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.

to be called to give my testimony, so I can start clearing up all these falsehoods, but it doesn’t

Aaron on the

himself.

of stony detachment on

the evidence

against him.

find myself willing him to say

he looks across at me,

with our mating bond going

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

realize things seem to be wrapping up, I

jumping to my feet. “Aaron is

so called evidence has been concocted

look guilty.”

say it very loud, and there’s this swell of murmurs that ripple through the crowd, I still hear him loud

and talking directly to me. “This won’t help.

just going to stand here while my mate, an innocent man, gets condemned for crimes he didn’t

Council are scared of

of voices gets louder, and

most of

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

hall.”

to argue some more, desperation

to Aaron are surging through me like

Alpha voice. “Do

want to be taken away, I need to be here to see what happens, so I relent, even though

my mate with every single atom of my being.

will now take a short

up and file off stage to the back area where they

privacy.

chatter immediately erupts through the hall, but

Council to come right back and they don’t

an audience, I get up

nearby to rush across

me and Aaron.

I reach him and extends his arms through the