Bad Love An Alpha’s Regret

It’s been days down in this damp, dim cell with only Axel Sawyer as company across the corridor, apart from the silent, stone–faced Enforcers who bring our meals and won’t answer any of our questions.

Within ten minutes of me being brought back down here after finally seeing Leah, Samsen and Petyr brought a couple of other Councilmembers down to act as witnesses while they questioned me and tried to make me incriminate myself.

But it’s a bit hard to incriminate myself when I haven’t actually done anything wrong.

Still, I’ve got no doubt they’ll find some way to twist things I said to use as ‘evidence‘ of my apparent nefarious plotting to gain a seat on the Council and overthrow the current regime simply because I have the power of three Alphas.

They can’t conceive of me not doing that.

They can’t fathom the idea that I just want to run my packs and live my life quietly with my mate and our son.

Because I know every single power–hungry member of the Council would overthrow their fellow Councilmembers if they had even a fraction of the power I’ve got, so it’s impossible for them to imagine in their tiny selfish brains that someone might not want that.

Despite my initial reluctance, Axel and I have chatted quite a bit back and forth.

It’s the only way to keep my sanity when I’m down here and I don’t know what’s happening with Leah.

I don’t know how Axel has managed to stay sane after spending months here alone.

Of course, he’s not mated and he’s apparently already rogue, so maybe he’s got no sanity left to lose.

However, he’s proven to be pretty smart and level–headed for a rogue wolf.

He told me that the rumors about what he did in Texas weren’t

anything else, and when

on what I’ve calculated is the fifth day when the doors open and a

hopeful that something is finally

I know that change is

for me.

I ask as Samsen

and hands me a new suit on

for picking it

me. “Your

I

giving me any

then allow them the illusion of control by clicking cuffs around my wrists–obviously

me from the cell.

as I step out into the

corridor.

him a

I’m confident about

me in a way that looks legitimate so it won’t cause unease or unrest

a warning to any other Alpha who ever considers taking on the power of

taken up to the ground floor, I find the Council

Alphas and Lunas and Betas and regular wolves everywhere. It’s like some sort of meeting has been called or election

main hall that’s been set up to more resemble a courtroom, it becomes apparent that everyone is here to watch the trial unfold, because they all start filling all the rows of

this kind of open booth. It’s