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.

I can start clearing up

Aaron on the stand

himself.

sits there with a look of stony detachment on

doesn’t say anything as the evidence builds and

against him.

find myself willing him to say something,

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

knows, with our mating

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

realize things seem to be wrapping up, I

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

called

look guilty.”

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

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

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

the Council are

swell of voices gets louder, and

of the Council.

the gavel. “Compose yourself, or you will be removed from

hall.”

argue some more, desperation and fear for what

are

Alpha voice. “Do as he

want to be taken away, I need to be here to see what happens, so I relent, even though my instincts–my inner wolf

mate with

take a

Councilmembers all get up and file off stage to the

privacy.

erupts through

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

we have an audience, I get up and dodge the

rush across the space between

me and Aaron.