Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
‘You’re irreplaceable, Vincent. I know that, and so does she. Take care of her, take care of your children. Go home and spend some time together as a family. That is my plan for the next few days.’
‘Thank you.’ He smiled again, this time with tears in his eyes. Everyone around us knew that we had been having a private conversation, but they weren’t saying anything about it. We were free to go about our business, which was good. We were done, mind you, but still we could have talked for hours, and no one would have said anything.
While I was thinking that, I heard a baby cry. I instantly knew who it was. OK, maybe Vincent and I couldn’t have talked for hours without interruption. Talia clearly wanted to see her mommy.
“Riviana, I think you need to pay some attention to the little princess here.” Mom was smiling with tears in her eyes, obviously wanting to hug me as well.
I handed Reagan to Joaquin and walked over to my mom and my baby. I wrapped my arms around the two of them, pressing my cheek against Talia’s as I did so. I held them against me and nearly cried as I felt the warmth of my family. While I held them, dad came over and wrapped his arms around us, adding to the warmth and the love that I was feeling.
Talia protested after a few moments, though. She wanted her mommy time not just a hug. After feeling her push against me I took her in my arms and cradled her against my chest. That was when Joaquin came over with Reagan and Rika so that our little family unit was now complete. The five of us were hugging each other and sharing our love for each other.
I had needed this. I needed to be here with these people. I had needed my babies above all else. There was nothing like the love that I had for these little ones and for Joaquin. They were my whole world.. Even though I was a Queen and a Goddess, I still care for my family the most. Was that bad of me?
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Wesley
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I watched as Riviana left the room. My mind was still reeling. What the hell had I just heard? I mean, did she really just tell us that she was now a Goddess? Did she truly just tell me that she had accepted Nehalennia, Thoth, and Danu into herself.
What the hell had happened while they were at that battle? What happened to cause this? What happened to my daughter?
“I just can’t believe it, Eve.” I know that my jaw was hanging open and that I probably looked like a fool as I tried to process the words that I had heard.
“Well, you need to. There isn’t much that we can do about changing it.” She was right, but that didn’t make the words any easier for me to accept and understand.
“It’s just that, you know, when I took Riviana in to raise her as my own, to raise my sister’s baby as mine so that she had a family that loved her, I never thought any of this would happen. I never thought she would turn out to be my Luna. I never once thought that she would become the Luan Queen. And I sure as hell never once thought that she would ascend to the point of being a Goddess. I mean, did you ever see this coming? All those years ago, did you ever think that we would be raising someone so important?”
“To me, Riviana has always been important. Whether she was the Luna, a Queen, a Goddess or even a college drop out that decided to become an old cat lady or something. She would have been important no matter what. I think this is just our little girl living up to the potential that she showed us she had all those years ago. This is just Riviana being who she was always meant to be.”
I couldn’t help but smile at her words. She was right. Riviana was just being the person that she has always been. She hadn’t changed. Not once has she changed the way that she thought, felt or treated the people around her. She is a good person, she always has been. This was a new title. A new title in a long list of them that she has received over the years.
And to think, it’s been just a little less than five years since she became the Luna. So much has happened in that time. So many things that have made me think that I was going to have a heart attack because my daughter was in a life or death situation. This was just another tally added to that list as well.
“GAHH!” I cried out frustratedly as I thought about it all in circles. This was all still so crazy, no matter how I looked at it. This was the most crazy thing that had ever happened.
“What now, Wesley?” Eve looked at me with laughter in her eyes. It was like she thought my freakout was funny. I’m glad she was feeling entertained.
“She’s my little girl, Eve. How could all of this have happened to my little girl? I was supposed to be protecting her from all this crazy stuff and then her life just gets crazier and crazier.” I grabbed my head and threw it back in frustration just as the door opened and some of Riviana’s guards started to come into the room. They hadn’t been present for ‘the talk’ since they had already known. “Oh my Goddess, Eve, when is this stuff going to seem normal?”
“Hey, don’t you mean: oh my Riviana?” David, one of the guards, started to laugh before he continued. “You know, since she is the Goddess now.” He clearly didn’t think this was as crazy as I did.
“HAHA!” Shane, who was standing next to him, started to laugh at his joke immediately. “Yeah, that’s funny, mostly because it’s true. We should all start saying Oh my Riviana. That will be funny. It would all be like this. OH MY RIVIANA! OH MY RIVIANA! OH MY RIVIANA!” He was laughing again once he had finished pretending to panic. It was like he was pretending that someone in a panicked state would be calling out for my daughter. “Ooh ooh, or this one.” He grinned then continued in a husky, sensual voice. “Oh my Riviana! Oh my Riviana! Oh my Riviana! Oh my Riviana!” With each additional time that he said the words, he was acting like he was getting closer and closer to a climax. “Get it? Since she is the goddess.” He was nodding like it was all so perfect. “Oh my Riviana! Oh my Riviana! Oh my Riviana! Oh my Riviana!”
Amid Shane’s fake moaning, someone else came into the room behind him. However, it was clear that Shane wasn’t paying enough attention and didn’t realize who was right behind him.
A very large hand landed on the back of Shane’s head with tremendous force. Shane very nearly fell to the floor, if he hadn’t caught himself on the wall, he would have ended up sprawled on his ass as he looked up into the very angry eyes of his Alpha. As it was, he turned around with his hand on the back of his head and a repentant look on his face.
“What the fuck are you doing? Why are you saying that? Don’t you ever talk about my wife like that.” Joaquin was very pissed right now, and I didn’t blame him at all. I had been getting angry at Shane’s joke as well.
“N..n..no, Joaquin, it’s not what you think. It wasn’t like that. I was showing how people could replace Oh my Goddess with Oh my Riviana. Y..you know, since she is the Goddess now. I..I wasn’t trying to do anything else.”
Shane was literally staring into the face of a very angry man who had heard someone else moaning his wife’s name. That was bound to make him murderous.
“I never, ever, want to hear you say ‘Oh my Riviana’. Not ever again. Do you understand me, Shane?” Joaquin’s voice was nothing more than a rumbling growl as he spoke.
“Y..yes, Sir!” Shane stood up straight and tried to recompose himself. Poor guy. Oh well, that’s what he gets for talking about my daughter like that.. Dumbass.
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Shawn
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We had just got done with the meeting where we all met Queen Gloriana and her brother Valerian. I would like to say that finding out that Riviana was a direct descendant from Queen Gloriana’s bloodline was the most shocking and surprising thing that I heard tonight.
However, I can’t say that at all. I was trying not to think about it, though. I was trying to push it out of my mind while I got the boys ready for bed. Dietrich, my mate and husband, was getting the girls dressed and ready for bed at the same time.
“I have their bottles ready as well.” Dietrich said as I laid Levy in the bed. I took the two bottles that he was holding out to me and handed them to the boys who were on the verge of sleep.
“Thanks.” I didn’t want to sound angry, pissed off or rude at all, but I just couldn’t help it.
I waited in the room for the babies to fall asleep. At which point, I took their bottles from them and went down to the kitchen with them without saying a word.
