Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
We all arrived in a large hall that had been prepared for us to conduct the interviews. Cadwal and the others had definitely worked hard to accommodate me. That was when I finally understood what it was that Joaquin had been trying to tell me. They were intimidated by me. They were afraid to be normal around me. And that was going to hinder me a little bit. If I didn’t change things a little bit moving forward, then we were never going to get things accomplished.
While Shawn, Dietrich, Shane and David interviewed the witnesses that were called in, Joaquin and I listened in. I heard the same things over and over. No one really knew what happened. No one had seen anyone that was out of the ordinary. There were no suspicious people. There was nothing at all that they would have suspected was wrong. Not a single one of them was lying. And not a single one of them was able to give us any information at all.
It got to the point where I didn’t need to listen anymore and I started to brainstorm some ideas on how I was able to get past the whole 鈥榪ueentimidation’ effect I was going to have on the rest of the Alphas and witnesses. Of course, 鈥榪ueentimidation’ is a new word that I am using to describe my naturally intimidating queenliness.
I needed to find a solution quickly. If I didn’t, then I was going to end up ruining this investigation. And that was something that I refused to do. I didn’t want to make the others work harder for me, and I refused to leave the investigation. So, that would just mean that I would be hiding who I truly was.
I think that I had come up with a pretty good plan, all things considered. When I left this manor and traveled to the next one, I would inform the Alpha that the 鈥榪ueen and king’ had to return home for business. In their place would be their representatives. These representatives would be able to act on the full authority of the queen and would be reporting back to me regularly.
I had a feeling if people thought they were just talking to an investigator rather than the queen, they would be able to handle it all much easier. I mean, it was worth a shot at least. And if it didn’t work out at the next location, then I could try something else when we traveled out of Wales.
When we returned to our rooms that night, I even told Joaquin what I had planned to do. I wanted him to know that once we left here, we would actually get a break from being the king and queen. However, to do that, we needed to stop being Riviana and Joaquin.
I guess we also needed to think of different identities to use while we were travelling. We would also have to forge the documents in a hurry. I mean, it was a good thing that I was able to use magic and that I could just, you know, magically make all the travel papers and documents that I wanted. No one would ever know or suspect a thing.
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Riviana
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It was a little weird getting used to the time change that came with travelling, but we had done it before so it wasn’t as bad as it could be. We got up in the morning when the sun was rising, which was technically too early even though it was midday back home. I didn’t mind the fact that we got up so early though, it allowed us to eat and be ready much sooner. The more time that we had at the crime scene the better.
Also, if possible, I wanted to get through all of the Welsh crime scenes today. If I could manage that, then I would be able to go wherever there was a fresh scene tomorrow. There was, undoubtedly, going to be more murders tonight. If they stuck to the same plan that they had been using for the last two months or so, then they would definitely be striking again tonight.
I felt horrible right now. Knowing that I was not able to stop more people from dying. People that I knew were going to die painful and brutal deaths. I wanted to just find these people today and put an end to it here and now. I didn’t want anymore people to suffer at all. But I didn’t have enough information to find the killers. I didn’t know what to do or how to find them.
When we were all ready to go, Cadwal had his Beta, Alan, pull two cars around. Together, the two of them drove us to the site of the murder that happened five days ago. They said that we were lucky. August is typically a rainy month, but there hadn’t been any rain since the murder that had taken place on the nineteenth. That meant that, aside from animal interference, the crime scene would be perfectly preserved for us. Nothing would have been washed away or have been destroyed. At least, that was what we hoped.
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This victim had been killed behind an old and abandoned church. The building was dilapidated and looked like a strong wind would completely destroy it, yet it was still standing somehow.
“Llewellyn was found around the back.” Cadwal was leading the way. “His body was laid out beneath the tower with the cross on it.” Joaquin and I were right behind him as he rounded the building.
I thought that we were going to need to search for the clues when we got here. Instead, we were nearly overwhelmed by them the moment that we entered the scene. To be fair, I had smelled the blood the moment we exited the cars, but that could have just been the old blood. I did not expect there to still be such a thick coating of all that blood covering the surfaces of almost everything in the area.
There was blood all over the grass, the small grouping of trees that was behind the church, the rocks that were there for either decoration or because they were just naturally there, and it was also all over the back of the building. I didn’t know if the blood had actually sprayed like that or if the killer had done their best to make this horrific and gory display.
“Oh my Goddess.” Dietrich gasped when he saw the scene that had been waiting for us.
“Yes, this one was a lot more brutal than the other scene that was in my territory.” Cadwal looked truly saddened by what he was seeing in this area. “The person, or people, that is behind this atrocity have absolutely no respect for my people.”
“This group of people has no respect for any life, not just our people.” As I slowly started to make my way to where the body was found, I called out to Cadwal in response.
“Do you think they would do this to a human? Or do these people only hate supernatural beings?” Cadwal’s question was not at all a surprise for me. I had wondered it as well. With so many murders of nonhuman people in the last several weeks, I wasn’t certain if these people would harm a human or not. Maybe they had killed humans before my people. Maybe they wanted a bigger challenge. Maybe.
However, something deep inside of me told me that I was not likely to find a human victim. This felt personal somehow. Maybe not that they were mad at the specific victim, but that they were targeting the victims because of what they were because of some personal vendetta. They were either a group of self loathing super naturals, or they were a group of highly skilled and dangerous humans.
I could hear the others moving around the scene behind me. Personally, I wanted to see where the body was. I needed to see if there was anything that might possibly have been missed. And I knew that the spot right in the middle of all the blood, where there was still a large pool of the stuff, was where the body had been laying when it was found.
“Dietrich, would you mind investigating the body with me later, if it has not yet been cremated, that is.” I had a sudden thought, something that I needed to check out before I moved onto the other victims.
“Of course, Riviana.” His answer was positive, but his voice felt so sad and heartbroken at the sight of this murder. He was a vampire, but he hated killing unless it was necessary. And that meant that the spilling of this blood and the loss of this life was hard for him.
What I saw when I made my way over to where the body had been, was that there was no way the arterial spray could have gone as far as the blood had been spread. That meant that the killer had specifically tried to make as much of a mess with it as possible. It almost looked like they had used a bucket to spread it around. Just what was it that they were trying to do here?
“Have any of you seen anything that is of importance so far?” I called out to the others as I looked around the area that I was in. I saw that Joaquin, Vincent, Gabriel, Shawn, Dietrich, Shane and David were hard at work combing the area.
“Not yet.”
“No.”
“Nope.”
“Nothing.”
“Nada.”
“Still looking.”
“Sorry, but no.” They all answered me at basically the same time. Well, this was a waste so far. Still, we had only just gotten here, and I was determined to see this through. I wouldn’t leave until we found something more.
“I need something. I need to see more.” I was whispering to myself as I looked all around. I knew that everyone was able to hear me, but I didn’t care. And while I was saying these words, I felt a small pull on my magic. Whatever was about to happen, I was going to get my wish.
