Bad Love An Alpha’s Regret

All I want to do is rush across the hall and pull Aaron out

of that silver dock they’ve sat him in. To hold him, to know

everything is going to be okay.

All I can do is sit there and tell myself that justice will be done,

and Aaron will be found innocent.

It’s been days, and I never heard anything else from Karolina.

I don’t know what she’s been doing, or if she’s managed to

help Aaron in anyway.

I had hoped she would be able to stop this trial altogether, but

maybe that wasn’t within her power.

Still, since I was brought into the hall and forced to sit as far away from Aaron as possible, I’ve been trying to catch Karolina’s eye, but she’s been keeping her attention split

between Aaron and whichever Councilmember is talking at any given time and the longer it goes on, the colder my blood

starts to run.

Eventually I have to wonder if she tried to help us at all.

What if she was just humoring me the day we spoke?

The trial itself quickly becomes a blur.

The Council have brought together witnesses who have to be false, testifying that they knew Aaron had plans to kill Tobin for his power and a seat on the Council.

They play a tape that’s recorded from Aaron’s interview in the cells, and it’s clear to anyone with half a brain that they’ve edited it heavily and spliced it together to make Aaron appear guilty, threatening and almost unhinged, like he’s already half

gone rogue.

keep waiting to be called to give my testimony, so I can start clearing up all

Aaron on the stand or ask him

himself.

there with a look of stony detachment

doesn’t say anything as the evidence builds and builds

against him.

find myself willing him to

times he looks across at me, as if he can feel

with our mating bond

within him. But he knows exploding or interjecting at this point will only make

I realize things seem to be wrapping up, I can’t take

is a travesty!” I shout, jumping to my

of this so called evidence

look

he doesn’t say it very loud, and there’s this swell of murmurs that ripple through the crowd, I still hear

to me and talking directly to me. “This won’t help. Remember what I told

stand here while my mate, an innocent man, gets condemned for crimes he didn’t commit

the Council are

louder, and

of the

Leah!” Samsen shouts, banging the gavel. “Compose yourself, or you will

hall.”

more, desperation and

Aaron are surging through me like acid.

commanding Alpha voice. “Do as

here to see what happens, so I relent, even though my instincts–my

mate with every single atom of my being.

will now take a

Councilmembers all get up and file off stage to the back area where they can

privacy.

immediately erupts through the hall,

Council to come right back and they don’t

an audience,

nearby to rush across the space

me and Aaron.