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.

blond hair is down today and it glows beautifully,

goddamn shampoo commercial. Ugh. This wolf.

on my

saddens

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 keep making things

the apple

it into the compost bin.

I had my way, we wouldn’t just bleed you once

in which your pack

sins.”

her. “I was a child when those

committed, Jessica.”

my parents are dead. And my

dead. I’ve lost cousins and kin too. War

that way.”

She huffs.

you know of it? You’re a human. For

to

this pack. No use to

That hurts.

or apologetic for her actions, trying to steal

I’m being fair, he was

some sanctity for our

aren’t mated. We are married.

has to count for something.

isn’t good for either

at me. “I don’t

No one here does. And if you think that Aaron cares,

finished with being nice to her. “You’re

and it’s the only warning I

arms as she grabs

the

the pantry door and stay there on the

“Weak, pathetic human.”