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.

the hell are

It’s Jessica.

long, blond hair is down

some goddamn shampoo

on

thought saddens

to be Aaron’s wife. But I am. And I have been for a long time now. You don’t have

snatches the apple from my hand.

it into the compost

way, we wouldn’t

there is no world in which

sins.”

to reason with her. “I was a child

were committed,

my parents are dead. And my

lost cousins and kin too. War

that way.”

She huffs.

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

bothers to keep you around.

pack. No

That hurts.

apologetic for her actions, trying

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

needs to be some sanctity for

aren’t mated. We are married.

count

Jessica… it isn’t good for either

at me. “I don’t care about you,

here does. And if you think that Aaron cares, then you’re

finished with being nice to her.

flash and it’s the

as she grabs me and hurls

across the kitchen.

the pantry door and stay there on the

“Weak, pathetic human.”