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

It’s Jessica.

blond hair is down today and it

like some goddamn shampoo commercial. Ugh. This

dance on my grave.

thought saddens me.

be 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 keep making things so hard for

snorts and then snatches the apple from my

into the

You’ll always be trash. And if I had my way, we wouldn’t just bleed

which your pack

sins.”

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

committed, Jessica.”

parents are dead. And my eldest brother.”

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

that way.”

She huffs.

it? You’re a human. For the life of

he even bothers to keep

to this pack. No use to Aaron.”

That hurts.

ashamed or apologetic for her actions, trying

he was hers

some sanctity for our relationship. Even if

mated. We are married.

to count for

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

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

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

being nice to

and it’s the only warning

as she grabs

across the

slam into the pantry door and

“Weak, pathetic human.”