The End Does Not Justify The Mean 소설 & 이야기

And we'd justified it by telling ourselves we were protecting our people, creating deterrence, establishing peace through overwhelming force. We'd been monsters. Well-intentioned monsters who believed the ends justified the means, but monsters nonetheless. "So this is revenge," I said flatly. "You're going to torture and kill me to balance the scales for what I did forty years ago." "Not just you," the male nightwalker said.

* *That had always been the whole point. **THE END**

I was on my own. The End

They were chatting enthusiastically when Xander, who had been upset the day before, appeared. He ignored the nurses’ curious gazes and dragged me back to my ward with a stoic expression. He also held a thick needle. I hid under my blanket and trembled. “I may have hurt you in the past, but you can’t betray your Hippocratic oath.” He realized that I had misunderstood him. He put the needle away and sat down on the edge of my bed. “I spent the entire night just thinking. Since we’re both unmarried, why can’t we just let go of the past and start again?”

"So you are suggesting that we drag our pride through the mud?" "Of what use is pride to us if we have no money?" Cora asked. She stopped patting his back and came to stand in front of him. "I know you feel like everything is going wrong but this is the path we can go through to achieve all we want. Remember that the end justifies the means."

‘Neither could I. . The End

“Shane, if you refuse to do as I say, I will make you watch your mother suffer a fate worse than death.” That sentence shattered the last of my dignity. My body stiffened as I lowered my head in front of the livestream camera. “I was wrong. The Charlton family was wrong. We threw our weight around and acted shamelessly.” Only after I apologized did her men bring Eric back. Suzanna rushed to him and checked him from head to toe. When she confirmed he was unharmed, she relaxed. Then she turned toward me with impatience. “Enough. If you had done this from the start, things would not have become so ugly. Why did you insist on acting so pathetic?”

It just did. THE END

I should have been disgusted, I should have been disappointed but I wasn’t feeling any of the two. Could I fault Shane for this? As Alpha, he shouldn’t hurt his own, yet since I’d come here, he’d done just that. If the ends justify the means then doesn’t that excuse his actions? Yes, he had done and continued to commit horrific acts but hadn’t I looked away when Ethan did the same? Had Shane ever told me he would be or do differently? He’d never pretended to be anything other than what he was. He had never given any inclination of doing things differently. Had he shown me that there was good to him? Yes.

This is just the beginning. THE END