Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“Well, there is one other thing.” I did my best to smirk at the two people in the mirror.
“What? Nothing else bad I hope.” Trevor was nervous now.
“Well, it’s not the right timing with what’s going on, but Riviana is pregnant again.”
“Wow, that has to be hard on you right now.” Trevor got that right.
“How many?” That was the first thing that Gloriana wanted to know first.
“Triplets.”
“DAMN!”
“Oh my!” They both exclaimed at the same time.
“I need to protect them and Riviana. I need to wake them up. I need to make sure that my entire family comes back together and that we all stay together from now on. I don’t want to lose my babies, but I definitely don’t want to lose my Little Bunny. I need her, I can’t live without her. She is my life.” I lifted my head and looked at Trevor since he was the one that I had known that longest. “I know what my mom felt like back then, Trev. I know what it is that made her go into that state.”
“Yeah, I know man. I feel that way too.” He smiled at Gloriana, feeling an intense love for her like I felt for my Little Bunny.
“We will be in touch soon, Joaquin.” Gloriana tried to smile but failed.
‘There, the calls are over.’ I thought the words to myself as I ended the mirror call. Thank the goddess that they were both going to help me.. I just hope that they find something.
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Riviana
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I was just sitting there, waiting for the other me to start what she called: the next part of this whole thing. She had gone as far as leaning into the fire and burning the two of us to make me comply with her, but now she was just sitting here and staring at me. What was she playing at? Why was she doing this?
And to top it all off, the other me was wearing a very smug and sly look on her face. It was annoying me and pissing me off so much that I just wanted to hit her.
This was not like me, though. I didn’t usually think about hitting people and causing them pain. OK, I have executed people. I have gone to war. Twice. I have stood by while others were executed. I had done a lot and yet, at the same time, I had not done enough.
There were a lot of bad things that I didn’t know about, yet I allowed them to happen. And the flip side of that was the fact that I had personally done a lot of bad things to people. Did that make me a bad person? Did that make me evil? Was I a corrupted leader that shouldn’t be leading my people?
While these thoughts went through my head, I started to panic. If these were indeed true facts, if they were what I was really like, then what kind of person was I? I needed to find the answer to that before anything else. I didn’t care if the other me went on right now or not, this was more important to me.
“Good.” The other me spoke out of nowhere while I was deep in thought, and it made me jump in shock.
“Huh?” I was trying to right myself on the log when I raised myself and looked at her. I had jumped so much that I nearly fell off the seat altogether.
“I said good.” She answered with a look that was at least fifty percent more sly and smug than it had been before.
“What is good?” I asked, hoping that my anger at her wasn’t showing too much at the moment.
“I am referring to your thought process, Riviana. That is a good direction to be moving in.”
Dammit! I had forgotten that she knew what I was thinking. That was annoying. UGH! That means that she knows all the mean thoughts that I have had about her since this whole thing started. Great, that was not good. What if she decides to get angry with me?
“If I was going to get angry with you, Riviana, I already would have. I am trying to help you. This is a place that you need to be. Trust me when I say that when you leave here, you will be thanking me.”
“For some reason, I don’t really see that being a possibility. I mean, forgive me for saying this, but you’ve been a shitty host and you have been quite cruel with me.”
“I have only done what needed to be done. Nothing more and nothing less. This has all been a necessity, Riviana. You know, there truly is a purpose for what I have done here.”
The other me had the audacity to sound as if I had hurt her feelings or something like that. It wasn’t like she was the one that was having everything she had ever done thrown back into her face and being told to look at all the repercussions that her actions have had on those around her. Nope, that lovely little bit of cruelty and torture was reserved all for me.
“Are you done with your little rant inside your head there? If so, we can get a move on to the next stage of why you are here and help you to move on. Just remember that the longer you are here, the more time that passes in the land of the living. I am sure that you want to get back sooner rather than later.” It looked to me like the other me didn’t care too much one way or the other if I finished with my little freak out or not. She seemed to be enjoying herself.
“How much time is passing there? How long have I been in this place? And how much time has passed for my family back home? What do they think has happened to me?”
Her words did strike a chord with me though. I didn’t want to be here any longer than I needed to be. And I didn’t know how long I had been here already. What if it had been months or years already? What if they thought that I was dead, and they buried me alive? What was really going to happen to me?
“Would you like me to show you how your family is doing?” The other me smirked and I didn’t know if she was going to show me something that was real or not. “Do not be so skeptical, Riviana. I am not going to lie to you. It would be pointless for me to lie to you anyway. I am you, after all.”
“Fine, then I want to see them. Please show them to me.”
“Of course.”
The other me smiled and once again took a handful of dust to throw into the fire. The usual scene happened again with the fire responding and making a screen for me to see the people inside the flames.
There they were. I could see Joaquin as well as my children. There were Reagan, Rika, and Talia. I missed them so much.
