Lilith stepped forward, her gaze cool and unmoved. "You didn't know," she repeated softly. "And yet you still followed, you saw the fucking signs, you knew what the consequences were for betraying the pack, but you still chose to follow.
"We thought you were the danger!" Niles wailed, his hands buried in his face. "You're a witch—just like your mother—how could we trust you?"
"My mother was innocent! She knew nothing about the traitors in your pack; she was just trying to save you all. Does being a witch mean I'm evil? Have you not seen how witches treat the werewolves amongst them? Like they fuckin matter!" Lilith yelled, her eyes blazing with a burning glare.
Aria's voice cut through the room like a whip. "And now the truth is out. You never cared about the truth. You only cared about control and about the power you were going to hold,"
