Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“Reggie?” I whispered as I walked over to her. “Can you do me a favor?”
“U..uh y..yeah, s..sure thing Queen Riviana.” She smiled but I could tell that I was making her nervous. That was the curse of being the queen though. People were always nervous and scared of me until they got to know me more. Most people weren’t part of the inner circle though, so they weren’t given that privilege.
“Can you check all of these names against the ones that are currently enrolled at the university?”
“The one in the city?” She looked surprised. “Wh..why?”
“Just a hunch.” I was hoping that I was wrong, but I didn’t really think that I was. After hearing that boys name from Joaquin and then from Darrol as well, I needed to know how many Clovio’s there were at the university. Was there more than one? Was there more than one Warrick? What about any of these other names? One or two might be coincidence, but a lot would just be suspicious.
“W..well, Queen Riviana, I..I think that Darrol would be better at this than me. I..I was good with some of the computer stuff, but he is the true genius in that field.”
“Alright.” I looked over at Darrol and met his yellow eyes. “Will you run a search for me?”
“Just to be clear, Queen Riviana, you are asking me, an FBI computer crimes specialist and technical analyst, to hack into the university’s student database and illegally search the records for the names that we have here.”
“Yes, Darrol, that is precisely what I am asking you. Are you not able to do it?” I knew that he could, but I was not in the mood to argue this with him.
“Oh, I can do it. I just wanted to make sure that I was hearing you correctly.” He grinned.
“Queen Riviana, he used to be a hacker before he started working for the FBI. He is usually strictly monitored when he is working so that he is not hacking the wrong database. He is most likely elated to be hearing this request from you.” Reggie explained it to me, and I saw the glee in the man’s eyes.
“Good. Then please get to work, Darrol. I would like to make sure that you finish this before my daughter arrives.”
“Oh, sure thing.” He nodded. “This sort of thing won’t take me long at all. Especially considering that I have Reggie’s new list right here.”
I watched as he started typing away on the computer and grinning like he was having a lot of fun. I didn’t care if he enjoyed this or not, I just cared that he was able to do what I asked of him.
It took about five minutes at the most. After that he was looking at me with a list of students that were in the school as well as on the list.
“This is what I found.” He looked up at me. “For the female students there are Lovisa, Hede, Hedi, Armina, Annina, Natali, seven named Zoe, four named Valerie, two named Rebekka, three named Lydia, Rosalia, five named Eileen, Clara, and two named Nadine. As for the male students we have Clovio, two named Warrvick, Gunnar, three named Aloisius, Josef, Fritz, six named Patrik, three named Marc, twenty-eight named Jonathon, two named Carsten, Phillipp, three named Christian, and five named Adrian. I am guessing that not all of these are from that group, but if they are then that is an impressive number. Then again, I do not recall that the names repeated themselves that many times.” He was looking at his list that he had made. He had managed to find eighty occurrences of names that appeared on the list. Some of them were more common names, like Jonathon, but that didn’t mean that one of them couldn’t be in this group.
“Can you do background searches on them? Find out where they all came from? I need to know where they grew up, why they are at this university, and what it is that they’re doing. I want this to be as extensive as possible.”
“I can do that no problem, Queen Riviana, but it will take more time.”
“That’s fine. And if you can get their student pictures as well, something to identify these kids with, that would be a lot better for us all.” I wanted to know everything. Especially about that boy named Clovio. He was the only one in the school with that name and that meant that he was the one that Rika had been talking about. And if this boy thought that he was going to try and do something with my little girl, then he had another thing coming.” I glared at his name on the list that Darrol had made. I wasn’t about to forget that boy, nor was I going to forgive him for trying to take my daughter away from me.
Knowing what I needed, Darrol got to work on it right away. And it was right about that time that I heard the ding of the elevator and smelled Talia and Alexio getting off of it. They were going to be here any moment now, and then it would be time to get this meeting started.
I took one last look around the room as I waited for them to enter my office. All the people that had come together for this case. All the ones that were loyal to me and my family. All the people that wanted to see the peace and joy return to our world.
I couldn’t stop thinking about how much easier this would all be if we weren’t such a hidden society. I mean, with the number of people in this world, we made up at least half of the population. However, that half of the population were not able to be free. They had to hide who and what they truly were.
Was that really a life I wanted for my people? Was that really the way that I wanted to see things happen in the future? What about my children and their children? What about in a hundred years? Are we going to continue hiding? Are we going to continue to be nothing more than these creatures that lurk in the shadows?
I didn’t know what to do about this. Not yet anyway. I knew that things couldn’t stay the way that they were though. If we weren’t hiding in the shadows all this time, then there would be no way for those assholes to be killing my people, but there was nothing that I could do about it at the moment. I needed to find a way to fix this, to fix all of this. I needed to protect them all.
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Joaquin
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Riviana seemed to be distracted. She was lost in thought as she stared at the people in the room. I knew that she had heard Talia and Alexio coming from the elevator. I knew that she could smell them too. She was aware of it from the moment that I sensed it. I had seen it in her face. Now though, she seemed to be lost in thought and couldn’t really get herself to come out of her mind.
I knew that I needed to get her attention before Talia came in here. Riviana was the one that was going to be leading this discussion. Not that I couldn’t do it, I was more than capable of doing that, but that just wasn’t the point here.
“Riviana.” I walked over to her and touched her elbow lightly. “Are you OK, Little Bunny? Talia is about to come into the room.”
“Huh? Oh yeah, I am fine.” She smiled at me. “I knew that she was about to get here.” She smiled at me and seemed to wake up. “I was just thinking, that’s all.”
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“Alright. Well, it’s almost time to tell the others about Talia’s vision. This is going to be important for us all. And we need to come up with a plan for that night. It’s two days until they’re supposed to kill those girls. We need to be on guard.”
“I know.” She nodded at me like she was at the top of her game now. “I am good to go. Don’t worry about me at all.” As she gave me that fake smile, Talia and Alexio came into the room. None of the others seemed to take notice of them, even though they had all heard and smelled them coming. They weren’t people to be alarmed about, so they basically ignored them.
Talia and Alexio walked over to where we were standing and looked at the room filled with people.
“I did not expect there to be this many people. And I see that there are some that I have not met as of yet.” Alexio was looking over at Reggie and Darrol as they worked on their tasks.
“I called them in just recently.” Riviana told him. “They are FBI specialists and have Vincent’s seal of approval. There is nothing to worry about.”
“Ahh, Vincent. I trust his judgement completely. I am glad that they have been vetted already.” He was a lot like Vincent in the way that he never wanted to let people that he didn’t know around Talia. They were both extremely protective of their charges. I wonder how he will react when I finally do let Talia start dating? I know that it could be difficult to care for someone like they’re your kid or family and seeing someone that might hurt them. For a while, Vincent was pissed at me and the way that I made Riviana feel. And he even told me that to my face before. Best of luck to Talia’s future mate, that was going to be a fun thing to watch.