Malakar's POV.
"Order! Order, please?" Vladimir, our pack's chief elder, and my father's voice rings out over the protesting. His voice is clear and still powerful enough to cause them all to stop talking immediately. They all turn to face him, and he resumes his seat next to my mother.
Because I have refused their order to reject my bond with Hope, they feel that it is necessary to involve the rest of the pack. I think that they believe that if I hear it enough times I will eventually start to agree with them. So, they called for a pack meeting, and now we're all gathered around so that they can all have the opportunity to raise their opinions, and in the end I must agree with them and do as they ask.
That's the plan, but I have no intention of going along with it.
"Now, we've heard
