Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
I saw that she was holding the small, silver hand mirror that came with the new castle, courtesy of Athair m贸r. The mirror was in fact vibrating slightly, and there was the soft sound of chiming bells coming from the mirror.
“Thank you, Ella. That will most likely be a call from Queen Gloriana.” I smiled at her.
“Really? A call on the mirror?” She looked surprised at the thought, and of course relieved that she wasn’t losing her mind.
“I will take this now; you may return your seat.”
After she nodded her head and ran off back to her seat, I threw up a sound blocking shield over myself, Joaquin, the twins, and Gabriel since he was right behind me.
“Hello Aunt Glory.” I smiled into the mirror. “I am so sorry that it took me such a long time to answer your call. We are in the middle of a banquet at the moment.”
“Oh I know. I wanted to be there. I had plans to leave this morning to be there in time; however, something came up.” I could see exhaustion in her eyes and some not so pleasant emotions as well.
“I hope you’re alright.” I was worried about her, and the message that Danu had given me. Could this be it? Or the start of it?
“Just some people causing trouble. It’s nothing for you to worry about. I just wanted to wish you a happy birthday, Riviana. You’re my niece, but you’re my friend first and foremost.”
“Thank you, Glory.” I smiled at her, happy to have had this chance to talk to her.
“I have to go now. I am still busy, but I wanted to call before it got too late. I love you all,and please tell everyone hi for me.”
“I will.”
The image in the mirror changed in an instant, I was looking at myself instead of Aunt Glory.
“Hmm, that doesn’t sound like a good thing.” Joaquin was thinking along the same lines that I was.
“I will have Roisin ask her family what is going on in the courts. And I am sure that Valerian could get some information for us as well.” Gabriel was always so efficient. He was already formulating plans that would help us get more information and help if it was needed at this time. We needed to stay vigilant when it came to Gloriana and the Fae compound. I couldn’t let my guard slip at all. And this was definitely going to require me to speak with Athair m贸r later.
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Joaquin
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I know that the call from Gloriana had put my Little Bunny on edge. She was worried about what was about to happen, and if this was the foreseen battle already preparing to start. I was right there with her, worrying about it. But until we knew for sure, there was nothing we could do.
“Let us not focus on that too much.” I took her hand, still wrapped in the silence of her shields. “Until we know for sure there is no reason to panic. This could just be something that happened in the court and not the enemy that we’re waiting for.
“Yes, I know.” She looked at me while I held her hand and smiled at me.. “I will do my best.”
“Mama?” Rika, who seemed to be sensitive to emotions, called out to her. “Mama sad?”
“No Rika, Mommy is not sad.” Little Bunny turned then and kissed our little girl on the head. “Mommy is just thinking, that’s all.”
“Mama smile.” Rika grinned when she saw Riviana’s face now.
“Yup. See, Mommy isn’t sad. How can I be? You and Reagan are both here with me.”
“Mama.” Reagan leaned forward to see her now after she mentioned him.
“Mommy loves you both so much.”
It was a sweet and tender family moment, and I was glad it was just for us, or mostly us. Gabriel was there, but he was family now too.
After that, my Little Bunny dropped the shield, and Gabriel went back to his place behind us. We were able to get the banquet and ball back on track. The meal concluded not long after that.
I took Riviana’s hand and helped her to her feet then while there was a large, covered cart wheeled to the front of the stage. We each picked up one of the twins and walked to where the cart was.
“Queen Riviana,” Abigail began in a loud, happy voice, “may I present to you your birthday cake that we worked so hard on.” With that Abigail lifted the cover from the cart with the help of Bethany and Viola, two new members of the kitchen staff.
The cake was beautiful, and huge. It was twenty-one layers tall, I counted them. The icing was done in different blues, silver, and white. There were symbols that represented Riviana all over it, from the Riviana Knot to the three Goddess symbol, and even vines for the Fae. The entire thing was beautiful and elaborately designed.
“It’s wonderful.” My Little Bunny smiled. “Don’t you think so, Rika.” Riviana asked the toddler in her arms.
“Cake! Mama me wan cake.”
“Ooh! Cake! Dada, me get cake?” Reagan was also wanting the cake first.
“Let Mommy blow out her candles first, then your Lola and Nona will take you upstairs to eat cake.” I calmed the boy in my arms. “Want to see Daddy light the candles?” I asked him and his eyes lit up while he nodded furiously.
I had gotten so used to my fire magic over the years that I could light the twenty-one small candles and the large decorative candles at the top all at the same time. I snapped my fingers and immediately all the candles were glowing brightly, everyone in the room had their eyes on us and clapped when they saw that little display. Most of them never saw me use my magic either.
What followed that was a very long process of singing to my Little Bunny. The only ones that I cared about were Reagan and Rika as they tried to sing the words with everyone else. Their attempt was so cute.
