Bad Love: An Alpha's Regret (Leah and Aaron) novel Chapter 257

Chapter 257 

AARON 

I thought absorbing Alpha powers the first time had been painful. 

It had nothing on the absolute tearing going on within me once the mating bond broke. 

It feels like my body is being ripped apart at a cellular level. 

But through all that, I’m holding onto Leah, because I know she’s going through the same thing. 

I have no idea how long it goes on for, only that it doesn’t feel like its ever going to end. 

Somehow, through the pain, I start wondering if I’m going to 

survive this after all. 

Worse, I wonder if Leah will survive this. 

I know she’s strong, but she’s been through so much already. 

Eventually, however, the pain starts to feel less intense and I think maybe I’m through the worst of it. 

I rouse myself enough to look blearily down at Leah, who is 

limp and pale in my arms. 

I’m not even sure she’s breathing. 

“Leah,” I whisper, my voice hoarse. 

However, before I can properly check that my mate–no, not my mate any longer–is still alive, some Enforcers step up and drag us apart. 

“Take Alpha Rathborn back to his cell,” Samsen says somewhere nearby. 

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“No, wait!” I protest, trying to fight against the Enforcer’s hold, 

but I’m as weak as a newborn lamb. 

Fighting to survive the effects of breaking the mating bond has sapped all my strength. 

“I need to know she’s okay!” I yell as the Enforcers drag me 

away. 

Samsen and Petyr step closer to Leah, laying where the other 

Enforcer left her after pulling us apart. 

Petyr kneels down and presses his fingers into Leah’s neck, and then looks up at Sämsen with a shake of his head. 

My heart stops. 

“Is she okay?” I shout, but the Enforcers are still dragging me away. “Tell me she’s alive!” 

Neither Samsen nor Petyr bother to answer me, but Petyr 

drags a cloth from the nearby table and drapes it over Leah’s still form. 

No. 

This can’t be happening. 

She can’t be dead. 

She was meant to survive to go home to Ethan. 

Breaking the mating bond was meant to save her, not kill her. 

If Leah is gone and I’m to be executed, what will happen to 

Ethan? 

I need to see her. 

I need to check for myself that she’s really gone, but I’m too wiped from the hours of unrelenting pain to fight against the two Enforcers dragging me out of the hall and back down to my cell. 

They unceremoniously dump me on the floor and then march out again, loudly clanging the cell door behind themselves. 

“Say, you don’t look so good,” Axel drawls from across the 

corridor. “They’ve worked me over good a time or two, but I ain’t never been dragged back to my cell.” 

I roll over so I can stare at him, and he must see something in my face, because his expression hardens.