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Mostyn blinked. He couldn’t believe his eyes. That omega had just…shifted. Into a wolf. Into a fucking wolf.

Holy shit.

These people really could shift. How was that even possible?

He could’ve chalked it up to some kind of trick if not for the fact that the process repeated itself when some big, strapping alpha named Sean shifted. Mostyn gasped all over again.

Their wolves were very different, as if their status translated to their wolf form. Sean was much bigger than Ruari, proportionate to their size difference as humans, and they had distinctively different colors as well. Ruari was white, and Sean was a silver gray. Would that be true for all alphas and omegas? If so, what color were betas?

He decided to ask Isam. “What color are betas in wolf form?”

“A beautiful rusty brown.”

That sounded gorgeous.

A discussion ensued between Lidon and another omega, but Mostyn was lost. “What’s that about?” he asked Servas, since Isam was whispering to his other neighbor.

“They’re a new triad, so they haven’t shifted yet. Lev is…not a typical alpha.” Servas seemed to search for words, and Mostyn gave him his full attention. “He’s really more like a beta, though that doesn’t quite seem to fit him either. So I think they’re worried that even though they’re fated mates, they still won’t be able to shift because of Lev.”

“Oh, is he like Enar?” Mostyn had met the guy when getting a tour of the clinic, and he immediately liked him. He’d addressed him as “alpha” out of habit, but Enar had quietly asked him to treat him as a beta. Mostyn had never even heard of something like that, but it had struck him as the most beautiful thing on the planet. Who the fuck cared what you looked like anyway? If the man felt like a beta, Mostyn would treat him like one. He hated all that alpha-posturing anyway.

Servas nodded. “Similar situation, I think, though there have been no official requests to treat him as a beta or anything. But you can tell. He’s just too soft, too sweet for an alpha.”

Behind them, excited yips drew attention, and like everyone else, Mostyn turned around to watch. Three wolves stood close to each other. The alpha guy in the wheelchair was now a gray wolf, the omega a white one, but Lev was neither, nor was he the rusty brown Isam had mentioned. His size was between the other two, but he had all three colors, somehow, as if he were a mix of all three.

“I’ll be damned.” Servas sighed. “That’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.”

The wolves trotted forward, and Lev headed for Enar, who sank to his knees and hugged the wolf tightly. It made Mostyn a little teary-eyed. What a beautiful moment between those two men, who must recognize a lot in each other.

Then the three wolves joined Ruari and Sean, who lay at Lidon’s feet, and they too bowed for their pack alpha.

Lidon scratched each of the wolves on their heads. “I’m so happy for you. You guys make me proud to be the alpha of a pack this special and inclusive.”

Yeah, no kidding. It made Mostyn proud too, and he didn’t even know these people.

Lidon looked at Palani. “I know you wanted to shift, but I’ll go instead. It feels right that it should be me.”

The beta startled. “We can all shift.”

Lidon shook his head. “No, that would bring too much of a power boost. Sven is still recovering, and we have too many babies here. We agreed one of us would shift to confirm, and that will be me.”

Oh wow. There had been power in that last statement. Mostyn had felt it ripple through the room. So that was what Kean had meant about Lidon’s power. That was the buzz he’d felt since coming here.

He was shocked when Palani didn’t give up. “But you said I could shift. When we talked about this before, you promised I could shift.”

The guy had some serious balls to go up against not only his alpha mate but the pack alpha, and Mostyn all but braced himself for Lidon’s anger. Surely that big alpha would not take kindly to being disrespected like that.

Then everything happened quickly.

Palani wavered, then fainted.

The omega wolf shifted right before that and half-caught him, Enar rushing to grab the beta as well.

They lay Palani on the floor of the barn as an utter silence descended.

And then he started seizing.

Oh god, Palani was having an epileptic seizure. Mostyn had seen plenty in his time at the hospital. He regularly did scans on people with epilepsy to see if there was an obvious neurological cause and, more importantly, if there was something that could be done.