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 you smiling

It’s Jessica.

down

goddamn shampoo commercial. Ugh.

probably dance on my grave.

saddens

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

snorts and then snatches the apple from my hand.

into the compost

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

there is no world in which your pack can absolve its

sins.”

with her. “I was a child when

committed,

dead.

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

that way.”

She huffs.

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

why he even bothers to keep you around.

this pack.

That hurts.

apologetic for her actions, trying

being fair, he was hers to begin

be some sanctity for our relationship. Even

mated. We are married.

to count for

you’re doing, Jessica… it isn’t good for either of us.”

at me. “I don’t

No one here does. And if you think that Aaron cares, then you’re even

with being nice

it’s the

down my arms as she grabs

across the

door and stay there on the ground, wheezing.

“Weak, pathetic human.”