Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“They are perfect.” Wesley cooed.
“This is a wonderful day.” Samuel hugged my mom as he looked at the pictures on the screen. All of them, our entire family that was in that room, minus some siblings, were so happy with what they had seen just now. To see that much love and happiness for your babies was amazing. To me it meant that they were going to have an amazing life. They were going to be so loved.
Finally, after watching them all coo and fawn over the pictures of the boys, I felt like it was time to move on to the next stage. Only, someone else had thought of it too, and apparently just a moment or two before me.
“OK, Mom, go ahead and play the video.” My Little Bunny encouraged them to see the rest of the news. At the same moment, I flipped back to the messages and pressed send so that everyone would be getting the video now.
Sometime very soon, people were going to start bombarding my phone with calls and text messages. They were going to be asking so many questions. They would want to know what happened. They would want to know how we had four babies now when Riviana only had triplets in the ultrasounds. And there had been a lot of ultrasounds.
I could imagine how Juniper was going to react. And let’s not forget Noah and Nikki. The two of them were going to go nuts over all of this. And Acacia, she was from a family full of multiples. Everyone that we knew, specifically in our inner circle, they were going to be happy but oh so surprised.
Honestly, I couldn’t wait to see everyone’s reactions. That was why I had wanted them all here for this. Riviana and I wanted to see their faces. We wanted to see how they all reacted to the knowledge that there was a surprise baby. It was going to be so sweet and probably a little funny. I was waiting with bated breath. It wasn’t going to be a long video, but it felt like this was taking forever.
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Joaquin
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I could hear the sound of my Little Bunny’s voice coming from the other side of the call. It was a little awkward, hearing it like that. I mean, she was right here with me but I was getting her voice through the call.
Well, that wasn’t what I needed to focus on right now. I needed to see their reactions. We were slowly adding the babies to Riviana’s arms so that she would be holding them all. And when she had all three boys, I sat next to her with Zaley. I was the one to introduce her in the video, telling them that she was our little surprise.
“OH MY GODDESS!” Wesley sounded like he was about to fall down in his shock.
“EEEEEEEEE!” Eve didn’t seem like she was able to talk at all.
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“WHAT!?” Samuel was just as surprised as Wesley was.
“JOAQUIN! WHAT IN THE WORLD…!?” Mom was smiling from ear to ear.
“A SISTER TOO!” Reagan was excited.
“YAY! ANOTHER LITTLE GIRL!” I knew that Rika would be happy. They didn’t want to be too outnumbered by their brothers.
“I knew there was another one.” Now Talia’s words were the only ones that threw me off.
“Talia, sweetheart, what did you mean you knew that there was another one?” my Little Bunny had caught that too, huh.
“Well, I knew there was another baby, but when I was contacting the spirits they said the fourth baby didn’t have a soul. I thought that she wasn’t going to make it. They told me that the other baby was closer to the underworld than she was to our world. I..I didn’t want to tell you Mommy, because I didn’t want you to be sad. But, I..I prayed and cried everyday. I asked if someone would give that baby a soul. And, well, when you came back, I felt like she might be better, so I just kept praying and crying for her on my own. I didn’t want my mommy to be sad just after she got home.” She hung her head like she had done something wrong. “I am sorry Mommy. I should have told you. I should have let you know.” She was on the verge of tears and that nearly broke me.
“No, Talia, it’s OK.” I tried to soothe her as I watched Eve hugging her to give her some love. “Mommy and I were very happy last night. When we found out about Zaley we were overjoyed. She was our little surprise bundle. And you were the only one that could have kept the secret. I am so glad that you did.”
“Daddy is right, Talia. When Griffin told us about the other baby, we were all surprised, but not in a bad way. We were happy and excited, and it turned into such an amazing night. Without you having kept the secret for us, we never would have been able to experience this. Thank you, Talia, for letting us be surprised.” Finally, after hearing her mommy’s words, Talia started to calm down.
“Y..you really are not mad? Y..you mean it?” She was smiling slightly, almost like she was nervous about it.
“Yeah, we mean it, Talia. We are not mad about it at all. The only thing that matters is that they are all here and they are all healthy. Want to see them right now? They’re sleeping.”
“Yeah!”
“Yes!”
“Uh huh!”
“Can we?”
“I want to!”
“Show me the babies!”
“Yes!” All seven people on the call started to talk at once. I guess they really wanted to see the babies.
I rose to my feet and walked over to the bassinets. They were in order from first born to last born. I showed them Zachary and slowly moved the video down to Zander, Zayden, and then Zaley. They were all there, all peaceful and calm.
“They are so cute, Daddy.” Talia called out. “I am so happy.”
“So are we, baby girl. So are we.”
At that moment, my phone started to blow up. I was getting messages and people were all calling me nonstop. It was a little much to deal with while on the video call though. So, I knew that I needed to end the call and just tell them to come and see us.
“I am getting so many more messages right now. Why don’t you all finish getting ready so that you can come up here and see them in person. We will see you soon.” I wrapped up the call and waited for their goodbyes.
