Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 11

LEAH

I’m not going to lie, I feel a little happy.

Please don’t judge. I get it. I’m THAT girl.

The dumb one. The oh-you-got-your-heart-broke-again one.

The one who sits home waiting for him to call.

But what most people don’t know is that Aaron was the one to

sit up with me when I had nightmares. He was the one to insist

I learn to trade and to obtain my Series 7 license so I’d have a

career. Aaron is the one to stare me in the eyes everytime he

joins his body to mine.

And, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know it’s just sex.

But it’s not.

It’s more than that.

I know it. I believe it.

And deep down, I love him.

As rough and cold as he can be, I know there’s more to him

than he lets the world see.

2/5

I head into the kitchen and grab an apple from the giant bowl

in the middle of the prep table. It’s ripe and red and sweet.

hell are you

It’s Jessica.

is down today

some goddamn shampoo commercial. Ugh. This wolf.

probably dance on

saddens me.

wife. But I am. And I have been for a long time now. You don’t have to keep making things so hard for

snorts and then snatches the

into the

be trash. And if I had my way, we wouldn’t just bleed you once a month, it’d

world in which

sins.”

try once more to reason with her. “I was a child

were committed,

of my parents are dead. And

mother is dead. I’ve lost cousins and kin too.

that way.”

She huffs.

know of it? You’re a human. For the life of me, I

to keep you around. You’re of

pack. No use to Aaron.”

That hurts.

or apologetic for her

If I’m being fair, he was

sanctity for our relationship. Even if

We are married.

to count for

it isn’t good for either of

head at me. “I don’t care about you,

if you think that Aaron cares, then you’re even dumber

nice to

eyes flash and it’s the only warning I

my arms as she grabs me and

the kitchen.

the pantry door and stay there on the

“Weak, pathetic human.”