Chapter 249

Tears start trickling down my face.

“Aaron, we can’t let this happen!” I say desperately. “We have to prove you’re innocent.”

“I know, Leah, and believe me, James is working on it, along

with a few other people who owe me favors. But we can’t

count on them being able to convince the Council when it

comes to the actual trial. It’s going to be a sham. They want

an excuse to get rid of me and what I represent. So when

the time comes, I need you to promise to break our mating

bond. Maybe it’ll kill both of us. But I know you’re strong and

determined. It’s the only chance we’ve got to make sure one of us goes home to Ethan.”

I nod through the tears, but it’s not enough for Aaron.

“Promise me, Leah,” he says in a gentle, but firm voice.

“I promise,” I managed to utter, though my voice is breaking

with sadness.

bury my face into his shoulder,

got dragged into this,” he says,

to keep you safe. You and Ethan. You know that,

urges me to look up at him.

says. “I’ll always love you. In this life and the

next.”

want to reply, but I’m

I can feel all of that love

too soon, and then the Enforcers are

I’m frozen, in denial that

goodbye, leans down to kiss me on the head, and then he walks out, leaving me alone

my chest aches and I’m worried my heart is

that out of my system, my

kicks in.

to sit here crying and let

from me.

door, banging on it and yelling until finally one of the guards they left

to shut the hell up, but I demand to see Karolina.

will be granted as the guard glares at me

minutes later, the door

Karolina walks in.

causing quite the commotion,” Karolina says, crossing her arms

dispassionately.

the right thing in asking to see her, but it seemed like maybe she was trying to help me in the past, and I don’t have any other

to appeal to your sense of

the future of wolves and the packs.

Council is

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