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Tyler went incredibly pale and murmured, "Oh man..." His eyes searched mine and somehow, I don't know how, I realized that Tyler now also knew why we were

here ... is really unbelievable...", he said hesitantly. "I mean it can't be anything else. The only decision in a pack that is made solely by the members, excluding the alpha and beta pair, is deciding which other born alpha should succeed their alpha.

I don't know Lily if you can imagine that, but it hasn't happened again since the alpha here took over this pack. That was several hundred years ago, long before the revolution."

Tyler seemed just as shocked at the thought of having to live here, in his case even as an alpha.

"This pack has an incredibly powerful position in the world. A simple werewolf here could command even the beta of an alien pack. It's an incredibly difficult position that demands a lot of responsibility and we don't even have a choice."

I looked at Tyler questioningly. Why shouldn't we, or rather he, since I was only human, not have a choice with an important one After all, it pretty much completely decided our lives.

"Lily, as a human, I don't think you realize the full implications, but once a pack has chosen an Alpha, there's no turning back. Neither for the pack nor for the aspiring alpha and his mate. In fact, it was more than generous for the current alpha to let the pack choose between three potential alphas. In the past, you just got an aspiring alpha and waited for the pack to accept it." Tyler meanwhile jumped to his feet and paced restlessly around the room. "Lily believe me, if I had known beforehand we would never have

been came here, alpha 's invitationhere or there. I probably should have come up with a good excuse, but with the best will in the world I didn't suspect it. Oh damn! I have to look for a beta here! But I don't know anyone here well enough for that..." Tyler had spoken to me directly at the beginning, but he seemed to be talking to himself or thinking out loud rather than really wanting to tell me something. He stopped,

saw then looked at me and really seemed to want to talk to me this time.

"You don't even know what it means for you if I become an alpha here!" Not a second later he was back on the edge of the bed.

"As my companion, you may have already thought that you would become the Luna of the pack, but here it's a bit different again, especially since we don't have the problem with your voice.

Depending on how quickly the current alpha wants to get everything done here, we only have a correspondingly small amount of time.

If things go really bad for us, the alpha might want to do the handover at the next full moon.

You have to be there as my companion, the handover itself takes place without any contact between the alphas, but almost completely in the form of a wolf. The whole thing will be of little interest to you. But it also has a great meaning for you.", Tyler interrupted himself briefly and cleared his throat: "And... I have to tell you something I probably should have done some time ago. But if I'm honest, I don't think you're going to like this at all..."

I looked at Tyler uncertainly. Why did I just have a very bad feeling about it?

"It's like this..." A knock interrupted Tyler. He left the room with a short apologetic look in my direction. Why did this always happen so inappropriately?

Tyler didn't reappear after a few minutes. I was fed up with the constant waiting and got up to see where he was. Had he maybe left again without saying a word to me?

But Tyler was actually still there and probably noticed me before I even left the bedroom.

"Oh Lily, did it take us so long?" Tyler spoke to me as soon as the front door came into view. Jared or Luke was standing on the other side. I say questioningly from one to the other. "Maybe we can sit

down I'd rather go into the living room. A conversation like that between door and hinge is probably not appropriate." The twin nodded and then, somewhat hesitantly, entered the house.

Tyler and I sat together on a small sofa, the twin in the armchair and across from us. "Um, yes... where is the best place to start?" "Best right where you left off, Jared." Tyler grumbled a bit annoyed and thus also clarified my question, which of the two brothers sat in front of us.

"Well actually I was just there to say that dinner is going to be outside tonight since we're having a BBQ today..." "Jared! You know we both just broached a completely different subject!"

"Man, Tyler, I don't even know if I'm allowed to say something about that... and what the alpha will do to me if he finds out about this..." "You're really doing it right now! Lily and I ended up figure out what this is all about. You're just supposed to tell us if we're really going to take the job and what's going to happen next." "So you won't say anything to the alpha?" "Of course not Jared! Why should we? If you want, we'll act surprised if the alpha finally wants to initiate us." In the end, Tyler even sounded amused and Jared now seemed convinced too.

"Okay, but if the alpha finds out and punishes me, I'll set my brother on you." He decided and pointed threateningly with his index finger at both of us in turn.

"Yeah Tyler, you're right. Alpha Mason is sorting out his successor, and after today's overdose, it's pretty much settled for the pack, so you two will be. As far as I know, the Alpha prefers to make the switch on the next full moon. He will probably announce it to the pack tomorrow morning and then want to introduce you to your tasks. Whereby I find a month for it quite little. After all, that's a big job." "

Yes, you're probably right." Tyler said thoughtfully and gave me a sideways glance: "After all, neither Lily nor I know the pack or they us. And Lily just doesn't know enough about werewolves and her future role here."

"You haven't told her everything yet?" Jared asked, sounding seriously surprised. "Um no... I haven't come to certain aspects yet." He just said and scratched, probably embarrassed, on the back of head. "Well then I would hurry up with the explanations if I were you. At the latest, the pack will enlighten them tonight and not in a careful way." Jared stood up and probably wanted to go now. On the way out, however, he stopped again and turned to me. "Lily, only with that you know. If you're feeling uncomfortable about all this tonight and you don't want to be here.