Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“Where is everyone? Where did the murder take place? Where do we need to go now? Did I open the door in the wrong place?” She was still so worried and high strung.
“I never said that there was a murder. I said that we needed to investigate this place. And that we will do. We will thoroughly investigate this view. We will thoroughly investigate the food that is in this bag here. And we will thoroughly investigate each other at some point tonight. Though that will most likely wait until we get to our hotel.”
“What?” She was glaring at me, anger clearly visible on her face. “You lied to me?”
“I did not lie to you. I simply did not tell you all the details. I was told that this was one of the most beautiful places in all of Wales. So, naturally, I thought that it would make a great place for a date.”
“Joaquin, we’re in the middle of an investigation. We cannot be having a date.” She was so pissed off that her face was turning red.
“Riviana, you need a break. You are burnt out. We all are. We need a night to relax. Now, we’re going to enjoy this date and we will be back to work tomorrow. That is the end of the discussion.” I was being firm with her. I was a king too, dammit. That meant that I had authority over everyone but her.
“Joaquin?!” She still wasn’t agreeing with me for a moment, so I set the bags down and walked toward her. I took her in my arms and hugged her tightly.
“Riviana, my love, we need a break. Everyone agrees. You’ve been running nonstop for days on end. If you keep this up, you’re going to miss something. I don’t want us to fail in this case, so we need to be at our sharpest. Take this night off with me, Riviana. Take this night to reset yourself.”
“Hahh.” She sighed and wrapped her arms around me. “Fine. I guess you are right. I need to take a break. But only for tonight. We need to get back to work first thing tomorrow. There are going to be more murders soon, and I don’t want miss a single shred of evidence this time.”
“I know, Little Bunny. Just for tonight.” At least she had agreed. That was one step in the right direction.
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Joaquin
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I was able to get Riviana to calm down and sit with me. We were on a rugged cliff overlooking the water. It was peaceful and there was no one else in sight. It was just the two of us, a blanket, and our food. This here, this was the type of date that I loved to go on with my wife.
It was peaceful. It was romantic. And most of all, we didn’t have to worry about people interrupting us. We were able to just sit back and relax while we tried to unwind.
The meal had been prepared for us by Telyn, who was quickly becoming an indispensable member of our traveling team. She made delicious food and was so helpful to us all. Sometimes, I felt like the girl did too much. I know that she was just eager to be useful though. And she just wanted to get out of her small town. There were talks of bringing her home with us as a sort of student abroad thing. That or inviting her to stay with us while she attends university after graduation. There was a lot that we needed to figure out about that, but I wasn’t going to ignore someone that was so keen to help us out.
While Riviana and I ate the food, we talked about a lot of different things. We talked about how we had changed as people over the years and how the world itself had changed. We talked about how, even after two decades of knowing each other, we hadn’t really changed much at all. She looked like she was maybe twenty-two or twenty-three instead of the eighteen I met her at. And I apparently looked no older than twenty-nine or thirty, instead of the twenty-five I had been when I met her. However, she was thirty-eight and I was forty-five. So much time had passed for us, and we were still so very much in love.
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Once the food was gone, we just sat there, staring out at the sea as we held onto each other. The peace of the scenery and the beauty of the world around us almost made me forget that there were people in our world being murdered every five days. The peace and tranquility of it all was just that powerful.
“Thank you, Joaquin.” Riviana whispered next to me. We were so close, and my hearing was so good, that I heard the softly spoken words with ease.
“For what, Little Bunny?” I turned and looked into her eyes, and what lovely eyes they were.
“For making me take a break. I needed this. I didn’t know how much I needed this until you made me relax. I was running on fumes before, but now I think I will be fully recharged tomorrow.
“I am just glad that you were able to calm down. And that you are not mad at me for tricking you. I knew that you needed this, and I just wanted to do what was best for you.” I smiled at her, unable to stop the love from overflowing inside of me.
“I think I am ready to go to the hotel now, if you are, that is.” I saw desire, passion, and need in her eyes.
“Like you have to ask.” I laughed at her. “I have been dying to get my hands on you.” I was on my feet and pulling her up with me in no time at all. “Come on, Little Bunny, let’s go get some privacy.”
“Ha ha. You’re such a horndog, Joaquin.” She wasn’t wrong though.
I pulled up a picture of the hotel, and the surrounding area. We picked a place to make the door appear and then stepped through it. That was all that it took for us to go from the coast to the castle style hotel. Honestly, it probably used to be a castle of sorts, but it was fully restored and modernized. That was a good thing though. I knew that both me and Riviana would prefer a place with indoor plumbing. If they didn’t have that, she would probably murder me and blame it on one of those serial killers.
Checking into the room was smooth and easy. We were able to head straight up to the Victorian styled suite and it was actually really nice. It was still smaller than we would have liked, but it was bigger than the room we had been staying in, so that was a plus.
The first thing that I wanted us to do when we got to the room, was to take a bath. We had been sitting at the edge of the cliff, even that high up, the spray from the waves, and the briny air had gotten all over us. I knew that Riviana, like me, would want to get that smell off of us. We might not notice the smell on us while at the seaside, but we would notice it here.
I went into the bathroom and started the water almost immediately. I wanted to get this night moving in the direction that I wanted it to go in sooner rather than later. When the water was ready, I went to get my Little Bunny out of the other room. She was still standing in front of the window, where I had last seen her. She was staring out at the national park surrounding the hotel. It was pretty, and it made me think a lot about the area where our home was. We would often look out the window in our room and just water the scenery. It was peaceful.
“Come on, Little Bunny.” I took her hand and started to pull her toward the bathroom. “The water is ready.”
“Yeah, OK.” She was mentally exhausted. It was so obvious to see. She may be relaxing now, but it was going to take some true relaxation and good times to get her mind to reset itself.
Once we were in the bathroom, I started to strip the clothes off of my Little Bunny. I always enjoyed this part. It was like unwrapping a present every time. Even after all these years, it was a present that I was extremely interested in. She was sexy, beautiful, gorgeous, and I would never not look forward to the moments that we were alone like this. Now, five years from now, twenty more years from now, even five hundred years from now, I would always want her and no one else. She was all that my body needed and all that my body craved.
With her completely stripped of clothes, it was time for me to strip. I took mine off a lot faster and with a lot more impatience. I wanted to be in that water holding my mate in my arms.
“The tub is a little small.” My Little Bunny commented as she looked at the water.
“It’s plenty big enough.” I grinned at her. “You will just need to sit on my lap.”
“Of course I will.” She rolled her eyes at me. “And you are just so broken up about that, aren’t you?”
I climbed into the water and reached out to her. She didn’t hesitate at all as she stepped in after me. Gently, she settled herself against my chest so that I could hug her from behind.