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.

the hell are you smiling

It’s Jessica.

long, blond hair is down today and it glows beautifully,

her like some goddamn

probably dance on my

saddens me.

have to be mean, Jessica. I didn’t ask to be Aaron’s wife. But I am. And I have been for a long time now. You don’t have to

the

into the

my way, we wouldn’t

is no world in which

sins.”

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

were committed,

of my parents are dead. And

dead. I’ve lost cousins

that way.”

She huffs.

it? You’re a human. For the life of

even bothers to keep you around. You’re

to this pack.

That hurts.

ashamed or apologetic for her actions, trying to

fair, he was hers to begin with.

some sanctity for our relationship. Even if

We are married.

to count for

it isn’t good

at me. “I don’t care about

you think that Aaron cares, then you’re even dumber than you look.”

finished with being nice to her. “You’re

and it’s the only

my arms as she

the

into the pantry door and stay there on the ground,

“Weak, pathetic human.”