Topping the Enemy (Werewolf Story)

Chapter 53: Bleeding Love

Harry

"Please Lan, don't let them execute my mate! I beg of you!"

Ares' voice echoed through the room as he literally threw himself at Landon's feet, begging him to show mercy. Unfortunately, it isn't up to Landon to decide Spencer's fate. He is a Blood Moon pack member who allegedly committed a crime under wolf law.

His fate lies with my father, the Alpha.

But the law is clear.

Not that any of this matters to me. I refuse to believe that Spencer shot my mate. I cannot even imagine him holding a gun, let alone doing something like this. It's too much for me.

He was the one who told me to accept my mate! Why go through all this trouble just to take my mate away from me? The same way his mate was taken from him. It seems too cruel for me to even imagine it, let alone think that he orchestrated the whole thing.

I know he was grieving at the time. I can understand the enormous pain he was in. But I cannot believe this, I refuse to. There is just no way that Spencer is behind the shooting.

Delta Saunders took his son home after some time. Ares was beyond destroyed. He could barely walk. I don't know how or if he can survive this, to be honest. Especially after having waited for his mate for four years.

He was so happy just an hour ago. Now he is being carried by his father, who fortunately was here for him. He was going to work today, but now I don't know if he can do anything except cry.

At least on this, we are the same.

I am crying desperate tears of sadness right now.

I know I said I wanted to execute the culprit, but I can't bring myself to want him dead. It just doesn't register with me that Spencer could be responsible for the attack on Landon.

Not him.

Not for the world.

But right now the pain is tearing me up inside. It really is. I thought I was done with this type of pain after the drone strike. I guess not so much.

There is one major problem in my denial.

I know Lucas Wilmont.

I may not know him like Aaron does, nor do I claim to. But he is a proud man. He is an overachiever. He made it his mission to succeed where most others would fail.

I know for a fact that he would never, ever in a million years, risk his reputation by coming here to make an arrest unless he had solid evidence to back him up.

Especially considering who Spencer is and what he means to me. I am not implying I am special because I am a Staedler. Or because I am mated to the Alpha of Regency Falls.

I am simply stating that Lucas wouldn't have come here - my father wouldn't have authorized this endeavor - if he hadn't strong evidence against Spencer. Damning evidence.

I strongly believe that Spencer is innocent.

But unfortunately, I can't overrule an official investigation. Not even Landon can. Much less not in his pack.

This is what's really bothering me.

You should have seen the way Lucas looked at Spencer when he said: 'Did you really think I wasn't going to find out?'

I thought he was looking at Ares because they were close to each other, but it was Spencer all along. My mind cannot wrap around that fact. No matter how much I know what Kevin meant to him and how the pain of his passing must've hit him hard.