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?802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡioopdJy1nC
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?802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT1HEupFnGE
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.802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfCbqbJNJZw
My attention returned to him.802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2q2VCGGxET
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.802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAhMESXaxDV
"Lyn, can you hear me?"802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3q1GLxcxy8
"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. 802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoKWO4nycM7
"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."802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoF6Nw70s1L
"For the love of Luna, so it was you... I thought I heard your voice before."802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6TYuOdN1EH
"I didn't want to frighten you, before."802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtnw78n7EPc
"At this point, I doubt much can scare me... Too much has already happened."802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYrOb52ECkR
"Do you want to leave for a while?"802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl6mDKVx611
"Where to?"802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA1iBiivBR8
"The garden."802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡshbztiVqyK
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.802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo6LrwSAnHx
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.802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡewuo553GKA
No one had maintained it after my mother left.802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdESd09ROfb
"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." 802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ57VLfsKaUZ
It was. At least, it was to me. To think that the garden she loved so much, was being left to die... It hurt.802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4p4XFzlueo
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.802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo4nMUnFMl2
"Are you holding up well so far?"802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKKX8MpiOcM
Strangely enough, in a world of Gray and Brown Wolves, I fit in well. Brown Wolves...802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Oc8ApxV22
"Bryan... Is he a..." It had been bothering me ever since I sensed him. "Or am I sensing wrong?802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdQTLC59hRl
"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."802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg5Ssi5XwWs
"But, why?" I asked."Why is a Brown Wolf in a Gray Wolf Pack?"802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG5DJZQSLXP
"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."802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWSlhSyPJW2
"You turned him?"802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSSNmQdEC2f
"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..."802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAevSVvgDoF
"Why, though?" I asked. "Hasn't everyone in the pack sworn allegiance to him, or something?"802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoBdiC5cR9M
"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."802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWssa6XNO3P
"I never understood one thing," I told him. "Why do you have to do as he says?"802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiBOst908YS
"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."802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP2gJ1ps6wf
"I'm an equal to him?" Wasn't he the Alpha of the Ultimate Gray Wolf pack? In what way did I match that?802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwSHPlzsZs1
"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."802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuIRq35VKHX
"You have to obey him because you're inferior by birth?"802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDPr4hURXgv
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.802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKFORgXkINB
"We are bound to him by a promise, Weslyn," his voice echoed in my years. "It's a promise we cannot break."802Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBOvtaGtP1x
I realised too late that the rose was already dying.
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