Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“There were four killed last night. Or this morning. I am not sure about the times of death.”
“Hahh.” I sighed as I thought about how many deaths there were now. With the deaths five days ago and these ones, we were up to forty-seven. And that was assuming that there were no unaccounted deaths. No vampires that just hadn’t been discovered yet.
Forty-seven lost souls. Forty-seven people that had been brutally murdered for no reason other than the fact that they were not human. So much death. So much senseless loss of life. It was sad and heartbreaking, so very heart breaking.
“Where were they, Joaquin? Where were they all killed?” I asked in as calm of a tone as I could manage.
“There were three from small villages in Scotland, Ireland and England. And one from the outskirts of Sydney, Australia. I spoke briefly with Rawlynne about the fact that they usually target small villages, but this is not the first time that they have hit larger cities. London and Paris were on the list as well, only that was usually when the vampires had been killed. Most likely because vampires tend to stick to large crowds so that they can blend in as much as possible.” Joaquin explained to me what it was that he and Rawlynne spoke about, telling me what I needed to know in the process.
I understood why Joaquin had been so surprised by the attack that was in the city. Outskirts or not, that one was closer to other people, and that means that it was possible that there might be more witnesses. That would most likely be the best place for us to investigate first.
“It’s late afternoon here. That means that it will be the middle of the night in Australia. I think we should pick one of the closer locations to go to right now, and then head over to Australia later tonight. It will be morning there then.” I was mentally calculating the time change between Wales and Australia. I needed to make sure that I had the difference correct. “We should leave the United Kingdom by no later than ten or eleven in the evening. We will then arrive in Sydney around seven or eight in the morning.”
“Well, that is definitely efficient. I know that we are taking a door over there. And that means that the plane still isn’t going to be used. I don’t even know why we brought it along.” Joaquin chuckled a little as he thought about it. “If we hurry from here, we will have a little more daylight at one of the scenes.” He was checking his watch and doing the same time calculations that I was.
“Agreed.” I stood and looked down at Joaquin. The only time that I was taller than him was when he was sitting down. “We need to gather the others and we need to make sure that Talia stays away from the scenes from now on. She can free the souls, but that is it.”
“Riviana” I heard what sounded like sorrow in Joaquin’s voice when he heard what I had to say. “You need to let Talia be part of this.”
Without pausing at all, Joaquin went on to explain to me that Talia needed to experience these things while we were around to comfort her. She was going to be facing it on her own soon enough, and we wouldn’t be there to hug her and make her feel better.
I knew that he was right. I knew that it was the way that things should be done. It’s just that, well, I didn’t relish the idea of exposing my daughter to this sort of thing. I didn’t want any of my kids to know what was going on around the world. I wanted them to be safe. Not just physically, but mentally as well. They needed that from me, didn’t they?
Perhaps they didn’t. Perhaps Joaquin was right. I should let them know what was happening and let them experience it somewhat. Not all of them though. Just Talia, Reagan and Rika. Zachary, Zander, Zayden and Zaley were all too young to know what was going on. I didn’t want to give them nightmares or anything like that. They were just babies.
“Alright, Joaquin. I hear you. I will let Talia be a part of it. As long as Alexio and Rudy are with her, that is. She needs them to watch over her. They will be the ones that she relies on in the underworld, they need to get used to it all now.”
“Agreed.” He stood then and smiled at me. “Now, let’s get going. Where are we going anyway?”
“Hmm. Do you fancy a trip to England?” I tried to laugh, but I couldn’t force it out. This was not a vacation. This was not fun at all. We had work to do, and I was getting serious about it.
Joaquin ended up calling Rawlynne and having her contact the Alpha in England for us. He sent us a picture of his office and said that he was waiting for us. I gathered everyone together and we prepared to leave, the whole large group of us. I even promised Bevin that if we needed to, we would be back to investigate more.
With that, we were off for the village of Wolfhamm in England.
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Talia
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According to my uncles, this was the fourth crime scene they were seeing today. My mom was apparently keeping them busy with their work. I understood that it was important, but I was worried that they were going to start feeling tired soon. I had actually been up longer than any of them, since I had not slept the night that I was pulled over to Wales. In Colorado time, I had been up for a day and a half already.
We traveled by door from Wales to England. We were in the southern part of the country now, in a little village called Wolfhamm. I don’t think that the people that named it were all that good at hiding what they were. That or the humans had suspicions about what lurked in the vicinity.
I knew that my mom had the Alpha warned that we were coming, and that he texted her a picture of his office. That was needed so that Mom could visualize where the door needed to appear. And it had apparently just been taken with the Alpha’s family in there with him. It was small, cute and quaint, not like the things that I was used to seeing.
The door appeared, we walked through it like we had before, and almost as soon as we started the trip from one country to another, there were screams of fear.
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“AHH! Mummy, what is going on?!”
“What is this?”
“Why is there a door?!”
“Bloody hell, that is cool.”
“What is the meaning of this?”
There were children and adults that were talking, female and male voices as well. And four out of those five voices were scared to death. Only one of them, a guy’s voice, sounded like they were excited.
The first through the door was my dad. He was the king and capable of protecting his queen. After him was my mom and then me. I think that the only reason we were going through in this order was because we were in a hurry. We needed to make sure that we got this all done as soon as possible.
“Are you the Alpha?” My dad’s voice was full of authority and power. Sometimes he was pretty cool, though I couldn’t tell him that. I was a teenage girl. He couldn’t know that I thought he was cool in any way or he would be a total embarrassment for me.
“Yes, I am Alpha Nigel! Who in the hell are you? What are you doing in my office? What is the meaning of this?” The Alpha was on his feet glaring at us all as we continued to come through the door into his office. I was just thankful that it was big enough to accommodate us, and our luggage.
“I am Joaquin Gray, Alpha King. You were told that we were coming, were you not?” That wiped the look off of Nigel’s face. He was not prepared for that.
“I thought you were coming by car. I did not think that you were coming straight into my office through a blasted door. What is going on here?”
“We do not have much daylight left to work by. We need to see the most recent crime scene. If we are going to put an end to these murders, we need to be quick about it all.” Mom stepped forward then. “I am Riviana Gray, I take it that you know what that means. We are here to work as quickly as we can. Take us to the scene immediately.” I didn’t miss the slight edge to my mom’s voice, or the fact that it rippled with power. That was a command. She needed to bring these people into line right away.