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.

keep waiting to be called to give my testimony, so I can

on the stand or ask him to

himself.

with a look of stony detachment

anything as the evidence

against him.

him to say

he looks across at me, as if he

our mating bond

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

be wrapping up, I can’t take

jumping

of this so called evidence

look guilty.”

swell of murmurs that ripple through the crowd, I still hear him loud

talking directly to me. “This

not just going to stand here while my mate, an innocent man, gets condemned

are scared

of voices gets louder, and I can tell I’ve

most of the Council.

banging the gavel. “Compose yourself, or you will be removed from

hall.”

argue some more, desperation and fear

to Aaron are surging through me like acid.

says in a commanding Alpha voice.

don’t want to be taken away, I need to be here to see what happens, so I relent,

I should be fighting for my mate with every single atom of

take a short recess to

all get up and file off stage to the back area where they can have some

privacy.

immediately erupts through the hall,

if they expect the Council to come right back and they don’t want to miss a

have an audience, I get

nearby to rush

me and Aaron.

reach him and extends