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.

give my testimony, so I can start clearing up all these falsehoods, but it doesn’t happen.

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

himself.

sits there with a look of stony detachment

anything as the evidence builds and builds

against him.

him to say

looks across at me, as

our mating

I can certainly feel the quiet fury building within him. But he knows exploding or

to be wrapping up, I can’t take it any

a travesty!” I shout, jumping to my feet. “Aaron

called

him look

of murmurs that ripple

talking directly to me.

going to stand here while my mate, an innocent man, gets condemned for crimes

Council are

swell of voices gets louder, and

of the

shouts, banging the gavel. “Compose yourself, or you

hall.”

desperation

to Aaron are

Alpha voice. “Do as he says.”

so I relent, even though my instincts–my inner wolf -is telling me it’s the

fighting for my mate with every

a

and file off stage to the back area where they

privacy.

through the

as if they expect the Council to come right back and

audience, I get up and

nearby to rush across the space between

me and Aaron.

and extends his arms through