Bad Love An Alpha’s Regret

AARON

“No!” I shout, stepping in front of Leah as if I can protect her from this “Leah had nothing to do with it. Our son needs his mother. You have no right to detain her as well!”

“Alpha Rathborn, you will conduct yourself in a calm manner, as befits your station,” Samsen says coldly.

Meanwhile, Petyr is making some kind of call on his phone.

“F uc k you, Samsen,” I say crudely, making the Elder look even more unimpressed. “My wife is innocent in all this. So no, I’m not going to stand calmly by while you detain her. I’ll go with you for this farce of an investigation and trial, but you leave Leah out of it. You’ve got no proof she did anything wrong.”

Samsen arches an eyebrow and gives a cynical laugh. “No proof? She has Tobin’s Alpha powers. What other proof could we possibly need?”

Before I can answer, there’s a commotion in the hall outside the room.

James comes in, looking pis sed as hell, because after him come twelve Council Enforcers,

I immediately growl and back up, taking Leah with me until we’re almost cornered. Which is definitely not ideal.

I know I could most likely rip through every wolf in this room and come out victorious.

Except then the Council wouldn’t just send out Enforcers to detain me

They’d send out a hit squad to put me down like a rabid dog

I knew the Council would come for me

imagined they’d come for Leal

the Council had planned for

that they want to take Leah as

that’s a

motion for the Enforcers to hold

to end for you, Alpha Rathborn?” Petyr asks “Is it how

Da mn it.

me by the balls,

I say, and the words aren’t much

Samsen and Petyr pale a little, though they try to cover

of that. I can tell

situation

right now, in this room, he isn’t

I am

slowly straighten and relax

need to show them how

They already know it.

“But know the only reason I’ll be sitting there in that cell is because I want to be. No bars-silver or otherwise-can keep me captive

almost funny to watch them all waiting for someone else to do it,

hold

quickly snaps silver cuffs around

making the cuffs snap apart and drop to the floor like they were made. of

audibly and jerks backward from me, as if