Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“What are you doing to us?” Alloy screamed.
“Calm down, Alloy. Please, don’t cause a scene. Just embrace it.”
I saw that wounds on Sterling were closing. The smaller ones were closing quickly, but that large one across his chest was taking a long time. I had a feeling he needed a little bit more magic to help him. Magic that I didn’t have.
“Alloy, take his hand. He needs your magic to help him as well. He needs magic similar to his own as well as the love you share.”
“What?” Alloy looked at me like I was a weird creature.
“Don’t worry about how I know, help him.” I gave him a stern look.
“Alloy?” Sterling held his hand out to the other man as he called his name. Finally, Alloy took his hand and I saw a silver light start to form at the point where they held hands.
“I am not going anywhere.” Alloy looked at his lover with tender eyes and a soft smile.
Soon, that silver light started to spread around the three of us, Alloy’s magic blending with my own and finishing the healing process. I thought of one last thing before the healing was over, something that would help me to decide if they were telling me the truth or not. Though I was pretty sure that they were.
“Please, Nehalennia, Thoth, and Danu, if these men are innocent, mark them. Show the world that they did not commit the crimes that they are being blamed for. Help me to protect them if they are not the culprits.”
As soon as I said those words the light seemed to explode. I watched as the shining gold and silver light became shimmering dust that was falling to the ground around us. I thought that it looked pretty, but Alloy was looking around us with shock and fear. But Sterling, however, was smiling happily as he sat up. He was fully healed and no longer on the brink of death.
“Sterling.” Alloy called his name when he saw him.
“Alloy.” I watched as the two men embraced each other, happy that the threat of death was gone for the moment.
“I am glad that you’re safe.” I lowered my head slightly in relief as I spoke.
“Who are you?” Alloy asked me, a little less wary of me than he was before.
“Yes, I wish to know the name of my savior.” Sterling gazed at me with reverence.
“My name is Riviana.”
That got a bigger response from the two of them than I had expected. They must have known who I was. If they didn’t, then why would the both of them look at me with shock filled eyes. I had a feeling that the rest of this conversation was going to be interesting.
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Riviana
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“You are Riviana?”
“As in, the Riviana?” The two men before me were speaking as if I was some kind of legend.
“I didn’t know that I was so famous among the Fae. That is, unless there is another person that I don’t know about who lives here within the Fae realm and they’re also named Riviana.”
“No, to my knowledge there is only one Fae named Riviana..” Sterling, who was now able to sit up and support his own body since he was healed, answered me with a serious expression.
“The only Riviana that has ever come to the land of the Fae is the Queen’s niece, Valerian’s descendant. Is that who you are?” Alloy asked me with wonder in his voice.
“Well, I see that my reputation has preceded me.” I laughed a little at his words. “I am indeed that Riviana.”
“So, you are a Queen?”
“Queen of the shifters and the magic users?” These men, when one of them wasn’t dying, seemed to be in perfect unison with each other.
“That I am.”
“And you have been personally blessed by two of the celestials?” Sterling was acting like someone meeting a celebrity that they admired.
“Three actually.” I smiled at him and pulled the collar of my shirt down just a little bit. “Last Yule celebration, I was blessed by Danu.”
When the men in front of me saw the mark, and heard the name of their goddess, it was like they had been struck in the face. The shock that was written on their faces and the trembling in their eyes only got worse.
“Danu?”
“The mother Goddess?”
“How can that be?”
“Why would she bless someone aside from Queen Gloriana?” That little exchange started with Sterling, and the two of them alternated until they had said what they needed to.
“Well, I was summoned by Danu and asked to protect Aunt Glory and Athair m貌r, that is the simplest way to explain it.” I never let the smile slip from my face as I spoke to them. I wanted to let them know that I was not an enemy.
