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.

blond hair is down today and it

like some goddamn shampoo

probably dance on

thought saddens me.

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

and then snatches the

the compost

we wouldn’t just bleed you once a month, it’d be

which

sins.”

to reason with her. “I

committed, Jessica.”

of my parents are dead.

dead. I’ve lost cousins and kin

that way.”

She huffs.

You’re a human. For the life of

why he even bothers to

use to this pack.

That hurts.

isn’t ashamed or apologetic for her actions, trying

he was

to be some sanctity for

We are

has to count

you’re doing, Jessica… it isn’t good for either of

shakes her head at me. “I

if you think that Aaron cares, then you’re

finished with being nice to her.

flash and it’s the

down my arms as she grabs me and hurls

across the

pantry door and stay there on the ground,

“Weak, pathetic human.”