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.

are you smiling about?”

It’s Jessica.

down today and it glows

behind her like some goddamn

probably dance on my grave.

saddens me.

But I am. And I have

snatches the apple from

it into the compost

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

which your

sins.”

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

were committed, Jessica.”

my parents are dead. And my eldest brother.”

I’ve lost cousins and kin too. War is awful

that way.”

She huffs.

a

he even bothers to keep you around. You’re

to this pack. No use to Aaron.”

That hurts.

ashamed or apologetic for

I’m being fair, he was hers to

be some sanctity for our

mated. We are married.

has to count for something.

isn’t good

shakes her head at me. “I don’t care about you, Leah.

does. And if you think that Aaron cares,

nice to her.

eyes flash and it’s the only warning I

my arms as she grabs me

the

and

“Weak, pathetic human.”