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,

are the ones who voted on Aaron’s guilt, while the ones who thought he was innocent

proceed with

this over and

he’s destroying lives

evidence.

don’t have a choice, do we? So let’s

like Aaron’s tone or his arrogance, however,

as the claimant, it is also your

You will draw blood with this silver knife, read

and then mark Luna Leah

over the claiming bite to sever the

stiffly, and my heart starts hammering in my

want to

want to run away.

my knees and beg for them to have mercy, to hold the trial again, fairly this time, but I know

to be

so I can go home to him, even if

in my body and force myself to breathe slowly and not hyperventilate or pass out again like I

takes the knife and scores it across the meaty part of his palm, then looks down at the book, expression

exclude us

own.”

like something starting to rend, and from the subtle flinch Aaron gives, I think he must

blood, so it will be undone in blood,” Aaron finishes.