Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
I knew that it needed to be done. I knew that this was the right thing. I knew that time was moving on and I couldn’t stop it. But knowing all of that didn’t make it any easier for me to accept it. I was sad, dammit. I was a mother, and I just gave my children away to a stranger. Yeah, I know, they’re an employee at a school that I own and all that, but that doesn’t mean anything when I have to be the one to drop my kids off and just leave them. How do people do this? How did my parents do this? It feels like I am going to die from the sadness and heartache.. This school day can’t end quickly enough.
****THIS IS A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE NEXT VOLUME TOLD BY THE AUTHOR. IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO READ THIS, SKIP IT AND MOVE ONTO THE NEXT CHAPTER. THIS IS A PERSONAL ADDRESS FROM DENI CHANCE INTRODUCING YOU TO WHAT WILL BE COMING NEXT*****
Welcome, all of you, to the next volume of the Riviana Series. I know that name is nowhere near the title of the book, but that is because I never truly intended to bring the story this far. When I originally started to write the book, back when I originally planned out all of the details, I was thinking that this was going to be a one shot book. I didn’t think that I was going to have so much to add to it over time. The story, however, had other plans for itself.
The more that I wrote, the more that I got into the story, the more that I wanted to say. I have so much more that I want to do with this story as well. I thank all of you that have read as far as you have and I hope that you continue with me on this journey as I continue to tell you all about the life of Riviana and her family.
Now, as you all know, Riviana and Joaquin have come a long way from where they were when the story started. At the end of volume three, it had been just shy of six years since they met each other. Riviana was twenty-four years old. The twins were almost five and just starting preschool. Talia was just over a year old. And Joaquin was thirty-one. A lot of time has passed since Riviana was just eighteen and in college and Joaquin was the young twenty-five year old Alpha.
Riviana became a Luna, then a Queen and Goddess Incarnate, a Queen again, and now she is the Goddess herself. She has personified the word trinity more times than I can count right now. And every step of that growth, all along her way, Joaquin has been there for her.
I know we all hated Joaquin in the beginning. I count that as a real positive on my part. I think that it was an amazing feat for me to create a character that was so universally hated in the beginning. That isn’t all that easy to do sometimes.
Still, we all learned what it was like for Joaquin and why he was so guarded. He never, in fact, hated his Little Bunny and was always there to protect her. He just went about it in a stupid way. What can I say about him except that: he’s Joaquin. He is complicated and mysterious and loving, and protective, and fierce, and sexy all at the same time. (Don’t judge me about that sentence, it’s perfect the way it is because, if you were to say it all out loud, it would sound like someone thinking and talking at the same time.)
Over the course of the books, we have all come to love Joaquin, to adore Vincent, to know that Shane is always good for a laugh, that Shawn is the sweet one, that David is amazing and loyal. We also learned that Grandfather has always loved Riviana, and that Wesley, Eve, Carter, and Noah view Riviana like she has always been their immediate family member. It was just Riviana that needed to come to understand that she was loved.
We also saw a little bit about her past, her family history, and some of Joaquin’s family’s past. I believe that in this book you will come to see some other histories and they will make you think about some of the choices that were made and what implications they might have had. Who knows? You might come to sympathize with one of the former villains.
Just like Riviana and Joaquin, I am not a perfect person. I have my faults and I have to deal with them in whatever way that I can, and I do that by writing. Now, why do I mention this? Why do I point out that I am not perfect and even mention Riviana and Joaquin in it as well? Well, that is simple. It brings me to the point of what volume four will be about.
In volume four, Riviana will have a lot of self-reflection and personal growth. There is a lot about Riviana and her feelings that have been kept a secret. There are things that she had never even shared with Joaquin. Those things will come into play in volume four.
Because of this difference in the story, you will see less of the other characters in this volume. They are not gone, but they will not be the primary focus this time around. There will be a lot of time information brought to light that has been left unsaid. And I think that something that we have all been missing about Riviana, her actual flaws that make her more relatable, will make a comeback.
In this volume, I want to focus on Riviana, on who she is, what she is, what she has done, and most of all where she will go from here. There is, of course, a villain in this story. There is an actual plot and things that Riviana will need to do. That is a given. What you won’t find in this volume as much as the others are the mature scenes (what my discord server members call cake scenes, total inside joke there).
