Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 10

“I thought you left.”

He stands by the door, watching me as I’ve been working from my phone, where I’ve been alternating between reading the financial reports he left queued on his computer, and

transferring the money.

“I hope you didn’t do something you’ll regret,” he says.

Like handing over millions of dollars that my husband likely considers ‘ours’ to my father-his enemy?

“No. Of course not,” I say easily.

He snorts.

I point to two companies whose shares we’ve both been following for a while. “You marked these to offload. Is there something wrong with the financial projections?”

He nods. “Both companies are about to go belly up.”

Oh no. I bought ten thousand shares of each on behalf of my father’s pack last month. I don’t exactly hide that I make those investments, but technically it’s all managed by my father, I

just pass along information from my research or that Aaron

shares with me.

He smirks. Then he comes back into the room, tilts up my chin with his big hand and kisses me. “I’m sorry,” he whispers.

I’m pretty sure my mouth is still hanging open as he leaves.

Those two words…

To hear him say them, to apologize.

Aaron doesn’t ‘do’ apologies.

And just moments ago he was smirking. What exactly is he apologizing for, I wonder. Not that it matters. It’s enough that he gave me the words. Finally.

I sink back into the chair. Shocked. Elated.

Feeling those broken bits of my heart coming back together

again.

moments. The

glances. The way he holds me at night,

look, with one

my

my

cold and controlled and closed

glimpses

what give me hope.

more to our

really dangerous for a

*

*

AARON

wait in the

can hear Leah’s

as

to break her

is too strong

her heart is big and open and her trusting nature…now that is a prime thing

I have every intention of keeping her where she

belongs.

4/7

Here.

us, I swear I can feel her joy, like some

blinks and I see that funds have been transferred. I’ve never micromanaged her finances before, because I didn’t have a reason to. She doesn’t spend a lot of

or expensive jewelry. She sends money

funds she had from her dowry

to manage them as she chose to.

of money when she was pledged to me. We’ve grown that amount a hundred times.

over.

But from the moment she went ‘missing’

cell and I now get an

accounts. From coins for a game on her iphone to Amazon

of the charges are subscriptions for regular,

and necessities. But that account transfer

to her dad…