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?886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLPfBiP1kFb
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?886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkdvPEyeTXf
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.886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC0Y8X1hJ8Q
My attention returned to him.886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7iEXHU4CwC
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.886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYv0oi9push
"Lyn, can you hear me?"886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡszw6kaQZhi
"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. 886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxv3g4tAKMy
"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."886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu3rSVSN32J
"For the love of Luna, so it was you... I thought I heard your voice before."886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3syJLltEqb
"I didn't want to frighten you, before."886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDyINTOSNmh
"At this point, I doubt much can scare me... Too much has already happened."886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqWbBX2EZ0X
"Do you want to leave for a while?"886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡakCBxCZlGg
"Where to?"886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQBuGDX0KBv
"The garden."886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzvjI3hFmYU
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.886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWN5VhXAdgg
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.886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRelnPthT9T
No one had maintained it after my mother left.886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmDIz9dK9ku
"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." 886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtPLORiSN6P
It was. At least, it was to me. To think that the garden she loved so much, was being left to die... It hurt.886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs1DrFyvWXw
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.886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlHyHk7QWIq
"Are you holding up well so far?"886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiSeWntsfnu
Strangely enough, in a world of Gray and Brown Wolves, I fit in well. Brown Wolves...886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx8KaNbCWfN
"Bryan... Is he a..." It had been bothering me ever since I sensed him. "Or am I sensing wrong?886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkRLo8MG3TT
"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."886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOlfZJhWbUW
"But, why?" I asked."Why is a Brown Wolf in a Gray Wolf Pack?"886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOcdMcx5rGr
"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."886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDfurIO6xfv
"You turned him?"886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVx5TQ9bL1G
"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..."886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuJ38I0VfzV
"Why, though?" I asked. "Hasn't everyone in the pack sworn allegiance to him, or something?"886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAGkJQL1gPb
"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."886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD9n0FeaDN2
"I never understood one thing," I told him. "Why do you have to do as he says?"886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlbrggrJHI6
"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."886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ10aPtEfV88
"I'm an equal to him?" Wasn't he the Alpha of the Ultimate Gray Wolf pack? In what way did I match that?886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCeAc8mt5QF
"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."886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDF2cDCTWu2
"You have to obey him because you're inferior by birth?"886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEtrZALh80l
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.886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Qbia7z5sO
"We are bound to him by a promise, Weslyn," his voice echoed in my years. "It's a promise we cannot break."886Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6tpW5ELxFP
I realised too late that the rose was already dying.
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