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?857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP35hvtd8NG
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?857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7eAD5S6LIW
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.857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLFbwnaJyQC
My attention returned to him.857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9IWYc9dmSG
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.857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcXv16yqg0U
"Lyn, can you hear me?"857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsoHG7jdJrR
"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. 857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXtlyISvylI
"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."857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkewgBwHfxg
"For the love of Luna, so it was you... I thought I heard your voice before."857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjVdZRHqIxs
"I didn't want to frighten you, before."857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqaFI75p5vQ
"At this point, I doubt much can scare me... Too much has already happened."857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuXyZpMXOsc
"Do you want to leave for a while?"857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1yzgKtSyhC
"Where to?"857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSs79Hs8Ycs
"The garden."857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqYIsJT2chi
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.857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnvNUoERyeG
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.857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxjPOjZwLxK
No one had maintained it after my mother left.857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU1Hq4s8OH7
"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." 857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuXwgCkzx8S
It was. At least, it was to me. To think that the garden she loved so much, was being left to die... It hurt.857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5dhusrkQVC
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.857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN3sIitZsZ4
"Are you holding up well so far?"857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSkdNpUW22P
Strangely enough, in a world of Gray and Brown Wolves, I fit in well. Brown Wolves...857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1FeOuyjvvM
"Bryan... Is he a..." It had been bothering me ever since I sensed him. "Or am I sensing wrong?857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDkWrWpGHDQ
"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."857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Jipwf0O89
"But, why?" I asked."Why is a Brown Wolf in a Gray Wolf Pack?"857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJN69MdPIqt
"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."857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa8hRv6f7oT
"You turned him?"857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡah5lgZnYEJ
"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..."857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUD75f6TUk8
"Why, though?" I asked. "Hasn't everyone in the pack sworn allegiance to him, or something?"857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsP2WqGa89O
"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."857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVBQ1c3teSe
"I never understood one thing," I told him. "Why do you have to do as he says?"857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡymb3w5phhn
"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."857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhaFjPh4vnE
"I'm an equal to him?" Wasn't he the Alpha of the Ultimate Gray Wolf pack? In what way did I match that?857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ5L1vZagzl
"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."857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ45amjmT92t
"You have to obey him because you're inferior by birth?"857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVu4q69zCcK
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.857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYfe885rIO9
"We are bound to him by a promise, Weslyn," his voice echoed in my years. "It's a promise we cannot break."857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9QP9Ywkw1Y
I realised too late that the rose was already dying.
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