章 219: You Find Her

Andreas hadn't been sleeping.

He had revealed so much more than he was comfortable with when the information about the alyko map came out and those false stories were distributed to the council members, but it was the last remaining line of defense in all that he and Pearce and Auden had constructed over the years.

Auden. What an unfortunate bastard, but Andreas couldn't say he missed him. He was never very smart—always stating the obvious and spouting his vile hatred of the alyko.

Andreas despised the alyko as well, but he knew when to tread lightly around the sensitivity of pack trauma. And he didn't truly believe that the alyko were witches in the sense that they were evil, which is usually what the term implied. Rather, 'witch' was just a convenient slur that invoked the distrust and hatred in their pack.