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 smiling

It’s Jessica.

blond hair is down today

some goddamn shampoo commercial.

on my grave.

saddens

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

and then snatches the apple from my

into the compost

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

there is no world in which

sins.”

once more to reason with her. “I was

were committed, Jessica.”

my parents are dead. And my eldest

dead. I’ve lost cousins and

that way.”

She huffs.

You’re a

bothers to keep you around. You’re of

use to this pack. No use to

That hurts.

apologetic for

If I’m being fair, he was hers to begin

needs to be some sanctity for our relationship. Even if

mated. We

count

isn’t good for either of us.”

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

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

with being nice to

eyes flash and it’s the only warning

claws scratch down my arms as she grabs me and

the

and stay there on the ground,

“Weak, pathetic human.”