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?744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBu2ETSC4cF
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?744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡemsuvqwZkh
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.744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIKdwhQNfpL
My attention returned to him.744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEynkKpQos9
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.744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡImQdGMeQmH
"Lyn, can you hear me?"744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7l4c0yQlGp
"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. 744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNkWge9axLo
"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."744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtuyIKRuUAA
"For the love of Luna, so it was you... I thought I heard your voice before."744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxPZ4Hm7UQR
"I didn't want to frighten you, before."744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKTb5uZM5Jk
"At this point, I doubt much can scare me... Too much has already happened."744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8TK5fYWcfq
"Do you want to leave for a while?"744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdGJU14DNGr
"Where to?"744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMFwCmNdEXY
"The garden."744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIJHxdOj0xl
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.744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡezkWto9sT3
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.744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCQMWp2xETF
No one had maintained it after my mother left.744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgelCKEjTTa
"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." 744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ32Wuu4bkZW
It was. At least, it was to me. To think that the garden she loved so much, was being left to die... It hurt.744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6bDpuNeLXN
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.744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCm34tcwUKs
"Are you holding up well so far?"744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpwuCLgUGnq
Strangely enough, in a world of Gray and Brown Wolves, I fit in well. Brown Wolves...744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNdUYq2PEsf
"Bryan... Is he a..." It had been bothering me ever since I sensed him. "Or am I sensing wrong?744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVRrL3ou0YO
"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."744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ84D2NUI1cR
"But, why?" I asked."Why is a Brown Wolf in a Gray Wolf Pack?"744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYfbkwUBDYl
"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."744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiXZF9aXLLI
"You turned him?"744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvzr2MJzPt3
"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..."744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ03KkrfHHB9
"Why, though?" I asked. "Hasn't everyone in the pack sworn allegiance to him, or something?"744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKy28RH7JjC
"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."744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFuqZ7AvYpV
"I never understood one thing," I told him. "Why do you have to do as he says?"744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGPexO75Rdy
"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."744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh58bvbKO2F
"I'm an equal to him?" Wasn't he the Alpha of the Ultimate Gray Wolf pack? In what way did I match that?744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj2MJfbyu9E
"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."744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtWBNQu6cSj
"You have to obey him because you're inferior by birth?"744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSajhc8Oar2
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.744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWmD7xAEQXm
"We are bound to him by a promise, Weslyn," his voice echoed in my years. "It's a promise we cannot break."744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj0BqCaUBrM
I realised too late that the rose was already dying.
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