Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
After I used the facilities, I went to wash my hands. Joaquin did indeed go after I did and went to wash his hands as well. I was glad that we had a double sink, because I was taking the opportunity to brush my teeth while he used the other sink.
I was thinking about the marks that were missing from my body. The necklace of trinity symbols that connected them all over my shoulders, neck, and back. They were all gone now. All I had was the mate mark that Joaquin had given me, though it was different now. And apparently a large mark on my back that was just a trinity knot.
I had grown used to all of my marks and I actually missed them. I had once complained about them, but that was when they were so new to me. Now, though, not seeing them there, it felt like something was wrong with me.
“Hey, I didn’t notice that last night.” Joaquin was looking at my back while he dried his hands.
“Didn’t notice what?” I asked him after I spat the toothpaste into the sink. He answered me while I started to rinse my mouth out.
“These little lines.” He was tracing the mark on my back with his finger as he spoke. “There are thin little lines of color on them.”
“Really?” I was curious as to what it meant, but I didn’t know at the moment.
“Yeah, this one in the middle is the same sapphire blue as your wolf has. The one on the top outer side is the same color purple as the magic you used yesterday. And this other outer line is like the golden colored flecks that were in your magic. I guess it’s combining all the colors that make up you.”
“Where did the purple and gold come from, though? The blue has always been part of me, but the others haven’t.” I was still confused right now, it was way too early to think.
“I am guessing it’s from the others. Thoth had red light, and Nehalennia had blue, those make purple. And Danu was gold, I remember that. So, they just became a part of you, that’s all.
“Huh. That makes sense.” I smiled a little. They really were still part of me. I was thinking about that as I turned to look at Joaquin. I saw that he still had all the same marks that he did before. None of them disappeared. I was about to sigh and look a little sad before I saw that there was one mark that did change.
He had the paw and crescent moon mark that so many others had. It meant that he was goddess blessed. Well, the coloring of it changed a little bit. Before it was a sapphire blue paw print and a silver moon. Well, the paw stayed the same, but the moon was now a light purple color and both marks were outlines in gold. They looked pretty but it was interesting to see that they were different.
As I looked closely, checking for other differences, I saw that his mate mark had also changed. It was now an elegantly written letter ‘T’ in a circle. They were simple and easy to tell that we matched. To a normal person, it would look like we just got each other’s initials tattooed on us.. We knew the real meaning behind it though and that was all that mattered.
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Riviana
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After Joaquin and I got ready for the day, it was time for us to head down for breakfast. I was hungry and needed to eat, but I also didn’t want to wait to discuss what was important right now.
“Dietrich, Shawn, Shane, David, Vincent, can all of you please join me for breakfast in my room?” I asked them before turning to Roisin. “Can you please bring everything upstairs for us.”
“Of course, my lady. I will be there soon.” She bowed her head slightly and started to prepare the food to go upstairs.
The five men that I asked to join me had curious eyes but none of them looked like they were going to say no. Not that they would ever do that anyway. They all knew that I wouldn’t ask this of them unless there was a reason.
All of us started up the stairs to mine and Joaquin’s room. Our room was by far the largest in the residence and was more than big enough for what it was that we needed, but I got to thinking about something else. ‘There isn’t a table big enough for us to eat in there.’
Well, I guess I would need to take care of that. I was a goddess now, not to mention I was already proficient at magic before I became a goddess. I could take care of this issue with no problem at all.
All I did was imagine what it was that I wanted to be in the room before we got there. I was picturing a table where the seven of us could sit comfortably and easily. I wanted it to be good for breakfast as well as our discussions.
The moment that Joaquin got to the room, he opened the door for me. I stepped into the room before him and saw that the table that I had envisioned was actually there. It was a beautifully designed table with a black wrought iron frame and topped with a blue tinted glass. It was beautiful and worthy of being in a Queen’s room, but it was also simple.
There were chairs that matched the table as well. Their frames were wrought iron as well, but they were covered in soft, luxurious fabric cushions. I knew without even sitting in them that they were going to be very comfortable.
“Queen Riviana.” Vincent, who walked into the room behind me, hurried over to the chair that was at the head of the table and pulled it out for me.
“Thank you, Vincent. But please be your usual self, at least right now. I don’t want to put on a persona right now.”
“If that is what you want, Riviana, then I have no problem with it either.” He smiled at me as I sat down, and he pushed the chair in for me. After that, Joaquin sat to my left where there was another seat ready for him. The others sat on either side of the table. Vincent was the closest to me on the right as the head of the guards.
“Riviana, to what do we owe the pleasure of a private breakfast with you this morning?” Dietrich was smiling at me from his place next to Shawn.
“I think you all know what it is that I want to talk about.” I looked at each one of them in turn as I spoke.
“Yeah, I think we do.” David was nodding. “You’re not just Queen Riviana anymore. Now you are a Goddess, and that will most likely change a few things.”
“Not to mention, we are all immortal now, or extremely long lived.” Shane added. “I know that some of us were already, technically, immortal.” He looked over at his twin brother and brother in-law. “But now the rest of us can enjoy that benefit as well.”
“Yes, it is a benefit for all of the mixed race couples that had vastly different life spans prior to the immortality sharing. However, I don’t know if everyone in our collective groups of people will want that immortality so they might come to resent me for that.”
That made them all stop to think about that. They might all be happy and excited about the immortality thing, but not everyone wants to live forever. Some people get tired of life after centuries of living. I had talked about this with Dietrich once a long time ago. After he had turned Shawn into a hybrid. We had talked about his long life and what it was like to be immortal. He admitted that there were times that he wished that he had never become a vampire and that he had a human lifespan. But he also said there was much that one could do when you didn’t have the time constraints of a mortal life.
“Are you worried that your people are going to revolt against you for having given them eternal life?” Dietrich was the one who asked this since he was the one among us who knew the most about the long lives of immortals.
“I think that is part of it.” I said as there was a knock on the door. It seemed that Roisin was here with the food.
We put our discussion on hold while she served us our meal. I trusted Roisin, and she was a valued member of my family and inner circle, but I was just talking to the guards for right now. I still hadn’t brought Gabriel in here to talk to him. I thought I would do that after the original group had their chance to speak about all of this. These men sitting before me have been there with me since the beginning. Even Dietrich felt like he had been there all along, even though I met him not long before my wedding. He was still a vital and important player in all of this.
As soon as Roisin was done and I thanked her, she left the room and the conversation continued from where it left off.
