ATLAS ROMAN | 40 | NORTH SIDE ALPHA | BAR OWNER
“There is something different about these two, something dangerous. They will be the end of you, but that will mean very little when the end comes. Watch them closely, but love them like the others; treat them no differently, don’t let them know that something dreadful is in their cards. You made a mistake in your youth and now it comes back to haunt them; a shame, for these twins have so much potential. One has the potential to be a true alpha, but they will suffer in silence and loneliness first. The one thing that they will always have is each other—separation will never last long; they will always find one another.” —Medea Bava
That old woman was right—they are dangerous, or at least he is.
There has always been a striking duality to the boy, a duality that his older siblings do not possess and something that is rarely seen in their pack pathology. Atlas is something of an outsider, a stranger in his own skin despite his parents’ thinly veiled attempts at understanding. It is the wolf in him—it drives him crazy; makes him strong but makes him weak in the same breath because he is always acting before he thinks it through. While the others can pick out the innate weaknesses in their prey Atlas watches and cannot decide which is more beautiful, their weaknesses or their strengths. His parents brush it off as childish brashness, but it is something that will haunt the boy into adulthood. He learns early on that he is different but it is much later, perhaps too late, that he finds out the dangerous truth behind it.
