Andrew’s POV
I didn’t need to say anything more.
They broke on their own.
One after another, they dropped to their knees, the sound of it uneven, desperate, like something collapsing all at once.
“Alpha—please!”
“We were wrong—we admit it!”
“It was a mistake, we were misled—Amanda misled us!”
“I didn’t mean any of it, I swear, I was just following—”
The voices overlapped, chaotic, tripping over each other in their urgency to be heard, to be spared, to somehow undo what had already been done.
I watched them.
Silent.
Unmoved.
Their words shifted quickly—too quickly.
From denial…
to admission…
to justification.
“We were confused—she told us the woman was dangerous!”
“Yes, she said she was trying to deceive the pack—”
“We were protecting the pack, Alpha, that’s all!”
“Please
