Page 62 of The Alpha's Sin
“Don’t be afraid, baby,” he says hoarsely.
“Shut up, you fucking lawbreaker!” one of the guards snarls, yanking hard on the chain.
Logan stumbles forward and is forced to his knees in front of the dais.
Townsend peers down at him with mock solemnity.
“You stand accused of breaking the Unbreakable Laws of our people by lying with and impregnating your own sister. How do you plead?”
Anger sparks in Logan’s eyes.
“The Unbreakable Laws shouldn’t apply in this case! And what makes you think I broke them?”
“Call the witnesses.”
Kyle and Leroy shuffle out, smirking like they’ve already won. I glare at them both—those bastards must have reported on Logan after they saw me pregnant! Sure enough, when the Packmaster asks them to present their evidence, they both turn to stare at me.
“We saw her,” Kyle says, pointing. “Before Christmas she was fine. You know—normal-looking. But just last week we saw her again and now she’s pregnant!”
“Yeah,” Leroy chimes in. “He musta got her pregnant ‘cause she was in Heat. We could both smell it!”
“And she ain’t his wife,” Kyle adds. “She’s his brother’s wife. I know, ‘cause I’m friends with him—with Dirk Hayes.”
I squeeze my hands into fists. Of course they’re friends with Dirk. Rats stick together, right? Assholes.
Townsend nods at them smugly and then turns his attention back to Logan.
“Well, well—it sounds like an open-and-shut case. How do you plead now, Hayes?”
Logan glares up at him.
“You know exactly what these two are like—how much they can be trusted around a female in Heat. Did they tell you they attacked her? Did they admit I had to Shift and fight them off to keep them from dragging her away?”
The Packmaster shifts uneasily in his seat but waves a hand.
“That’s immaterial. You still broke the Laws.”
“Immaterial?” Logan snarls. “You’re just going to take their word for it? These two were expelled from the Pack for a reason! Poppy was abandoned by my brother when she was already pregnant. I took her in and gave her shelter. You can’t prove I broke the Laws with her!”
The room ripples with murmurs. For a moment, my heart leaps. Surely they can’t argue with that! Surely they’ll have to let him go?—
But then another Alpha steps forward, dragging a reluctant Dr. Elizabeth with him.
“Tell us what you found in Poppy Hayes’ last ultrasound,” he orders.
She shoots me an apologetic look.
“I really don’t think?—”
“Just answer the question, Doctor.” The Packmaster glares at her, his piggy eyes narrowing. “And remember this is a Pack Court—if you lie, you can be sanctioned or even expelled from the Pack.”
Dr. Elizabeth clearly doesn’t want to answer, but she has no choice. She twists her hands together as she talks.
“Poppy Hayes is carrying two babies. One is a female Were child and the other…well the other is an Alpha pup.”
There’s a low gasp from the people around me and several of them shoot me some extremely unfriendly and judgmental looks.
“Indeed.” Townsend pounces on her words. “Since Logan is an Alpha and his brother Dirk is a Beta—and a Beta cannot sire an Alpha pup—the second child must belong to Logan Hayes.”
