Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
I knew that she missed her mother. I knew that she would want to stay here and watch her the entire time if she could. However, if my Little Bunny was going to be in this place for a while, then I would need to keep Talia, as well as Reagan and Rika, away from this screen. I didn’t want them to see what was happening in the background. Talia might not have seen too much yet, but I didn’t need her to see it at all. I wanted to protect her little mind. She probably didn’t understand what was happening yet, but that didn’t mean that she needed to be exposed to it all so young. I had to preserve her innocence for the time being. Forever if I could.
“OK Talia, let’s make a deal here. I promise to let you come back to see Mommy when she is on the screen at just one time. But I also need you to not look at anything else that is happening in the background. There is a lot of bad stuff in there and you don’t need to see it.”
“I know, Daddy. I saw it. I just ignored it. That place has bad things happening to bad people. It’s the part of the underwear world where all the bad people go. I don’t know why Mommy is in the bad part. She is a good person. But I know that Mommy will be back and that is all that matters to me.”
“Thank you, sweetheart.” I hugged her to me, burying her face in my chest as I did so. “Thank you for being such an amazing little girl.”
“I’m just me, Daddy, nothing more and nothing less.” She smiled at me then turned her head toward the screen, though she couldn’t see it at the moment. “Please follow my mommy. Please show my daddy where my mommy is and stay with her until she comes home.” I knew she was talking to the someone, or something, that was on the other side of the door.
“Thank you, baby girl. Thank you for doing this for me.” I couldn’t keep the tears out of my eyes as I spoke to her. And even then, one of them rolled down my cheek. I was literally crying in front of my daughter.
“Don’t cry, Daddy. I know that you miss Mommy as much as I do. I cried too. In the beginning I cried a lot. I know it’s hard and we all miss her. But she will be home soon and then we can all hug her and feel her hug us back.” At that moment my adorable little Talia wiped away my tears and hugged me again. I didn’t know how to respond so I just held her for a few moments.
After she left me, everyone else hugged her too. Wesley, Eve, Noah, Carter, Juniper, Trevor, Gloriana, Valerian, everyone that came with us all hugged her as she left the room. And right before she left, I saw that the twins went with her. They truly did revere her. They were like her own personal servants now or something.
“Joaquin, I think we need to watch what is happening now.” Noah called out to me as he looked at the magical screen that was still there. I took his words to heart and moved immediately. I spun and watched the images moving before my eyes.
They weren’t moving at hyper speed now. Nope, now it seemed that everything was moving normally. Nothing was being sped up to hurry us along to where she was. That was because this was where my Little Bunny was.
I saw her then. My wife. My mate. My everything. She was standing there with five other people. There was a very large man, even taller than Trevor. Another man that was maybe my height. And, of course, three identical little boys.
The boys looked like they were around Talia’s age right then. They were maybe three or four years old. It was kind of hard to tell since they looked like they kept changing as I watched them. Sometimes they appeared that age, sometimes younger. And other times they looked older. And all of that happened in the span of maybe five seconds. I could only imagine what it was like for my Little Bunny to look at them and see them constantly.
“Riviana?” I called out to her, walking toward the screen just a little more. “Oh, Riviana, how I have missed you.” I wanted to walk through the screen to her, but I knew that wasn’t possible. If it were, Talia would have told me about it. And I would definitely have been on that side in a heartbeat if I was able to be with my wife again.
Not to mention, I would have leapt over there to protect her from those two men. I mean, what was my sweet, adorable, crazy, insane, beautiful Little Bunny thinking right now? How could she be gallivanting all across hell with other men? Who were they? Why were they with her? What was the meaning of this?
“Joaquin?” Someone called out to me but I ignored them. “JOAQUIN!” they called me again, louder this time. “CALM DOWN, CUJO!” This time I heard Noah’s voice and turned to look at him.
“What?” I snapped at him.
“You’re shifting into your Lycan form. You need to calm down.” He pointed at my face so I lifted my right hand and felt my cheek. Yup, sure enough, it was covered in thick fur.
“Sorry.” I slumped my shoulders.
“Just calm down, Joaquin. It’s fine. You can see her now. You can probably hear her too. This is a good development. So just calm down and let’s see what she is going to do now.” Noah was speaking in a calm, soothing voice.
“Yeah, Joaquin’s Pieces, it’s time for us to watch the Riviana Show.” Juniper smiled. She was on the verge of tears as well, but that just showed me how much she missed her friend. She wanted to know what was going on as well, but I was stealing the spotlight here.
“Yeah, let’s see what my Little Bunny is up to now.” They had both used nicknames with me just now, so of course I was going to use the nickname for my wife as well. They all knew what it was anyway.. It was far from being a secret.
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Riviana
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We hadn’t been in here for long. We were all still, literally, standing right at the place that we had fallen into the Hall of Damnation. And now that we were here, I felt like someone was watching me.
I hadn’t felt it right when we landed in this place, but I felt it now. Maybe there were other guards watching me. Maybe it was the eyes of those being imprisoned in this place. Maybe it was just my imagination. I wasn’t completely sure of what was the exact cause, but I knew that it was making my skin crawl.
“D..do either of you feel someone watching us?” Rudy asked me in his slightly nervous voice.
“Yes. There are definitely eyes on us.” Alexio spoke curtly and in a very stern manner. It was definitely reminding me of the military men that I had known in person or seen in the movies.
“Who could it be?” I asked as I looked around us.
“It’s a friend.” One of the boys said as he pointed at a blank space on the wall behind us.
“What are you saying, Zachary?” I knelt in front of him.
“He said it was a friend.”
“Yes, Zander, I heard that. I just didn’t understand what he meant.” I looked at him as he came to stand next to his brother.
“It is hard to say, Mommy. We don’t know the words. But there is a friend here. He can see us. I can feel him and almost see him.”
“Zayden?” I looked at him with my head tilted as I tried to figure it all out. “What is it that you can see?”
“I don’t know, Mommy. I just know that it is a friend. It was sent here by another friend.”
“OK.” I nodded at him and the other two, even though I didn’t quite understand what it was that he was trying to tell me. “As long as we’re not in danger from whatever it is, then I think that we are going to be fine.”
I stood up after that and looked around the area that we were in. I had already seen the horrors of this place, and I knew that the boys had as well. I wish I could? have kept them from seeing it. Kept them from being corrupted by it all. And I just hoped beyond anything and everything, that they would not remember any of this when they were born. I hoped that the only thing that remained with them when they were born was going to be the intense connection that we already had.
