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As was to be expected, the Alpha stood in the doorway.

While we, or I, looked at him in surprise, he didn't seem surprised at what we saw.

"You guys want to finish this?" he asked in a sneering voice, raising an eyebrow.

Tyler sat down on me, but still held me in his arms.

"Alpha! What can we do for you?"

The Alpha then stepped fully inside and closed the door behind him.

"You still haven't told me if you've decided to be a beta or aspiring alpha. The werewolf in question should be let in on your plans."

"Of course, Alpha. I've already made up my mind, too.", Tyler said in a calm voice.

,,Of course you already have that aspiring alpha. Nothing else was to be expected," said the alpha, but his voice clearly contained sarcasm. "Would it then be up to the fine gentleman to tell me his decision?" he suddenly asked, at least for me, surprisingly aggressive .

Tyler growled and pulled me even closer to him.

"Alpha, of course." He said between growls, "But you probably already know which wolf I chose for the position of Beta."

"Good, then I'll tell the twin how lucky he is." The alpha growled, sounding as if he wanted to deliver a death sentence.

The alpha left just as quickly as he had come.

"Oh man.", Tyler sighed.

"I have the feeling I have to check on Jared right away. Not that I don't have a beta anymore, do you think?"

I just looked at him questioningly and shrugged.

After all, he hadn't even told me that, if I got it right, Jared was going to be his beta.

I haven't even figured out how they decide which werewolf is going to be a beta and which isn't.

"Well, let's get back to our actual topic. The thing about the Omega and its name.

As you already know, the position of the omega is predetermined. As priests, they play an important role in the pack. They represent a direct connection between a werewolf pack and the moon and/or the moon goddess. Omegas are the companions of the moon. So they have a kind of long-distance relationship and gain special powers through this connection, but I don't know all of them.

However, I am told that the Omegas must compensate for these gifts. So her seeing and her speaking. There is also a reason why we no longer mention their names. Unfortunately, that's all just theory and I can't tell you how much there is to it.

After becoming an omega, the moon alone has the privilege of calling the omega by name and also punishes the omega for anyone else calling it by name. In effect, and again this is the part all werewolves know well, an omega is in excruciating pain when called by its name.

That's why the boy is no longer in the pack he grew up in, as there's a much higher chance of someone accidentally calling him by his name than here, where nobody actually knows his name." I looked at Tyler in horror. I would

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then Milo would be in excruciating pain if I said his name, so of course only if I might be able to speak again, of course.

It all sounded terribly unfair to boys to my ears. He wasn't even 16 years old and there was so much bad ahead of him.

How could one endure such a fate?

As we have done more often now, Tyler and I sat together in the main dining room.

I always felt like I was only moving in the same three rooms and the ceiling fell on my head.

I hadn't seen Milo again, but now we were sitting with the twins again and eating.

Since Tyler's bite, it seemed perfectly fine that I had my own chair, and no one seemed to mind me looking at him or her.

Jared has been fine so far.

As Tyler had suspected, the Alpha had actually turned up to deliver the news that he was going to be Beta.

However, the Alpha seemed to be in a much better mood then than we were.

In any case, Jared beamed all over his face and thanked Tyler a hundred times because he had never expected this 'honor' in his life.

By the way, he did it at such a volume that the whole pack probably heard it.

Luke, who was sitting across from me, was by no means the only one who rolled his eyes at every mention of the word 'Beta', which was confirmed by a quick look around the room.

Tyler next to me just smirked and seemed pleased that Jared was so happy.

After a quarter of an hour, however, Jared seemed to have finally finished with the topic, but he had a new topic ready.

"Have you heard the latest?" he asked.

"If it's about the new beta, yes we did." Tyler said, amused. "

No! I don't mean that to you. I'm talking about the group of 'fugitives' that the scouts found not far from here."

I looked up in surprise.

Fugitives were people who, mostly at the time of the revolution, escaped from the werewolves and since then have lived alone in the wilderness.

In the first few years, the werewolves also recaptured many people, but after decades there were only very few people and for the werewolves too much work with relatively few results. As a result, they stopped chasing the fugitives in decades, only catching them when they happened upon them.

I myself couldn't imagine with the best will in the world how humans managed to escape the werewolves for so long and survive in the wilderness for generations.

"How were they found all of a sudden?" Tyler wanted to know.

"It's supposed to be a group that's always wandering around and they ventured too far into the territory. That's how they were tracked down and are supposed to be picked up tomorrow. I've even heard there are said to be at least three women, two of whom are even younger and could potentially be companions."

"And you're hoping yours will be there?" Tyler asked again with a rather skeptical tone.

"Of course he hopes.", Luke intervened in the conversation: "Every lone wolf always hopes. Whereby, according to experience, it always gets very complicated with such women and they have a disproportionately high suicide rate. Coupled with The fact that mates are always a thing with werewolf twins is hopeful, but not as much as with known methods of finding a mate."

"Although it makes no difference where the companion comes from.", Jared added. "

Yes, I agree with you. But working with women who belong to the 'fugitives' is always very difficult, since these usually are always 100% IG against werewolves." Luke added.

There was a short silence until Tyler spoke again: "You would be the first right? The first identical werewolf twins with a fugitive as a companion?"

The twins' gaze was depressed.

"Yes, we would be," said Jared. "But the probability of a good ending is pretty bad for us given the constellation." Luke finished the sentence.