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

come

Council had planned for me, as long as

to take Leah as well,

that’s a

for the Enforcers

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

Da mn it.

got me by the balls, and they know

of you,” I say, and the words aren’t much more than

pale a little, though they try to cover

Petyr yells, and I get some satisfaction out of that. I

situation

right now, in this room, he isn’t the top

I am

straighten and

don’t need to show them

They already know it.

I’ll be sitting there in that cell is because I

the Enforcer wolves to restrain me, and it’s almost funny to watch them all waiting for someone else to do it, until Petyr finally grabs some poor guy and hauls him forward, then shoves him

strut forward and hold out my hands

then quickly snaps silver cuffs around my

arms slightly, then twist my wrists, making the cuffs snap apart and

backward from me, as if he’s worried I’m going to snap him