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.

my testimony, so I

Aaron on the stand or ask him

himself.

a look of

anything as the

against him.

him to say

times he looks across at me, as if he can

mating bond going both

can. I can certainly feel the quiet fury building within him. But he knows exploding

wrapping up, I can’t take it any longer.

jumping to my feet. “Aaron is

All of this so called evidence has been concocted to

look guilty.”

say it very loud, and there’s this swell of murmurs that ripple through the crowd, I still

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

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

Council are scared of him!”

the swell of voices gets louder, and I

of the Council.

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

hall.”

want to argue some more, desperation and fear for what

happen to Aaron are surging

in a commanding Alpha

be here to see what happens, so I relent,

my mate with every single atom of

take a short recess to

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

privacy.

chatter immediately erupts through

if they expect the Council to come right back and they don’t want to miss a second of

that we have an audience,

to rush across the space

me and Aaron.