Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“I am sorry, Daddy.” I was on the verge of tears when I spoke to him. I had made him so angry. “I..I knew that you were in a meeting and I didn’t want to disturb you. That was why I was going to wait until Alexio got me home to tell you.”
“It’s OK, sweetheart.” Dad dropped to his knees in front of me. “It’s OK. I am not mad at you. It’s OK.”
“Don’t be mad at Alexio either, please. This is my fault.”
“It’s OK, Talia.” Mom came over and kissed me on top of my head. “It’s OK. We were just worried. The secretary at your school called us and told us that something happened, but she didn’t know what it was. We were so worried about you. That’s why we were here, waiting for you to get home.”
“I’m sorry, Momma.” I started to sob. “I didn’t mean to cause problems.”
“It’s alright.” She hugged me to her chest and rubbed my hair. “What happened? Tell us what happened to you.”
“I..I..I had a..a..another vision.” I had to force the words out. It was so hard to say them with how upset that I felt.
“A vision?” Mom’s sharp intake of breath made it clear that she was shocked by this development. “What happened honey?”
“Was it one of those people, from that same group as before?” Dad was trying not to trigger too many memories for me. He knew how upset I had been when I learned that my dream that I had that night was real. And here I was having another one of them.
“Yes, Daddy. It was them. They were killing my friends.”
The way that Mom and Dad both gasped at that, the sound of their voices with just that quick inhalation of breath, that told me so much. They were scared. They were worried. And they were angry.
I was sure that their anger wasn’t directed at me, but I was the one that was sitting right in front of them. I was the one that could feel the waves of emotions that were rolling off of them. And that meant that I was even more scared than I had already been.
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Talia
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I felt the waves of fear, sorrow, and other negative things pushing into me like they were waves of magic. The cold that I was already feeling got even worse. I started to shiver uncontrollably as my parents glared off into the distance. They were trying to think of what to say next, what they wanted me to do or something.
“U..u..uhm, M..M..Mom, D..D..Dad, c..c..can you pl..pl..please l..l..let me g..g..go?” I tried to pull away from them. “Y..y..your e..emotions are m..making m..m..me s..s..s..so cold.”
I couldn’t see my reflection, but I had a feeling that my lips would be blue. This wasn’t something that I had ever experienced before. I had never felt the emotions of others that were around me. Not like this anyway.
“What?” Mom seemed to look down at me with wide shocked eyes. “Oh my Goddess, Talia, I am so sorry.” She let go of me and took a step away. Dad, seeing whatever it was that Mom had seen, dropped my hand and rose to his feet, backing away a few steps as well.
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“I am sorry, Talia. I didn’t know that we were affecting you like this.”
“I..i..it’s OK.” I wrapped my arms around myself and tried to get warmer. “I..I..I have n..n..never had th..th..this hap..hap..happened to me b..b..before.” I was shivering so bad that I felt like I was about to bite my tongue in two.
“Here, Talia.” Lex took off his large leather jacket that he was wearing and draped it over my shoulders. “Is that a little better?” He felt cool, not cold like my parents. I guess it was because he was trying to keep his emotions in check.
“Y..y..yes, i..i..it is. Th..th..thank you.”
It really was better. He was usually so warm, and his jacket was no exception. I had a feeling that he was still physically warm, it was just his emotions that were cool. The jacket though, large enough to drape over me like an extra large blanket, was doing the job of warming me up from the inside out. And it smelled like Lex too. His scent that I had come to know so well. It was comforting to me now. It smelled like safety and home to me.
“I am feeling much better now.” I said as I snuggled into the jacket as best as I could. “Thank you, Lex.”
“You are very welcome, Talia.” He stepped away then, letting my parents see me more clearly now.
“Talia, tell me what happened in your vision. What was it that you saw?” Mom was the first to return to her normal self after hearing that I had another vision and that it was about my friends.
“Well, I found myself at Acacia Park. I was near the fountain and heard something from the middle of the park.”
I went on to tell them what happened. That there were five girls from my school, two of which were my friends. That these five men were with them and that they used some long thin tube that was meant to put the women into a trance. After that, I detailed the process of the ritualistic murder that took place in front of me. I even told them about the message that they left behind and how it was a warning for us all.
“Was there anything else that happened?” Dad asked as he knelt in front of me again. I could feel his emotions again, but they weren’t so cold this time. In fact, they felt hot. Almost like they were burning me. I was still a little chilly though, so I welcomed the heat for a little while.
“W..w..well, th..there was something.” I looked away from them.
“What was it, Talia?” Mom asked as the worry filled her voice again.
“Th..th..the leader of the group, h..he was the same man that killed Andrea.” I looked up and they understood it right away. They knew that he was the rapist that left behind his DNA in that girl.
“What else, Talia?” Dad prompted me to speak more.
“W..well, uhm, h..h..he turned to me and spoke to me. He said he knew that I was there this time and last time. He asked me if I enjoyed the show.” I shuddered as I left off there. They weren’t satisfied though. They knew that there was more to it than that.
“What else did he say, Talia? What else did he do?” Lex was the one to ask me this time. He seemed to know that this was the worst part of that waking nightmare. He knew that it was going to be hard on me, but he needed to know.
“H..he said something else, something horrible.” I took a deep breath to steady myself. “H..he said: I see you are back, little visitor. Did you enjoy the show? I can’t see your face, but I know that you are there. Go ahead and tell people what is happening. They can’t stop us. And the next time that I take someone, life and body, it will be yours. Of that I promise you. And I bet that someone like you, so powerful, powerful enough to visit me during both of my kills, I am betting that your body will be so tender and juicy. I will enjoy taking it.” I sobbed a little after telling them that, it was painful for me to remember this part. “But that wasn’t all.” I looked up at them with swimming eyes. “He grabbed me. He was actually touching me in my vision. And that is what scared me the most.”