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.

these moments. The

The way he holds me at night, or does

single look, with

of my body.

touch my

controlled

glimpses of

what give me hope.

maybe there is more to

dangerous for a dying girl

*

*

AARON

wait in the hallway and

can hear Leah’s shuttered

as

her is not with force.

is too strong

and open and her trusting nature…now that is a prime thing for me

intention of keeping her where she

belongs.

4/7

Here.

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

never micromanaged her finances before, because I didn’t have a reason to. She doesn’t spend

into fancy clothes or expensive jewelry. She sends

home but the funds she had from

to manage them as she

was pledged to

over.

wife’s. But from the moment she went ‘missing’ last week, that

track her whereabouts with her cell

any changes to her accounts. From coins for a game on her iphone to Amazon orders she

are

and necessities. But that account transfer

to her dad…