All of this little bit of explanation aside, what I am trying to tell you here, is that volume four is starting and you will all see some sides of Riviana, and some other characters, that you have never seen before. I hope you like it and I hope that you are not all that upset about reading this brief introduction. Immediately following this will be the start of the next volume in the Riviana series.
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Thank you for reading my introduction to the new volume. I sincerely appreciate you continued support of my book. I hope you all know how much I love reading all of your comments. And thank you to everyone that has given me gifts throughout this entire process.
There will continue to be daily updates to the book with at least two chapters or more added every day. I will continue to work hard for all of you very single day so that you can get these regular updates and so that you can enjoy the story that I have to tell.
I would also appreciate it very much if you would all check out some of my other books. Which, as of today, include The Unknown Princess, Rescuing His Captive Mate / Saving The Future Luna, The Hunter Becomes The Hunted, A Wave Of Desire (BL), and My New Life In The Kingdom Of Wolves.
I also have several more ideas that will be coming soon, there will be more shifter type of books from me but also some other books that I am hoping will push the confines of the genre’s parameters, just like I tried to do with the series. I hope you will look out for and read those books when they come out as well. And please, leave comments to let me know what you think. I try to do my best to improve my writing based on the feedback and comments that I get. I would love to craft a story that as many people as possible can enjoy.
Thank you, all of you.
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Riviana
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I felt like I was busier than ever. I didn’t know where my time went or how I managed to always have something to do. Wasn’t there ever a point when my work could be done, and I could just take a break?
I have to say, being a Goddess and a Queen wasn’t the easiest thing in the world. It wasn’t really the Goddess part, that didn’t really change much. No, it was the Queen business that kept me busy. Every day I had to review things that had to do with the new ‘kingdom’ that I was running, and it was seemingly endless.
Honestly, I feel like I had rushed the creation of my kingdom. I was a little overzealous at first after having spent so much time with Aunt Glory and Athair m貌r in the Fae kingdom. I wanted to prove that I was worthy of the title of queen and that I actually had the right to be leading my people.
In the beginning, I am sure that I fucked up a lot of things. I was also certain that not everyone was as happy with me being the queen and imposing new laws, they might have seemed supportive and happy about it, but I think that was just because they were, literally, unable to oppose me.
I feel like I had ended up ruining a lot of lives in the beginning of my reign of power. And ever since then, I have been working to correct the errors that I have made. Not to get too specific about some of these things, but I was unfair to some of the Alphas that came to me about disputes. I didn’t listen to them at the time and blindly, and naively, told them to get along with each other.
With all of the things that I have been through, I should know more than almost anyone that you can’t just give that order and make it come true. That was a stupid ideal of mine and I needed to open my eyes and see the world for what it truly was.
Thankfully, I did see the errors before it got to be too late. I have since worked more on how my world would be run. I let the people give me an opinion of how they thought things should be, and I corrected all the things that I messed up. I also worked more on what it was that I had missed out on.
Over the last few years, I have nearly finalized the structure with which my kingdom is governed. I had worked out the checks and balances system that is put in place for the purpose of keeping things fair. I have redesignated my council as a parliament type of system that would meet to discuss the functionality of the kingdom.
I was so glad that we didn’t need to create a single universal money system for my kingdom. Since my ‘people’ were spread out all over the world, we couldn’t use a single type of money. Especially since we were still hiding our existence from the humans. No, we just needed to use our own ‘local’ currency, whatever one that might be.
I wasn’t fully done yet, there was a lot of fine tuning to do, but I was happy to say that my Kingdom was at least functional and semi sufficient. Most people would argue that it was more than semi sufficient, but I was being slightly pessimistic right now. Better that than seeing it through rose colored glasses all the time.
“Hahh!” I sighed as I set aside my pen, having just signed the last document that was in front of me.
“Have you finished now, my Queen?” Roisin, my personal attendant, asked me the moment that I seemed to be taking a slight break.
“Yes, I am finally done with all of this.” I was stretching my arms out and I could feel all the tension and stress that I had been under.
