Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“A..ar..are these people going to our home? A..are they going to hurt Reagan and Rika? O..o..or are they going after Zachary, Zander, Zayden, Zaley? I..is our family in danger?” She looked like she was about to panic. I knew that she was worried for her siblings the same as I was. “I..is Lola, Nona, Papa, and M贸ra铆 in danger?”
“Honey, we’ve all been in danger since these murders started. We’re in no more danger now than we were then. Please, don’t worry. We’re just being careful, that is all.”
“O..OK.” Talia nodded, but I don’t think she believed us all that much.
Within minutes, we had everything ready to go. Star, Artem, Elise, Isabelle, Olivia, Brayden, Jodan, Julian, Spencer, Blair, Blake, Cohen, Dalton, Gil, and Zack came to see us off. It was as sentimental as any other family goodbye that we had, but I was in a hurry to get it over with. I just wanted to get home and see that these people hadn’t hurt one of my children. I just needed to reassure myself. And yes, I knew that I could call them, mentally or over the phone. That wouldn’t work though. I needed to see them. To hug them. To know that they were safe. I just needed to hold them in my arms and smell their scents. I needed that. As a father, that was all that would satisfy the emotions that were roiling inside of me.
“We will see you guys again soon. Come for a visit when you can. And Artem, let me know how those things turn out, OK?” I took his hand and shook it while my Little Bunny created the door back to our castle.
“Yeah, sure thing, Joaquin.” Artem smiled, but it was forced. “We will come and visit you all for the holidays this year. I will try to get all the boys to come with us then.” He was talking in code with me as well. Basically, he was saying that I better end this shit with these killer assholes so that we can all be together again.
“Sounds like a plan.” I nodded and hid the true emotions that I was feeling. None of his kids would know that anything was wrong at all.
Now that the door was ready, it was time for us to head home. It was time for us to see our family again.
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Riviana
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The decision to go home was fast and spur of the moment. We got our things and were ready to go in almost no time at all. It was about three in the afternoon in Crescent City when we left, and it was about an hour and thirty seconds later when we arrived in Riviana Falls, Colorado. It took us all of thirty seconds to pass through the door and exit the other side of the magical tunnel. The hour was because of the time difference between Colorado and California.
“MOMMY!”
“MOMMA!”
“MOMMY!”
…..
“MOMMY!”
“MOM!”
“MOMMY!”
All of our children, Zachary, Reagan, Zaley, Zayden, Rika and Zander, in that order, called out to us when we exited the door into the main living room of the royal tower. Mom, Dad, Lila and Grandfather weren’t there at the moment, so I wasn’t able to greet them. Oh well, maybe they would be back here in time for dinner. They did have other things to do as well.
Joaquin, feeling left out that the kids were all surrounding me, grumbled in mock disappointment.
“What am I, chopped liver? Last time that I checked I was your dad.”
“We love you too, Dad.” Rika let go of me and started the mass exodus from around me. All of the kids ran to Joaquin after that.
“We missed you, Dad.” Reagan hugged him and let go a little quickly. I guess men didn’t hug their dads like they hugged their moms.
“I missed you, Daddy.” Zaley leapt into his arms and hugged him while Zachary, Zander and Zayden hugged him around his waist.
“Yeah, Daddy, we missed you too.” Zachary looked up to him as he spoke.
“We missed you both, Daddy. But Mommy was through the door first.” Zander added as he pressed his face against Joaquin’s stomach.
“We were lonely without you guys here.” Zayden said to round them out.
“Hey, I’m home too.” Talia said as she finally walked through the door with Rudy and Alexio.
“Tally!” Zayden ran to her first when he saw her.
“Tally!” Zachary, running as quickly as his brother, called out to her as well.
“TalTal!” Zaley called her by her special name that she had for her as she ran toward Talia.
“Tally!” Zander was the last to reach Talia, and he was the one that knocked them all to the floor. There was a round of laughter, even from Alexio and Rudy as they watched on. Talia was laughing just as much as we were, albeit a little breathlessly. She had gotten the wind knocked out of her when she fell over.
“I missed you guys.” Talia, who couldn’t wrap her arms around the four kids at once, but she still did her best to hug them, hold them, and show them her love.
“Alright. Alright. Let her breathe.” Reagan scolded the younger children as he and Rika started to pull them away from her.
“Aww. But I missed my Tally.” Zayden whined as he stood on his feet next to Talia.
“She needs to get up. You four are crushing her.” Rika laughed as she pulled Zachary to his feet.
Once Talia was free of children, Reagan and Rika helped her to her feet and hugged her tightly. The three of them were close, all of the kids were, but these three specifically.