BETRAYAL AFTER BETRAYAL

"Think about the famine, the upcoming winter and the great loss that my pack and the Red Claw pack had to suffer because of the last battle. Giving up the merchant will buy us some time to build our strength again."

From outsider's perspective, who didn't know much about the complicated power struggle and the schemes, they would think alpha Nolan as a noble person, wise and kind to think about all of those above, but the truth was as crappy as shit. 

Cane knew it wouldn't be easy to get any clue of how alpha Nolan had double crossed them all if he didn't have this incline feeling and the report from his spy in the north. 

Alpha Nolan knew what kind of role he was playing and what game he was in, and he did it extremely well. It was hard to find a crack in his pretentiousness by only observing his action.