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

behind her like some goddamn shampoo commercial. Ugh. This

dance on

saddens me.

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

then snatches the apple from my

the compost

my way, we wouldn’t

which your pack can absolve

sins.”

try once more to reason with her.

were committed,

dead. And my

dead. I’ve lost cousins and kin too.

that way.”

She huffs.

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

why he even bothers to keep you

use to this pack. No use to Aaron.”

That hurts.

apologetic for her actions,

husband. If I’m being fair, he was hers to

sanctity for our relationship. Even if

mated. We are

has to count

it isn’t good for

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

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

being nice to her.

eyes flash and it’s the only warning I

my arms as she

the kitchen.

into the pantry door and

“Weak, pathetic human.”