Beck Rune was never meant to be Alpha.
Born thirty-four years ago as the eldest son of the previous Alpha of the Shadowfang Pack, Beck grew up in the glittering but cutthroat world of Upper City werewolf elite. Rune Tower, the family's original corporate fortress, was already a powerhouse in defense tech when he was a boy. His father, a traditionalist who believed humans were a temporary weakness the Moon Goddess would eventually correct, raised Beck to be the perfect heir: ruthless in boardrooms, lethal in pack skirmishes, and unquestioningly loyal to the old bloodlines.
But Beck was never traditional.
From a young age he had a roguish streak that drove his father mad. While other Alpha heirs trained in ritual combat and studied ancient lunar texts, Beck was sneaking into Lower City black-market tech labs, learning how human engineers were hacking neural interfaces and drone swarms. He saw technology not as a threat to werewolf superiority, but as the next evolution of lunar power. "Why rely on the Goddess's blessing when we can build our own?" he would joke in private. Those jokes got him punished more than once.
At seventeen, everything changed.
The Bloodfang Pack launched a surprise corporate raid on Rune Dynamics during a full-moon board meeting. Beck's father and two uncles were assassinated in the chaos. Beck survived only because he had slipped away earlier to test a prototype cloaking device he had secretly built with a human engineer friend. When he returned to find the boardroom painted in his family's blood, the weight of the pack fell on him instantly.
Instead of seeking immediate revenge like tradition demanded, Beck did something no one expected. He went underground for six months. He used his roguish charm and brilliant mind to build secret alliances with human tech smugglers, disgruntled lower-rank wolves, and even a few rival pack outcasts. When he finally resurfaced, he had turned Rune Dynamics into a tech-defense juggernaut that no one could touch. He modernized the entire company, fused ancient lunar magic with quantum neural networks, and created the first "LunaLink" system that every major pack now uses.
He became Alpha not by ritual combat but by outsmarting everyone. The Council hated it. They called him a "tech-blooded traitor" behind closed doors. Beck smiled, shrugged, and kept winning. His public persona became legendary: the flippant, playboy Alpha who threw extravagant parties, dated models and socialites, and acted like the weight of the pack barely touched him. Only a few people saw the truth — the calculating strategist who never forgot the blood on the boardroom floor.
His relationship with his younger sister Toria is complicated and protective. Toria was only twelve when their father was killed. The trauma of that night left her gift (the rare illusion-healing ability) unstable and her body frail. Beck has always blamed himself for not being there to protect her. He indulges her, covers for her manipulations, and quietly funds every experimental treatment she demands. But he also sees the darkness in her obsession with Glen. He has warned her more than once that chasing a mated Delta would end badly, yet he has never forced her to stop. Some part of him still feels he owes her the world after failing to save their father.
Beck's views on humans have always been more progressive than the Council's. He has seen what human ingenuity can do when paired with werewolf power. He secretly funds several hybrid research projects in the Lower City, though he keeps it hidden from the traditionalists. He finds the old prejudice boring and wasteful. "The Goddess gave us brains for a reason," he once told a Council elder. "If she wanted us to stay primitive, she wouldn't have let humans invent the internet."
This is why Elle fascinates him.
When the Council first reported a "wolfless human causing trouble for Delta White," Beck dismissed it as another petty domestic drama. But when he watched the security footage of Elle calmly exposing Toria's private thoughts in the luxury store, when he saw the way the ECHO SYSTEM reacted and the subtle blue glow that only advanced neural readers could detect, something clicked.
Here was a human who should have been dying quietly from Luna Decay. Instead, she had somehow fused forbidden lunar magic with cutting-edge neural tech and turned it into a weapon. She was the living proof of everything Beck had secretly believed: humans and werewolves were stronger together.
And she was doing it while the entire pack tried to crush her.
Beck has never been one to chase easy conquests. The playboy reputation is mostly armor. He has had lovers, yes, but none who truly challenged him. Elle does. She is breaking every rule, surviving a disease that should have killed her, and awakening something the old texts only whispered about. He sees in her the bridge he has been quietly trying to build for years.
That is why he appeared via holographic call.
That is why he looked at her with genuine, intense interest and said, "Interesting… I want to meet this wolfless Luna personally."
He is not just intrigued by her power. He is intrigued by her courage. By the quiet fire in a woman the world tried to erase. And for the first time in years, the roguish Alpha who pretends nothing touches him feels something stir that he has not allowed himself to feel since the night his father died: genuine curiosity, respect, and the very real possibility of wanting something more.
Beck Rune is not a hero. He is a strategist who plays the long game. But for Elle, he might be willing to bend some of his own rules.
This keeps him complex, charming and dangerous, progressive yet ruthless, protective of his sister yet capable of seeing Elle as something extraordinary. It explains his power, his interest, and why he could become a real rival or ally in the story.
Note: Alpha Beck knows about the Luna Decay and saw it in her and want to know how a human can access it now. This haven't been confirmed since many years ago.