Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“I will take the throne, annihilate my enemies, free the dark Fae, and rule the world.”
Well, that was easy. I got her entire evil plan right up front. I guess it was true that evil villains were so maniacally stupid that they always seemed to reveal their whole scheme so easily.
“So, you seek world domination? Well that simply won’t do. Do you know how many innocent people there are in the world? Do you know how many people you would be destroying just to seek the end to a maniacal plan that would ultimately leave you just as miserable as you were before?”
“What? What are you saying?”
I seemed to have confused her. That large projection of her face was tilted to the side and glaring at me for some reason. She was so honestly and truly confused by what I had said to her that it was nearly comical.
“What I am saying, Solanum, is that you won’t be happy even if you take the throne. It would be a pointless and wasted loss of life. So, I simply won’t allow it to happen.” I gave her a firm look that I usually reserved for misbehaving children. In other words, I was telling her that she wasn’t really worth my time.
“SILENCE!” She bellowed the word so loud that I felt like it almost burst my eardrums. Everyone in attendance, aside from me, Aunt Glory, Athair m貌r, and Joaquin covered their ears. Was it because we were royalty and trying to give off a commanding air that we managed to keep ourselves from reacting like the others did?
“I will not be silenced, Solanum. You crashed a wedding that had nothing to do with you only to threaten my Aunt Glory. I will not stand aside and let that slide.”
“Stop calling these people your kin. That is simply not true.” She seemed truly angered by this fact. I guess she really didn’t want to know that there was more proof of her time spent married to Athair m貌r.
“I will not stop it. I am the last descendant of Antirrhinum and his mate. My ancestor was conceived before Antirrhinum was killed in the war. I will not be silenced because it is true.”
I intentionally let her think that I was the only one related to her. I did not need her focusing on anyone else in my family. And while I said those words, I placed silencing barriers around everyone that might say something to the contrary. I wanted to protect Joaquin and my children. This woman was not to, under any circumstances, know that I had children. I just knew that she would target them next.
“If you are the last descendant of my bloodline, then all I need to do is kill you.” She grinned and I saw a hand enter the large vision that was standing hundreds of feet tall in the sky. “I will strike you down here and now and put an end to this.”
I knew she would lash out. She was a maniacal, sociopathic, homicidal bitch. I gathered all of that just from the way she had talked. Oh, and the way that she told me her whole evil plot.
“Prepare to die, bitch.”
The good thing about what I had done was that those silencing barriers I put around my mate, children and guards kept them from running toward me as well. I didn’t need them getting in the way right now. I was going to handle this.
Just as I managed to put a barrier over the entire plaza, and every guest in attendance, there was a bright red streak of light about the side of a small stream of water flying from the floating hand and straight at me.
It didn’t reach me though. It just bounced off the barrier and rebound toward Solanum. She was obviously not physically there because it flew right through her face and dissipated into nothing.
“What?” She was shocked again, unable to believe what had just happened.
“I will not let you harm me or the Fae. Give up now, Solanum.” My voice was strong and firm when I spoke to her.
“I will never give up.” She screamed at me. “I will have your head for this. I will have all of your heads. Mark my words, death is coming for you all. Blood will rain down upon the walls of your castle and it will turn black with the hatred that we, who were sealed away, have for all of you. I will bring war upon the land of the Fae and my army will be those that you cast away. You have been warned.”
With that, Solanum’s image disappeared from the sky, and the blue sky and shining sun returned.
“Riviana?” Joaquin said my name as I let the barrier around him drop. He was worried about me and just a little bit pissed off. “Don’t ever do something like that again.”
With Joaquin’s arms around me, I looked out at the terrified faces of the Fae that were looking at me. Most of them were in awe of the fact that I had fought back against Solanum, the others were just too scared to move or talk.. This wasn’t good.
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Riviana
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The wedding was over after that. The attendees were too frightened to do anything other than head home and hide away. This was just over a year after the fear and worry that had plagued them when Hibiscus was wreaking havoc on the city. This was all happening too soon for them.
The citizens were sent home and ordered to stay inside. Honestly, with the threat of war having been issued, I don’t think they would want to come out of their homes. They would probably want to leave the city and take their chances among the humans. They all probably felt safer doing that.
What I felt the most heartbroken about, was that Aunt Glory’s wedding had been cancelled. She and Trevor were not able to finish their ceremony with everything that had happened today. And poor Daciana, she will forever have to remember the day of her wedding as the day that a war had broken out among the Fae of the light and the ones that had been sealed away for centuries. That would most likely make her never want to celebrate this day.
She was handling it well, for now. Her and Athair m貌r walked hand in hand behind Aunt Glory and Trevor as we all made our way to the study for a strategy meeting. Joaquin was holding for my arm as we marched onward, and I was just glad that I had some of my family here to take the children back to the residence.
I was actually thinking about the children a lot. In all honesty, I was probably going to send my parents home with all three of them and have them protect the children there. The ley lines would keep the protection magic going strong in the castle and protect them. I would most likely send quite a few people there if I thought that things were going to get too dangerous here for them. Those that were incapable of fighting needed to be protected.
When we made it to the office, we all sat in our usual places. Aunt Glory and Trevor were seated together on an armchair next to the fireplace. Athair m貌r and Daciana were sitting on a loveseat opposite them. And Joaquin and I were sitting on a couch that was to the side of them and caused us to form three sides of a rectangle.
“What the hell was that about?” Trevor blurted the words out the moment we were all alone and seated in the room.
“That was a shit show, that’s what that was.” Joaquin answered him.
“I wouldn’t call it a shit show.” I scolded him. “Honestly, it could have gone a little better, but it definitely could have gone a lot worse as well.”
“Yes, I am truly thankful that Riviana was there with us today. If it had not been for her, then we might not have been able to survive this day.” Athair m貌r was giving me a look that was filled with both gratitude as well as shame.
“Athair m貌r, is she that strong of an enemy?” I needed to know this. I needed to know what we were up against.
“It is hard to say.” He was intentionally not answering my question.
