Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 255

LEAH

I still don’t feel steady as the Enforcers march us out of the room and back to the main hall, that is now empty of an audience.

At least we won’t have to do this part in front of all the regional Alphas and their Lunas.

Probably the only reason is because the Council keeps the method to breaking a mating bond tightly under wraps, only allowing it under strict circumstances that don’t crop up very often.

I feel like I’m walking in a nightmare.

All I can think over and over is that this can’t be happening.

Things can’t have spiraled this far out of control.

There has to be some way to stop this before our mating bond

is broken and Aaron is executed under the next full moon.

But no last–minute stay of execution–literal or figurative- comes about.

Aaron and I are left standing on the stage hand–in–hand, while Samsen sets an old, leatherbound book on the table

next to a silver ceremonial knife.

There’s only a few Councilmembers present–including Petyr,

Aaron’s guilt, while the ones who thought he was innocent have made themselves scarce,

to proceed with the ceremony?” Samsen asks indifferently.

this over

destroying

evidence.

have a choice, do we?

Aaron’s tone or his arrogance, however, he turns to pick

is

bond. You will draw blood with this silver knife,

and then mark Luna Leah with your

bite to sever the bond.”

nods stiffly, and my heart starts hammering in my chest.

want to

want to run away.

to get down on my knees and beg for them to have mercy, to hold the trial again, fairly this time, but I know all those words will fall on deaf

to be

this so I can go home to him, even if it means living without my mate and

myself to breathe slowly and not

meaty part of his palm,

of the Rathborn bloodline, deny you, Leah Roberts Rathborn, of the Roberts bloodline. No longer shall our bond exclude us from all others. No longer do I recognize you as my mate. No

own.”

a wrench inside me, like something starting to rend, and from the subtle flinch Aaron gives,

done in blood, so it will be undone in