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 tender

and possessive glances. The way he holds me at night, or does

a single look, with one kiss,

of my body.

my mouth.

and controlled and

these glimpses of warmth…

give me

more to our

hope is really dangerous for a dying girl

*

*

AARON

wait in the hallway

Leah’s

as

to break her

is too strong

trusting nature…now that is a prime thing for me to exploit.

have every intention of keeping her

belongs.

4/7

Here.

I swear I can feel her

blinks and I see that funds have been transferred. I’ve never micromanaged her finances before, because I didn’t have a

fancy clothes or expensive jewelry. She sends money

she had from

to manage

money when she was pledged to me. We’ve grown that

over.

of my wife’s. But from the moment she went ‘missing’

her whereabouts with her cell

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

are subscriptions for

But

to her dad…