Kapitel 428: Betrayer - Part 2

LERRIN

Everyone held their breath, staring at the Second, in submission—in the dirt—before their Alpha.

"I declare my allegiance to the King!" she cried so all in the camp would hear. Lerrin felt them tense, eyeing him, unaware of why he had taken issue with his Second. "I do not defy him—"

Cheap words! Lerrin sent to the pack mind. Cheap words from a self-serving, liar and traitor!

Asta hesitated, but swallowed and went on. "There are those who would call me traitor, but I declare for the Alpha! I do not defy him!"

Murmurs rose in the crowd around them and Lerrin growled.

"All I have done has been for the Pack!" she cried, her voice hoarse and desperate. "To further our reach, to lift the wolves to their proper place—"