinions were viewed fairly and nothing overly misogynistic happened. This was a matriarchy after all, so women mattered a lot.
I wanted to get ideas from all of them on who should join the council with them. I called all of them to come and meet with me. I actually decided to do this the magical way as well; I just called them all mentally. I did get some grumblings, but not much, especially when they found out that it was important business.
Some of the conversations started like this one here.
‘Trevor?’ I spoke to him silently and waited for his response.
‘Dammit! By the Goddess Riviana, that scared the shit out of me. This is the first time you’ve called me like this.’
‘Yes, that is true. However, you knew it was a possibility.’ I laughed in my head as I spoke to him, and I just knew he heard the laughter as well.
‘Yeah well, knowing it can happen, and it actually happening are two completely different things.’ I could hear a laugh from him now as well. ‘What is it you actually need, oh great and powerful witch of Oz?’
‘That’s a good one.’ I was laughing as I tried to think the words to him. ‘I need to have a meeting, a really important one, and you’re invited, oh great and brave lion.’
‘OK, Dorothy, don’t you dare confuse me with Landon, I am not a lion, I’m a bear.’ These references were getting pretty funny.
‘Yes, but when we meet the lion she does say lions and tigers and bears, oh my.’ I did my best to remember, and I think I got that one right.
‘Hey, don’t mess up the classics. That scaredy cat scarecrow said lions and tigers and bears. Old D only said oh my.’ I could tell that he was actually a fan of the movie.
‘Oh my, I must have forgotten. Forgive me Mr. Bear.’ I joked with him and waited for the laughter to leave his head. It was weird how I could hear it all.
‘Alright, alright, what kind of important meeting is this?’
‘I am building my kingdom and the council. The time has come.’
I could feel the seriousness that washed over him through the mental connection. After that, he promised to be there the next day. That was good, since everyone that I invited said they could be there the next day.
When they all did arrive, Joaquin and I were waiting for them outside. It was polite to greet your guests, right? OK, the truth was that we just wanted to see their reactions to the new house.
“What in the fucking hell?” Riley exclaimed as he got out of the car that he, Landon, and Trevor came in together. “What the hell happened here?”
“Where the hell is the estate? And when the fuck did you get a castle?” Landon looked just as shocked.
“Holy shit! Joaquin, I gotta change your dog name. This place is too fancy for the old one, I gotta call you, Fru Fru or Puffington.”
“Fuck you, Trevor.” Joaquin snapped at him. “Or I will call you Paddington because the little lost bear came all the way here from his backwoods home.”
“Don’t make fun of my woods, dude. They’re awesome.” Trevor smiled and joked back as another car was coming up the driveway, and behind that was one more.
“Well, this certainly is new.” Dietrich laughed as he got out of his sleek car. “I dare say, this is bigger than my castle back in Germany.”
“Holy, what the hell?” Shawn looked nervous. “Did I miss something?”
