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?880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe9O4wV82dT
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?880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPSL9pvVJuA
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.880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBEXi7MrOOR
My attention returned to him.880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlENSp20ViE
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.880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYLGRIJD2Fj
"Lyn, can you hear me?"880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSIJBziUMCK
"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. 880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCc4qMWOywX
"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."880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9AWqpYrahq
"For the love of Luna, so it was you... I thought I heard your voice before."880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtv8mcdDGaP
"I didn't want to frighten you, before."880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJn4Dmu356P
"At this point, I doubt much can scare me... Too much has already happened."880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHQiA7i5Qab
"Do you want to leave for a while?"880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkaPeHw0h6m
"Where to?"880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH4b4mTT9u5
"The garden."880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoG4ajGTBnw
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.880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFxX3NRn0jd
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.880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsmZnZD2ybf
No one had maintained it after my mother left.880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3GrldZReEw
"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." 880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPOEFQvOqHG
It was. At least, it was to me. To think that the garden she loved so much, was being left to die... It hurt.880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡToP6ZWLENy
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.880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGugAEUXr4K
"Are you holding up well so far?"880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIpiM2tushh
Strangely enough, in a world of Gray and Brown Wolves, I fit in well. Brown Wolves...880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXjZyDY56FD
"Bryan... Is he a..." It had been bothering me ever since I sensed him. "Or am I sensing wrong?880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd1IavUHpFm
"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."880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2rH9gwdX0e
"But, why?" I asked."Why is a Brown Wolf in a Gray Wolf Pack?"880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeGhcSqf32a
"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."880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMVSAugtA9A
"You turned him?"880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ625Hasyd3w
"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..."880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEPdpCEZSVk
"Why, though?" I asked. "Hasn't everyone in the pack sworn allegiance to him, or something?"880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf4jEyXsedw
"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."880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvvORuB8sbn
"I never understood one thing," I told him. "Why do you have to do as he says?"880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKkrnonvuuT
"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."880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvEjR2D8hIG
"I'm an equal to him?" Wasn't he the Alpha of the Ultimate Gray Wolf pack? In what way did I match that?880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIHIwZsQ4Hr
"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."880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz0OWED4XF9
"You have to obey him because you're inferior by birth?"880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7s3CE3PUQ7
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.880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1XIdH2y4lQ
"We are bound to him by a promise, Weslyn," his voice echoed in my years. "It's a promise we cannot break."880Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTDN96bbJfi
I realised too late that the rose was already dying.
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