I frowned at him, hating that his words were sinking in, that they were making me feel things I thought I had put away.
“She tried?”
“They showed her what would happen if she didn’t,” Cain shook his head. “You would have been killed. Every single wolf in the pack would have torn you to shreds. Your parents would have handed the pack over to the next lineage, and it would have been a completely different future. The joint pack would have broken apart, and Silas would have picked every single one of you off.”
“So you’re using the ‘it was for the greater good’ excuse?” I scoffed, hating that it was so cliché. Of course, it was; my parents had said that to me over and over when they were convincing me I had to do it.
“It’s not an excuse, and no, I’m not. My mom still refused, saying th
