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?863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMIAcGbRWkL
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?863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ6SSVtMtHb
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.863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaczOvnYEt6
My attention returned to him.863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkN0RKFiuvc
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.863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZGq6B2ilEh
"Lyn, can you hear me?"863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0PoqDDjNT7
"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. 863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpouTWCwLo8
"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."863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNGbfcHCesd
"For the love of Luna, so it was you... I thought I heard your voice before."863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5oaaWPZoD5
"I didn't want to frighten you, before."863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgI55QC3GrM
"At this point, I doubt much can scare me... Too much has already happened."863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMjA30NDFym
"Do you want to leave for a while?"863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0ukrMO1lNN
"Where to?"863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIhuqzzQ502
"The garden."863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJMMFPufeGy
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.863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXiSBN4E8ss
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.863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGqZjcb2bjJ
No one had maintained it after my mother left.863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv6I9wzje3b
"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." 863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡotKkbLkbuv
It was. At least, it was to me. To think that the garden she loved so much, was being left to die... It hurt.863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRee2CxpYUj
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.863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvzlNHZbRrK
"Are you holding up well so far?"863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1oxWy86Q7c
Strangely enough, in a world of Gray and Brown Wolves, I fit in well. Brown Wolves...863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX4unoqDWH8
"Bryan... Is he a..." It had been bothering me ever since I sensed him. "Or am I sensing wrong?863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmRef76CMjq
"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."863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ejXKUnzHu
"But, why?" I asked."Why is a Brown Wolf in a Gray Wolf Pack?"863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpj3kRNdR5c
"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."863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjUodHtkQKK
"You turned him?"863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ncy51TmXs
"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..."863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzQHKhsArmS
"Why, though?" I asked. "Hasn't everyone in the pack sworn allegiance to him, or something?"863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3JFzbBMsEu
"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."863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD963Fcxhvu
"I never understood one thing," I told him. "Why do you have to do as he says?"863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡadUxl9dRac
"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."863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi3iKTWNdN7
"I'm an equal to him?" Wasn't he the Alpha of the Ultimate Gray Wolf pack? In what way did I match that?863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmyb5l4MCLe
"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."863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwOggUwiXC8
"You have to obey him because you're inferior by birth?"863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡulUZaYIU7H
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.863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTiZhQt5Qdv
"We are bound to him by a promise, Weslyn," his voice echoed in my years. "It's a promise we cannot break."863Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5aUCWfrmwj
I realised too late that the rose was already dying.
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