Declan's POV
"I am your Alpha, I've lead you into many battles before. But this isn't the same thing. At the end of this forest lays my mate, captured and enslaved in the arms of our intruders. Intruders who once took the lives of two children here, and five of our men. I am not asking you to fight for Elena's freedom. You hate her, we all hate her. But we alone have the right to hold her captive. After what she did, she does not deserve an easy death, she deserves to be locked up and given nightmares. Today, as we match into battle, we're not saving Elena Humphrey because she deserves it, we're saving her becausse we alone have the right to make her pay for her crimes. I alone, can make her sufer and live a truly painful life." All eyes were trained on me. I raised my sword, even though
