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.

down today and

her like some goddamn

on

thought saddens

ask to be Aaron’s wife. But I am. And I have been for a

and then snatches the apple from my

into the

my way, we wouldn’t just bleed you once a month, it’d be

there is no world in which

sins.”

more to reason with her. “I

committed, Jessica.”

my parents are dead. And my eldest brother.”

cousins and kin too.

that way.”

She huffs.

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

he even bothers to keep you around. You’re of

to this pack. No use to

That hurts.

isn’t ashamed or apologetic for her actions, trying to

he was hers

to be some sanctity for

mated. We are

count for

doing, Jessica… it isn’t good for either

me. “I don’t care about you, Leah.

think that Aaron

finished with being nice to her. “You’re

eyes flash and it’s the only warning

claws scratch down my arms as she grabs me and hurls

the kitchen.

and stay there on the ground, wheezing.

“Weak, pathetic human.”