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.

called to give my testimony, so I can start clearing up all these falsehoods,

on the stand or ask

himself.

with a look of

say anything as the evidence builds

against him.

him to say something,

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

mating

he can. I can certainly feel the quiet fury building within him. But he knows exploding or interjecting at this point will

seem to be wrapping up, I

travesty!” I shout, jumping to my feet. “Aaron is

so called evidence has been

look

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

directly to me. “This

here while my mate, an innocent man, gets

the Council are scared of

the swell of voices gets louder, and I can

of the

shouts, banging the gavel. “Compose

hall.”

desperation and fear for

are surging through me like

a commanding Alpha voice. “Do

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

for my mate with every single atom

Council will now take a short recess to

announces, before the Councilmembers all get up and file off stage to the back

privacy.

erupts through the hall,

stays seated, as if they expect the Council to come right back and they don’t want to miss a second of the unfolding drama.

that we have an audience, I get

rush across

me and Aaron.