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.

my

this,” he says, his

safe. You

me to

says. “I’ll always love

next.”

reply, but I’m too choked

kisses me gently, tenderly, and I can feel all

too soon, and then the Enforcers

gets to his feet, but I’m frozen, in denial that we’re even here

last murmured goodbye, leans down to kiss me on the head, and

my heart is going to

get all that out of my system,

kicks in.

not going to sit here crying and

from me.

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

shut the hell up, but I

the

minutes later, the door opens and

Karolina walks in.

Karolina says,

dispassionately.

done 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

to your sense of justice.

about the future of wolves and

we move forward if the Council is more interested in

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