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

got dragged into this,” he says,

keep you safe. You and

Aaron urges me

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

next.”

but I’m

and I can feel

soon, and then the Enforcers

denial that we’re

murmured goodbye, leans down to kiss me on the head, and then he walks

my chest aches and I’m worried my heart is going to give out on me because

once I get all that out of my

kicks in.

crying and let

from me.

until finally one of the guards they left out in the hallway opens

to shut the hell up, but I demand to

will be granted as the guard glares at me

later, the door opens

Karolina walks in.

the commotion,” Karolina says, crossing her

dispassionately.

maybe she was trying to help me in the past, and I don’t have any other good options right

appeal to your sense of justice.

you care about the future of wolves and the packs.

forward if the Council is more

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