Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“Don’t leave me.” I cried as their lights began to fade.
“We will never leave you.” The three of them said together as their voices danced on the wind.
I felt my body lowering back to the ground. I hadn’t even known that I was floating in the air, high above the ground. One moment I was suspended as if I was a marionette puppet waiting for someone to move my strings, and the next moment I was once again on my knees next to Vincent.
Vincent had not been healed yet. The celestials did not help him.
Just as I was about to panic, I realized something. I am the celestial being now. I was the one who was meant to heal him. It was up to me to do this from now on.
“Live, Vincent. You will not die today.” I put my hand on his chest and instantly felt time start to move again.
I was in a different position than I had been when time froze. My abrupt change from one place to another made most of the people who had been watching the scene gasp. Even Joaquin, who was kneeling on the ground right next to me, fell back as he jumped in surprise.
“RIVIANA!?” He gasped. “What the hell just happened!?”
I ignored him, though. I just pressed my hand more firmly against Vincent as I healed his wounds. There was a bright, shining light that started to illuminate the clearing that we were in. This light wasn’t like anything that I was used to. For one it was a light purple color, like lilac. But that wasn’t the only thing different about it. The light itself seemed to have golden flecks in it, almost like some sort of sparkling dust that was magically floating inside of the light.
“Riviana?” Joaquin breathed my name in surprise as he saw the light. He knew that it was different as well. “What is going on?”
“I am healing my brother.” I turned my head slightly so that I could look at Joaquin as I spoke, which only made him gasp more. He apparently saw something in my face that shocked him. I could find out what that was later. For now, I was busy saving a life.
As soon as I thought that I heard a loud, sharp intake of breath. It was like Vincent was taking his first breath of his new life. He arched his back a little and lifted up from my legs, almost like there was magic involved, which there was.
The color was back to his face. His wounds were gone. He was alive and you couldn’t even tell that anything had happened to him at all.
“Vincent?” I smiled and started to cry. He was really and truly alive.. “I am so happy, Vincent!” I threw my arms around him and hugged him tightly.
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Joaquin
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I was standing there in awe, watching my wife hug another man. This was a man that she had cried over, begged not to die and not to leave her. I should be jealous, except that I had done the same thing. Vincent was too good of a friend to lose. So, just this once, I wasn’t going to be mad that she was hugging him like that.
Not to mention, there was the fact that Riviana had just saved Vincent’s life. That wasn’t a new thing at all. She had done that many times before. No, what was different about it this time, was the light that came from her when she did it.
Somehow, for some reason, my Little Bunny was different. Something about her had changed in the last few minutes, but I didn’t know what it was. She looked the same. She had the same dark, mahogany brown hair, the same triple colored eyes that never failed to put a smile on my face. The same soft, clear, pale complexion that made her look gorgeously ethereal. All of it was the same.
I mean, there shouldn’t have been anything different, right. What was it that I should be looking for as I tried to figure it all out? Her hands were the same, even though they were holding onto Vincent’s shoulders at the moment.
There was nothing at all that seemed to be different. I mean, I could even see her marks and they looked…. They looked…. They looked different. Wait, WHAT?! What the hell happened to her marks?! Even when I looked at her neck just now her mate mark was different. Why? What caused her marks to change again?
“T..T..Riviana? What happened to you?” My stammering and unprompted question seemed to surprise everyone that was standing around us and immediately made them look at me like I was a weirdo. I mean, they didn’t know why I was worrying about her, so they didn’t understand what was going on.
“Nothing Joaquin. I am fine. When I followed after Solanum, I didn’t end up being hurt. I am good.”
“That isn’t what I am referring to.” I shook my head and brushed aside her words. “I am referring to what happened to you after you came back. You’re different, aren’t you? Something changed in you. What was it? Did you visit the gods again? Is that why you suddenly changed positions?”
I saw that she was smiling. It was like she hadn’t thought that I would notice, and she was happy to see that she was wrong.
“Yes, Joaquin, I did.” That was all she said. Seriously? She wasn’t going to give us anything else?
“What happened, Riviana? Why are your marks different?”
Once I said that, everyone around us started to take a closer look at her. They were able to see that the marks that came forward over her shoulder and down to her collarbone were now gone.
“He’s right.” Vincent, who was sitting the closest to Riviana and should have known right away that something was off, finally realized that something was different about her. “T..T..Riviana, please tell me you didn’t give up your power, your status, just to save me.”
The fear and worry that filled Vincent’s eyes then was unlike anything that I had ever seen before. It was clear to see that he was devastated just by the idea of her giving up so much for him. I have to admit, I was worried about that as well.
“No, Vincent, I didn’t.” She smiled but there was something off about the way that she was talking.
“Riviana, garin铆on, why are the marks gone? If you still have your power and? your abilities, then why are they gone now?” Valerian had been standing next to my Little Bunny and looking at her, but he had now dropped to his knees and was looking at her full on in the face.
“I have changed, yes, but I am no less powerful than I was before.”
“Does that mean you are more powerful than before?” Trevor asked, he had also caught the subtle little way that she said that.
“I believe I am, but that is something that we should save for when we get back.” She smiled at us all as she slowly looked around the clearing. “It appears to me that this war is over. I think it is time that we head back to the city and rest properly. After we all get a good rest, we can talk about what happened today.” She was trying to put it off for the time being.
“No.” I spoke firmly and stood, pulling her to her feet with me. “We will talk about it tonight. As much as I want to get you to myself, I think this is something that we all need to talk about now, before any of the details get muddled or forgotten.”
“Joaquin, I think that we are all tired. It would be best if everyone rested, and then we can get together tomorrow.”
