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.

I bury my

got dragged into this,” he says, his voice rough.

do anything to keep you safe. You and

Aaron urges me to look up at

“I’ll always love you. In this

next.”

to reply, but I’m

me gently, tenderly, and I

soon, and then the Enforcers are telling Aaron his time is up.

but I’m frozen, in denial that

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

aches and I’m worried my heart is going to

once I get all that out of my system,

kicks in.

not going to sit here crying and let my

from me.

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

the hell up, but I demand to

as the

later, the

Karolina walks in.

quite the commotion,” Karolina says, crossing her

dispassionately.

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

to your sense of justice.

care about the future of wolves and the

Council is more interested in

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