His Brother's Mate

    Gregory Wolvensen was trotting through the blue grey fog slipping from lamp post to lamp post watching the shadows for anything that out of the ordinary.  The rogues had been active lately and not covering their tracks very well so between trying to figure out what they were up to and covering up their messes Gregory and his pack were exhausted.

    His white wolf barely made a sound as he approached the shoreline of Lake Ontario.  Here in the dream realm it was silent...he could easily follow his nose without fear of being jumped. Stepping on the cool, sand and hearing the water lap quietly at the shore line he followed the scent of an unknown wolf to a grouping of large rocks.  Golden eyes alert to an ambush he approached carefully.  

    The moon was casting shadows through the fog that made them shift and shiver before his eyes. Then he saw it.  Clear movement, catching his eye and a grey and white wolf pup suddenly jumps from the shadows and up onto a rock a few feet from him.  

    In his thoughts he hears the pup,"Hi! Are you the Alpha of the Black Water Pack?" Still surprised at the pup's sudden appearance.

     "Yes, where are your parents’ pup?" This pup looked too young to be in the dream realm. It just wasn't safe for him and if he is this small, he will be fodder for practically anything in the dream realm.

    "Mom's asleep and she doesn't come here.  But I come here looking for you. You are so hard to find. Why didn't you come when Mom left the letter for you? Uncle Greg I want to come home.  Mom needs help but she won't ask for it."

     "What?...what? wait? She's asleep and you are here without her permission? Uncle Greg? Pup what are you talking about?"

    "Mom's not like us. She doesn't have a wolf and she just thinks this is my imagination. You are my Uncle..you are my Dad's brother right?"

    "Who is your father?" This was a new twist on trying to get money from his pack.

    "Richard Wolvensen. He's dead though. But if you aren't really Gregory Wolvensen, I'll just continue my search." The pup goes to leave. He's been careful not to give me any real information and I know nothing about this letter.

    "Pup when was that letter left? Where do you live? It's not safe being in the dream realm." Gregory is flustered and in disbelief shaking his white shaggy head.

    "I'll be fine but Mom's struggling and she's trying to hide it. Please we are all alone there's no one else like me here." The pup jumps off the rock and runs off only to disappear behind another rock and Gregory sees his brown fluffy tail disappear from the dream realm. The pup was gone from the dream realm and but was he safe? He still didn't have any names, dates or locations.

    There's a letter somewhere. His time here was ending and he was going to have to talk to his beta, Jeff.  Maybe he knew about this letter. This pup shouldn't have to be out there alone it was far too dangerous for him out there without learning the rules of secrecy or who and what to avoid.  If this pup was his nephew he needs to be with his pack, but what to do with the mother.  That would have to worked out in the real realm. He fades from the dream realm to awaken in the real realm.

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    Waking in the real realm in Gregory climbs out of his bed and moves to his bedroom door.  Opening the door as he grabs a t-shirt.  "Jeff! Get up we have a problem! Meet me in the study!"  

    Jeff's door opens and he hangs his shaggy blonde head out, "Five minutes and I will be there. How bad is it?"

    "Possible family issues." Gregory's face has a sour expression.

    "I'll get the file." Jeff ducks back into his room as Gregory hurries down the main stairs and turns into the study off the main entrance of the pack house. Lifting the phone receiver, he places a call to his assistant, Terry, "Morning Terry listen I need you to check to see if there have been any more correspondence from anyone claiming to be Richard's widow. If you find anything send it to me asap.  We might be having another issue and this time there's a real pup involved. Thanks."

    Sitting at his laptop Gregory opens it and starts running through his emails.  Looking up as Jeff comes in with a binder of tabbed and cross-referenced correspondence for different claims and scams, they have had over the last seven years.   They had to do this after the papers got wind of Richard's murder and the search for his new wife. No one believed she was at fault as his murder had been very public and yet oddly unsolved.  

    Richard had gone to meet his wife at a restaurant for lunch a few days after marrying her and then was seen fleeing the restaurant leaving her there at their table. He was later found mauled in an alley blocks from the restaurant.  Not many clues were found by police and it had been too long for Gregory's enforcers to find anything useful either.

    The wife disappeared along with the documentation of her marriage within a month of his death.  The family figured since she was human it was better off not searching very hard.  They figured she would come for his money eventually.  Oh, many tried but all were proven to not have any real claim.  Now a pup and a human mother have surfaced, sort of.  

    "Well what has that bee in your bonnet this time?" Jeff asks and he tosses the binder on the main desk and goes to sit in a nearby chair.

    "Weird incident in the dream realm.  I encountered a very odd thing.  A pup of all things claiming I'm his Uncle and pleading for me to help him and his human mother." Golden eyes look up through messy light brown hair as Gregory clenches his jaw.  "If any of it is true there's a pup out there with no supports and a woman completely unaware of how to raise a pup."

    "Gods anything could happen and I don't feel like killing a pup before he has a chance. But a pup in the dream realm? That's alpha blood there for sure."

   "Yeah and that scares me.  If it is a scam who has this pup and what is the pup going through? Either way we need to find out where and who he is. Then make sure he's safe. Now the pup claims his mother dropped off a letter for me.  However, he didn't say any names, times or places."

    "Convenient for a scam but safe if he's for real.  A nephew? That's a new twist." Jeff starts flipping through the binder as Gregory shifts through pack reports looking for anything that might match with what he knew.

    "Hey wait here...three weeks ago a woman came into the offices in Toronto and requested a meeting with you.  Claims she wanted to give you a letter personally.  When they went to escort her out, she left the letter on the front desk and left before she could be escorted out by security.  Here... this is the letter." Jeff removes a plastic sleeve from the binder and hands it too Gregory. "Greg it's not much to go on. It only reads that she wants us to that he exists and that she will look after him.  His name's Evan Daniels.  No address or even her name.  What the hell?  Who does that? They say she wasn't well dressed either. How are we to research this or contact her?"

    "Well we know she's human and the kid is school age. We also know he can enter the dream realm and I know he isn't sure I am who I claim to be so he's going to continue to search for me. I'll get Terry to follow the school aspect and I'll just have to look in the dream realm for the pup.  Evan huh? That was our grandfather's name but why is he not using Wolvensen?"

    "Well, we will have to ask the mother when we find her. Oh, here's a description of the woman. Long red hair, blue eyes, no taller than five feet tall, pale skin and dressed like she was going to work in a diner or coffee shop. Why would she not ask for money or tell us where they are?"

    "Fear we will take him away from her? I'm sending this information to Terry and get her on it right away.  This is sounding more and more like it might be real. I don't want him shifting at recess because he panics or something."