Not just the Beta (Oriana and Slade) novel Chapter 68

Maddie

She’d never before come across a wolf, male or female, that did not have a pack scent, that was not a rogue either. That young Alpha who’d been in the café today, and she’d been young, Maddie didn’t think much past 16 at all, didn’t really look like an adult and did only look very young. But had her wolf at the same time.

It was the most unusual wolfen thing she had come across to date. It did not make sense to her or Tawny at all. She had smelled wolfen and her rank was easily discernible for Tawny, clearly scented of Alpha blood. But not pure blooded, the girl was only five-seven, and she’d been wearing jeans and a fitted top.

She’d also not had all the defined muscles of an alpha-blooded wolf. Even young ones got a slight enhancement. The females looked toned and trim, this young she-wolf looked naturally thin, but that was it.

She smelled of lilac and musk sticks, very sweet like candy, but there was nothing else, no

underlying pack scent, which she’d found over the years mostly smelled of something within the forests that surrounded the pack, or grew inside the packs itself. The most common tree or moss, grass or flower even.

Not this young alpha though, she only held two scents, Maddie didn’t think it was possible to hide just one’s pack scent, and nothing else. Though she herself had never tried to do that.

Something like that could come in handy; keep females safe from enemy packs. If the enemy couldn’t tell what pack you were from, they might just leave one alone. It was an interesting idea.

She made a note of her idea, if she couldn’t find anything anywhere in the intranet about such a thing. She could attempt to figure out how to create that.

The other she-wolf, Sara, she looked a bit older, healthy and unharmed like Londyn also had. She was a pretty red-haired girl, who looked very sweet and innocent to Maddie. A rogue female Gamma-blooded wolf. It was interesting to her. That girl could well be safe due to having the use of that Goddess Gifted Gamma Charm attached to her.

If she came across any male rogues, she should be able to, in theory, charm them into walking away from her, calming them down and ignoring their urge to mate her without her consent, uncaring of how she felt about it.

That girl had smelled like Chamomile and the soft scent of white roses, a calming scent to go with her bloodline, that would also help with her use of the Gamma Charm, Maddie thought. Likely those two she-wolves had come together and worked as a team to protect themselves, Londyn would be physically strong, and could use that aura of hers to make wolves back off. Whereas Sara could charm them out of any trouble they may fall into.

They were Maddie realised a perfect match of two bloodlines to help each other out, even though one was a rogue. That could go in their favour as well. Londyn could claim Sara as hers and other wolves would have to back off. Rogues didn’t usually have a master, but they could choose to follow an Alpha if they wanted to.

This was likely what she had seen. In reality, those two were no different to her and Ana, two pack-less wolves joining hands and becoming a little family of their own. Two were better than one when it came to protecting themselves, and from that card Londyn had given them. They went everywhere together and weren’t broke either, she didn’t think.

Londyn wasn’t hiding herself, it was likely she’d changed her name, like both she and Ana had done. Londyn and Sara might not be their actual names, just the names they went by in the modelling industry, human identities to allow them to have bank accounts so they could be paid.

She sat at her desk that night and accessed the intranet like she always did, had waited until she knew those techs over in the Winter Moon pack would have knocked off for the day.

Set her programme up to deter their programme from finding her exact location. It would let them track her all the way back to Greenville, and then shut them and her down if they got that far. If she was on-line for that long, that was.

It happened occasionally, she could have created a backdoor into that pack and made herself look like one of them who worked out in one of the human world company’s Austin had, but where was the fun in that?

She wanted Austin to know she was accessing his pack. She was kind of hoping he would come back this way and ask her out again, even if just for a good time out in the woods. She certainly couldn’t take him back to her place, and she doubted he’d take her to his hotel room. That wouldn’t be soundproof and his Beta would hear everything.

She shook her thoughts off and opened the intranet, typed into the search bar, her question of; can wolves be pack-less but not of rogue status? And got no hits other than how one became a rogue.

She huffed a little and tried again; rogues without a rogue scent? Again, no hits other than hits that led to scent masking oneself. Maddie leaned back in her chair, and thought about how to phrase what she wanted to know. She’d just put in the two most obvious and gotten nothing.

Ana came and sat down next to her after putting Ocean to bed, “No luck?” she asked, looking at the computer screen.

“Not to the obvious,” Maddie answered her.

“What about wolves with no scent?” Ana commented.

Maddie typed it in and got directed to scent masking once more. Ana leaned over and typed in:

Can a wolf’s pack scent diminish or vanish completely? No hits at all “It’s a tough one, I see.” Ana commented.

“Mm, going to itch my brain.” Maddie nodded and typed in; are there packs with no pack scent?

Nothing returned to her yet again.

Her eyes moved to the computer programme she had running in the background as the screen changed colour in that window, and she chuckled softly and switched it to the main screen.

Someone was actively on-line over there in the Winter Moon. A tech was trying to hack her programme in real time. It could be done if they were good at what they did. She closed out the intranet and sent that person a sunflower that burned up, and words that flashed on their screen “I burn hot in the winters.” Then she chuckled once more, as she was exited from the intranet completely.

“Cheeky devil.” She smiled “Trying to hunt me real time.”

“Can they?” Ana asked her.

“Still at risk though of being kidnapped for the black market.” Maddie sighed.

“That she is, but might not know about it, depending on when the pack was relinquished, how old she was when it happened, if that’s even what happened.”

“No way for us to know unless she’s willing to sit down for a proper chat.” Maddie stated simply.”

Did you sss them?”

“I did, offered to send scent masking oil to an address of their choosing, short and simple no identifying markings on it.” Ana nodded.

“You want to see if they’ll figure out it’s us?” Maddie asked.

“Yes, kind of hoping they’ll come back and ask questions like you did me.” Ana told her.

Maddie smiled at her. “Ah, thinking about growing our little family, hey?”

Ana smiled. “It’s such a loving family, why not expand it to incorporate two more she-wolves with good strong bloodlines.”

Maddie chuckled softly, “Oh I see what you’re thinking, you’re trying to create a pack, huh?”

“Why not? Londyn is an Alpha, I’m a Beta, Sara is a Gamma, and you’re an Elite. We could have Londyn rank you up to Delta.”

“And we already got an heir, little Ocean.” Maddie chuckled.

Ana smiled at her. “A full female unit, I bet you don’t see that much in the wolfen world.”

“Not likely.” Maddie smiled at her “I’ve sucked you into my world of bringing others in. You’re going to be a big softy at some point.”

Ana just laughed at her. “I like how you are, it’s rubbing off on me in a good way, I think is all.”