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.

down today

her like some goddamn shampoo commercial. Ugh. This

probably dance on my

saddens

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

snatches the apple from my

into the compost

be trash. And if I had my way, we wouldn’t just

which your pack can

sins.”

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

committed, Jessica.”

parents are dead. And my

lost cousins and kin too.

that way.”

She huffs.

you know of it? You’re a human. For the life of me,

why he even bothers to keep you around.

use to this pack. No use

That hurts.

apologetic for her actions, trying

being fair, he was hers

to be some sanctity for our relationship. Even

We are married.

count

it isn’t

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

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

nice to

the only warning

scratch down my arms as she grabs me and hurls

across the

the pantry door and stay there on

“Weak, pathetic human.”