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?811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWqLiJo3GaH
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?811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡegtZHLT1V2
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.811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQCrv1qZXVF
My attention returned to him.811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxOdVnEjSSA
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.811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXJmKURYnJg
"Lyn, can you hear me?"811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt1b9NWmrIt
"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. 811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ1yIoBN4ow
"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."811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSs3uQOOGGX
"For the love of Luna, so it was you... I thought I heard your voice before."811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfvfhevJKiM
"I didn't want to frighten you, before."811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUXQn7ijhis
"At this point, I doubt much can scare me... Too much has already happened."811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrZlyH7UtOX
"Do you want to leave for a while?"811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmVhr4f5jIQ
"Where to?"811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuWthTQurbf
"The garden."811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3eL6C3oWZu
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.811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhayyB6eNPj
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.811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYNBoztiKNh
No one had maintained it after my mother left.811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd7Yso25vhC
"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." 811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTxiOUamcHn
It was. At least, it was to me. To think that the garden she loved so much, was being left to die... It hurt.811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡclTuAJJZvH
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.811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV75cqD8CGe
"Are you holding up well so far?"811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1hvB2N9i5z
Strangely enough, in a world of Gray and Brown Wolves, I fit in well. Brown Wolves...811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Wq1rtxiFh
"Bryan... Is he a..." It had been bothering me ever since I sensed him. "Or am I sensing wrong?811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw4bPLJmGo3
"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."811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡinqytSnK4c
"But, why?" I asked."Why is a Brown Wolf in a Gray Wolf Pack?"811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFgJxU8U4LE
"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."811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbTdTvFjGHD
"You turned him?"811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9IniUOUEJu
"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..."811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2rEaeRFBqH
"Why, though?" I asked. "Hasn't everyone in the pack sworn allegiance to him, or something?"811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvqeXmC7Pga
"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."811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAQEeU6l3tB
"I never understood one thing," I told him. "Why do you have to do as he says?"811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGNmHP7KJ7i
"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."811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjh7YCgyCt9
"I'm an equal to him?" Wasn't he the Alpha of the Ultimate Gray Wolf pack? In what way did I match that?811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLcgZ5y1Mf4
"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."811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjvefJuVp1j
"You have to obey him because you're inferior by birth?"811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKvCCXil7qz
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.811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA5aT8pHhNZ
"We are bound to him by a promise, Weslyn," his voice echoed in my years. "It's a promise we cannot break."811Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHSlHSt4ccn
I realised too late that the rose was already dying.
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