Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 252

LEAH

All I want to do is rush across the hall and pull Aaron out

of that silver dock they’ve sat him in. To hold him, to know

everything is going to be okay.

All I can do is sit there and tell myself that justice will be done,

and Aaron will be found innocent.

It’s been days, and I never heard anything else from Karolina.

I don’t know what she’s been doing, or if she’s managed to

help Aaron in anyway.

I had hoped she would be able to stop this trial altogether, but

maybe that wasn’t within her power.

Still, since I was brought into the hall and forced to sit as far away from Aaron as possible, I’ve been trying to catch Karolina’s eye, but she’s been keeping her attention split

between Aaron and whichever Councilmember is talking at any given time and the longer it goes on, the colder my blood

starts to run.

Eventually I have to wonder if she tried to help us at all.

What if she was just humoring me the day we spoke?

The trial itself quickly becomes a blur.

The Council have brought together witnesses who have to be false, testifying that they knew Aaron had plans to kill Tobin for his power and a seat on the Council.

They play a tape that’s recorded from Aaron’s interview in the cells, and it’s clear to anyone with half a brain that they’ve edited it heavily and spliced it together to make Aaron appear guilty, threatening and almost unhinged, like he’s already half

gone rogue.

testimony, so I can start clearing

don’t even put Aaron on the stand or ask him

himself.

of stony detachment on

as the

against him.

willing him to say something,

me,

our mating bond

within him. But he knows exploding or interjecting at this point will

to be wrapping up, I can’t take

jumping to my feet. “Aaron is

this so called evidence

look guilty.”

very loud, and there’s this swell of

directly to me. “This won’t help. Remember what I

just going to stand here while my mate, an innocent man, gets

Council are scared of him!”

gets louder, and I can tell

of

the gavel. “Compose yourself, or you will be

hall.”

to argue some more, desperation and fear

to happen to Aaron are

a commanding Alpha voice. “Do as he

need to be here to see what happens, so I

fighting for my mate with every single atom of my

take a short recess to

off stage to the back area where

privacy.

through the hall, but

as if they expect the Council to come right back and they don’t want to miss a second of the unfolding drama.

an audience, I get up and

nearby to rush across

me and Aaron.

stands when I reach him and extends his arms through