Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“You found your mate, Lyssa. So, who was it?” I think that I was way more excited than the others. I mean, this was what every woman wanted, wasn’t it? They wanted to find that other half to themselves. And, here, one of my best friends was the first of us to find a mate.
“W..well, I felt it when we met with the German students today.”
“But it didn’t happen when we met them the other day?” Alexa asked Lyssa, to which she shook her head no in response.
“Hmm.” I thought about it. “Well, that means that Gunnar, Clovio and Aloisius are not your mate. Assuming that it’s a man, that means that Warrick is your mate.”
“Or it could be Hede or Hedi.” Ilana laughed. “There is no saying that you can’t have a same sex relationship.”
“I don’t want one. No offense to my dad and papa, but I want a man, not a woman.” Lyssa laughed as if even she thought that was funny. “Then again, it would serve me right. Fate would do that to me, wouldn’t it?” We were all laughing now.
“Whomever fate chose for you, Lyssa, I know that you will be happy.” I smiled at her and then checked the time on my phone. “We need to get going. We have class in five minutes. This works out, though. Warrick is in our class, we will know if it is him.” I grabbed Lyssa’s hand then and pulled her along behind me as I made my way to the proper lecture hall in the correct building.
I think that I could confirm right then and there that it was Warrick that Lyssa had mated with. When we sat down in the room, just seconds before Alexa and Ilana had reached us, Clovio sat next to me and Warrick sat next to Lyssa.
“Hallo, there.” Warrick, with an even thicker accent than Clovio, smiled at Lyssa.
“H..hello.” Lyssa was grinning like she was excited and nervous at the same time.
“You know, Rika, my friend here has not stopped talking about your friend since he met her earlier. I think he likes her.” Clovio whispered into my ear as we watched the two of them act so nervous around each other. Alexa and Ilana sat in the row behind us, presumably to watch the show of me and Clovio and Lyssa and Warrick. They also had the rest of the German students sitting near them as well.
“I..I think that you’re right.” I nervously whispered back to him as I finally took my eyes off of my friend’s blushing face. The only problem was, Clovio was really close to me and the moment that I saw his handsome eyes looking at me, I blushed as well.
“Maybe we should all go on a date together. You and your friend Lyssa can show me and Warrick around the city. We don’t know where anything is yet.” At that moment, Clovio smiled so handsomely that I found it almost impossible to tell him no.
“Y..yeah, I would like that.” I agreed almost instantly, only hoping after the fact that Lyssa wouldn’t object.
“Great, we can go out this weekend. I can’t wait to see what you show me around the city. It will be fun.”
Throughout the rest of the day, Clovio and the others were there to talk with us, walk us to and from our class and lunch. And just to hang out with us in general. It was nice, honestly. Having a guy around to talk to that wasn’t someone that I had grown up with. I liked it a lot.
Now, I just needed to not let my brother know about this. I didn’t want him to start a fight with me about meeting some guy and going out with him already. It wasn’t like I had planned it or anything, but he was overly protective, and overly stupid at times.
Then again, when I saw him walking through the campus all that day, I saw that he was talking to Armina. The two of them were looking rather chummy together. Maybe, just maybe, I would be able to have my date with Clovio and not have him acting like it was the end of the world.
I could hope at least. And if I managed it, then I would be able to live my life as if it were my own. No Mom, Dad or Reagan telling me what I could and could not do. Huh, maybe the fact that our parents were busy and away was actually going to be a good thing. For me, at the very least.
I went home that day with nothing but good thoughts in my head.
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Riviana
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Some of the most recent murders had happened where they all started at. That led me to believe that they might be following a pattern for the order in which they were killing these people in. The very first murders happened in France followed by Ireland, China and Austria. At least that was what our data was showing us. Then again, I am very sure that there are some murders that just haven’t been reported to us or the other authorities yet. There is an incomplete pattern with the murders. Some of the countries seemed to have been skipped over in the pattern.
I mean, I guess I could be wrong about the whole pattern thing. There was no reason for me to think that they killed in a specific order just because some of the locations seemed to come in a specific order. That could have just been one of these specific killers. Maybe he thrived on routine more than the others did.
Anyway, among those killed this time around, the locations included Wales, France, China, and Laos. Wales had come up before, but not until the twentieth of July. That was on what should have been the third cycle of murders. And France was one of the countries that seemed to repeat way more than any of the others. And that led me to suspect that there was a killer that was working almost exclusively within that country.
With the possibilities that so many of these people were killing and the only guidelines that they were following were for the method of the killing and the frequency of it, there was no way for us to pinpoint anything specific to these people. There was no narrowing down their gender, species, race, or anything at all. We didn’t even know if these killers personally knew all of their victims or if they chose them at random.
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For now though, the group and I were travelling, magically of course, to Wales to see the site of one of the most recent murders, as well as the site of two previous murders. The first stop was the small village of Clannorenn. What was odd, is that most of these murders, aside from the ones in London and Paris, all happened in small villages or on the outskirts of medium sized villages.
It was possible that the killers were targeting these smaller villages because they knew that most packs, clans and covens tended to stay away from the larger groups of people. Aside from us oddballs in the United States, they were more shy and reserved. Then again. We just didn’t have that luxury where I was from. There were small towns, but the big cities were never far away.
The door that we walked through, the one that I had made to magically appear in the local Alpha’s home, appeared in the morning back in Colorado, but now that we were in Wales it was approaching late afternoon. We had left around nine in the morning, but it was four in the afternoon when we walked through the door.
“Queen Riviana, King Joaquin, thank you for coming.” The Alpha, who was looking at the door with shock and awe, was greeting us like he was being saved from some deadly fate. In truth, he might see it that way. With how his people were being killed around here and all of that not so good stuff.
“It is our pleasure.” I nodded my head at the man who had literally fallen to his knees before me, his eyes glistening with unshed tears.
“We are happy to help, Cadwal. Please, sit with us and tell us everything that you know.” Joaquin, wanting to move things forward, urged the man to rise from the floor and explain things to us.
This Alpha, Cadwal of the Northern Wales Pack, was the Alpha for two of the three victims that were killed in this small country. Fun fact, this entire country could fit inside of my home state of Colorado thirteen times. They were so small compared to Colorado that they only had three different packs in the entire country. Whereas we had dozens in Colorado alone. It was a real eye opener when you compare things like this.
“Yes, thank you. I will explain everything that I know right away.” Thankfully, Cadwal’s genuflecting and over the top attitude was put to rest and he started to explain things to us.
Joaquin and I sat facing him, while the others stood behind us. Vincent and Gabriel were taking notes on everything, writing it all down for later reflection. The reason two of them did this was because they might have different interpretations of what was being said.
Together, we all listened to him explain who found the two bodies that were in his territory and what the state the bodies were in when they were found. He explained as much as he could. He also went into detail often so that he could describe it all accurately.
