All at once, several scents filled my nose and I was taken back by it all. My eyes fixated on West Grayson. Gray Wolf... Blood of an Alpha. I turned to Martyn: another Gray Wolf. I soon shifted my gaze onto Bryan... And felt my head cloud with confusion. Brown Wolf?824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtmObf3ajgh
I froze in my track and made sure I hadn't made a mistake. But no... He was a Brown Wolf and there was no doubt about it. Yet, hadn't Liam just told me that Brown Wolves were enemies to Gray Wolves. Surely, the others could also sense him... What place did a Brown Wolf have in a Gray Wolf pack?824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2NB58ZEX1c
Liam growled to capture my attention... It wasn't an angry growl as a normal person or beast, but strangely enough... Almost a fond growl.824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIUsuvJwR2u
My attention returned to him.824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTMxL8X4hqV
He was beautiful in almost every way possible, his ash-brown fur embellished with silver. At the same time, it was undoubtedly him, as his fur was the exact shade of brown of his hair.824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7zGUnxa5xy
"Lyn, can you hear me?"824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx7o6AxUMwK
"Liam?" It sounded like him; I was sure it was him. But his voice was in my head and I didn't believe that was possible. 824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjXhpqoNQWq
"It's called a mind-link," he explained. "Since we're soulmates, we can talk like this from now on, no matter where we are."824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI506HaRN0W
"For the love of Luna, so it was you... I thought I heard your voice before."824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdf4oW6asiY
"I didn't want to frighten you, before."824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx2DeCvyWXL
"At this point, I doubt much can scare me... Too much has already happened."824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDTkB5Va0kH
"Do you want to leave for a while?"824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPdiCc9a0Xv
"Where to?"824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuQAUuL9Rsl
"The garden."824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ABhvDxuUt
He took my silence as an agreement and led the way out of the open door and through a dimly lit corridor. A strange part of me leapt into action at the familiarity of my surroundings. This was where I had grown up.824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNyHaIhh7oW
The garden was unlike what it was in my memory. It was wild and unkempt. The ground was covered in a thick layer of frail, brown leaves and the skeleton of ancient plants. Even in the middle of the night, everything in the garden was dead. Not even a ghost of life remained.824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYRGTHhUxFf
No one had maintained it after my mother left.824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Y13RY6WoN
"West ordered for the garden to be neglected after your mother left Gray Valley with you," Liam stated, as if he'd read my mind. "He believed it would be an insult to her memory." 824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6SyZPs1WMF
It was. At least, it was to me. To think that the garden she loved so much, was being left to die... It hurt.824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9iPoV7bekY
Growing up, when I didn't know how much she had sacrificed for me, she wasn't the best mother to me. But after learning about my past, I couldn't have asked for a better mother.824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWjkAwtkerz
"Are you holding up well so far?"824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0YuKSQqHzY
Strangely enough, in a world of Gray and Brown Wolves, I fit in well. Brown Wolves...824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWotet6Vofy
"Bryan... Is he a..." It had been bothering me ever since I sensed him. "Or am I sensing wrong?824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡysHMK2WRw5
"No, you're right. He is a Brown Wolf," he answered. "Your enhance senses have been awakened and so you can smell what he is."824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ63LmhQeQ5V
"But, why?" I asked."Why is a Brown Wolf in a Gray Wolf Pack?"824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM7fBdgYtDr
"He's not your average Brown Wolf. Bryan Mitchell and his sister, Bryanna were turned with their consent and under West Grayson's orders." He sighed. "Turning humans into Werewolves forces them into pain every month on full moon... It is even more agonising than our first time shifting. I'm not proud of what we did to them."824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnU7lPTWihc
"You turned him?"824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡueXls6FfyT
"I wish I had a choice." His tone was only what could be described as remorseful. "West wanted a Beta. A Beta who would be loyal to him forever..."824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP6GSt9LUZa
"Why, though?" I asked. "Hasn't everyone in the pack sworn allegiance to him, or something?"824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo9DjMkkKOw
"Or something," he murmured. "We follow him out of necessity... But Bryan isn't like that. He's loyal out of gratitude. I believe, that's what West wanted. And Bryan claimed he needed his twin sister with him, so he obliged."824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6gg8fd3x2e
"I never understood one thing," I told him. "Why do you have to do as he says?"824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD3QC7dxeMS
"You broke a promise to him, didn't you? That's why he has claim over you... It takes a lot of will for a Gray Wolf to be able to do that. The only reason you could do it is because you are his equal."824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRBFkJ83tqe
"I'm an equal to him?" Wasn't he the Alpha of the Ultimate Gray Wolf pack? In what way did I match that?824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxOYvdoeU7L
"You may not seem it, but you are. You're a Grayson Wolf and his sister. You could be the Alpha, as easily as he is."824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgAcbIN8CnA
"You have to obey him because you're inferior by birth?"824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4JcLYGpreK
Before he could reply, I stopped in my tracks. In the distance there was a pure white rose, unnaturally white against it's lifeless surrounding. I automatically found myself drawn towards it.824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDl7HCnDWJU
"We are bound to him by a promise, Weslyn," his voice echoed in my years. "It's a promise we cannot break."824Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡETNUOD9MF1
I realised too late that the rose was already dying.
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