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?813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVtGYKRuhQd
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?813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTghtcu0l6m
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.813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡASHAlqxPMl
My attention returned to him.813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuCQ7n71LI0
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.813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPyO8loZrGk
"Lyn, can you hear me?"813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9lsTOaVMWE
"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. 813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoR4HTX1K3b
"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."813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXxMBGBsfCE
"For the love of Luna, so it was you... I thought I heard your voice before."813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWuHTNyfYag
"I didn't want to frighten you, before."813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoKmX0s35dh
"At this point, I doubt much can scare me... Too much has already happened."813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBPjUg0vkZ6
"Do you want to leave for a while?"813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBGZ9La9Pro
"Where to?"813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW007Y7BL8F
"The garden."813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6GwgDotS7x
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.813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc7FhT1Qn3e
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.813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoqwfhRkNDW
No one had maintained it after my mother left.813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3cxLp8geDI
"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." 813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpdSKubj7mp
It was. At least, it was to me. To think that the garden she loved so much, was being left to die... It hurt.813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnmT7KQ6oRv
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.813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu74YIS2Dxt
"Are you holding up well so far?"813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3dggHTBwE8
Strangely enough, in a world of Gray and Brown Wolves, I fit in well. Brown Wolves...813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVCGLyQjMEQ
"Bryan... Is he a..." It had been bothering me ever since I sensed him. "Or am I sensing wrong?813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD7QZ6tUYVh
"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."813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCV7YHAP2OC
"But, why?" I asked."Why is a Brown Wolf in a Gray Wolf Pack?"813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF1dgZI86ZM
"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."813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMgeUDw8yV1
"You turned him?"813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJyKKYbQE0t
"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..."813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLQ2fiv8bpD
"Why, though?" I asked. "Hasn't everyone in the pack sworn allegiance to him, or something?"813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡztoGWoJIGA
"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."813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ2J6NLxfX9
"I never understood one thing," I told him. "Why do you have to do as he says?"813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡomfg9cywVA
"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."813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ01qPVh4Ppe
"I'm an equal to him?" Wasn't he the Alpha of the Ultimate Gray Wolf pack? In what way did I match that?813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj7y9rcW4dm
"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."813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLzYZsZbZnQ
"You have to obey him because you're inferior by birth?"813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8fmN2eBBTZ
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.813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkketU7t8tj
"We are bound to him by a promise, Weslyn," his voice echoed in my years. "It's a promise we cannot break."813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPz999hPDyq
I realised too late that the rose was already dying.
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