~ Alpha Bastian's POV ~
We made it back to the packhouse in an irritated silence - Laila was rubbing her baby bump and staring out the window of the SUV, Jasper was glaring at the notebook in his hands and scribbling furiously, and Julien was sadly looking down at his hands folded together in his lap. I just tried to focus on the drive home and not on the fact that my mate has now been sentenced to captivity in the dungeons until birth and then either has choose to leave the pack forever or d*e. It took everything in me not to jump on the council members and rib out their throats for the verdict they came up with whenever they walked into the front of the court building before Laila did.
My mate came out of the back just in time to distract Baskier and myself. She quickly walked up to o
