Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
– April 29
Today I learned that Rahel is expecting. I made sure to give her extra attention during her last rotation. I wanted to keep my pattern of boys going as they had been. Soon, I will be adding to my family even more. Three more babies, maybe I will have a daughter this time.
– November 30
I got a surprise this morning. Both Nini and Iris birthed my children on the same day. This is a first for them. They are not twins, but they will basically be raised as such. Nini’s third son for me was named David and Iris’s third son for me is Jakob. They will grow to be strong just like the others.
– December 15
Today Rahel went into labor. Hers is by far the biggest surprise to date. She gave birth to twin boys. Julian and Leo make my count of sons up to ten. I am one proud father.
– July 31
I thought that the days of more babies might have come to an end. The mothers had not conceived in the last couple of years, so we have focused on the education of the ten sons that I have now. The oldest of which are now eight. They have been learning multiple languages as well as arithmetic and writing. They also learn how to fight. The training hall has not gone to waste with my boys here.
Today though, this glorious day that it is, I learned from my three wives that I am to have three more sons. They didn’t call them sons, but I am resigning myself to that. I will most likely never have a daughter. I have come to terms with that fact. I will raise my sons to care for their family well, and they will give me grandchildren, and hopefully granddaughters, in the future. For the time being though, I am happy raising them into perfect little gentlemen.
– April 1
Nini was the first to labor this time. She had birthed my eleventh son, Johann. He looks so much like the others, that same fair hair. I am glad that there is diversity in my family, but I also love how the boys born to each mother have features from them. They all look like me though. That is a fact. Every son that I have is easily recognized as being mine. They all have my eyes, but strong features. They are all handsome young men.
– April 11
Rahel birth Klemens just before midnight last night, and Iris birthed Christoph this morning. Both were boys. My twelfth and thirteenth sons. Everyone is resting well, but over the last few weeks I made the decision to bring in a couple of nannies. I knew that once the babies were here, my wives would have a hard time with all the children. Their numbers are rising, and they are not as young and agile as they were when we first wed. I do not wish to have them exhausted while caring for my children. The nannies, Merle and Anke, will assist with the studies that the boys participate in on a daily basis. Their studies had started to slip in the recent months as my wives got closer to their deliveries. I am happy that the nannies will be helping with them, as I cannot do it on my own.
– May 1
I am beginning to distrust the nannies that I have for my boys. They have been with us for four years now, but I caught them talking to the boys about monsters. I try to explain to my children that vampires, werewolves, were-cats, witches, warlocks, Fae, were-bears, and all the other people of the shadow world are our friends. I do not want these women to undermine me. I do not want them to tell my children that my friends, my brothers and sisters that I fought with, are animals that need to be exterminated.
– June 2
The wives are expecting again. I fired Anke and Merle though, so I am not sure how well things will be going with the children. The youngest now are four, and the oldest are thirteen. I believe that I can trust the boys to work on their studies now though. They are old enough to be trusted as they are close to being men of their own right.
– January 4
Rahel gave birth this morning. The birth was difficult. My son, Jeremias is fine, but my wife did not make it. She passed away from a bleeding that would not stop. The doctor said that there was nothing more that he could do. This day was supposed to be a blessing, but it is now one for mourning. I do not want to take this out on my child though. He is an innocent party in this. Who is going to care for him though? Who will feed him? I need to force Iris and Nini to do this job for him while they are about to deliver their own baby. Iris is also now the 鈥榝irst wife’. This is going to be her responsibility for the most part.
– January 5
Iris gave birth to Phillip this morning. She will be feeding both of the boys for the time being. And once Nini delivers, they will alternate.
– January 6
Nini had Basti this morning. These three boys were delivered so close together. It helps though, Jeremias needed these other mothers of his. He needed them to nurse him so that none of my boys died.
– December 18
Nini died this morning. The doctor said that it was from exhaustion. There was just too much for her to do. Iris is now the one that needs to care for the three boys that are almost one year old. I need to hire nannies again, but the only ones available are the ones that I fired. I need to give them stricter rules on what they can and cannot say to my boys. And if they do not listen, then I will be rid of them, permanently this time.
“Permanently?” Shawn sounded shocked. It was the first time that he interrupted me in a while. I had been reading these entries and learning about Alaric without even thinking about what Shawn was getting out of this. “Did he mean that he would kill them, or that he would never rehire them?”
“I don’t know.” I shook my head. “At this point, I just don’t know.”
I read on. The entries were mostly about training and the dissatisfaction with the nannies. Iris died a year after Nini did, and so when his youngest sons were only two, Alaric was a widower that had no one there to help with his brood of boys. No one except for the nannies that he didn’t fully trust.
The entries came fewer and fewer after that though. And by the time that five years had passed since his wives all died, Alaric stopped recording anything in the journal at all. He seems to have just lost the drive to record anything at all by them. And at that time, his oldest sons were already almost twenty years old and looking for brides of their own. Life was moving on, but Alaric seemed to have been lost in its wake.
I felt sorry for my old friend. He never had a forever love. He never had that one person that he felt was meant for him. He had a large family, but by the time that the journal ended, he must have felt that things were unraveling. His sons were leaving him and going out on their own. He was going to be heartbroken. Trust me, I know how hard it is when your kids get older and leave you. That is what happened with mine recently. And they were still staying at home. I can’t imagine how Alaric truly felt by this point.
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Dietrich
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“Alright, well, we’ve heard from Alaric and we’ve seen what the family tree had to tell us. Now, what does that other journal hold for us?” Shawn was still driving us toward the home for children that we were looking for. We were almost there, but there was time still to look into what this journal had to tell us.
“Let’s find out what Rayk had to tell us. I am sure that he was not alive when Alaric was. For one, this is a more modern style journal. Also, the dates on it tell me that Alaric would have been long dead when this was written.” I had opened the journal and was already looking at the first page.
May 31, 1989
It took a long time, but I have finally managed to get the family to agree to me. What Granny Merle and Granny Anke had told our ancestors has stuck way too much. For the last several generations, we’ve only been able to reproduce from within the family. If we were found to have had an affair outside of the family, then we were punished severely. Several of my brothers have been put to death over their transgressions.
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