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.

long, blond hair is down today

behind her like some goddamn shampoo commercial. Ugh. This

probably dance on my grave.

saddens me.

mean, Jessica. I didn’t ask to be Aaron’s wife. But I am. And I have been

then snatches the apple from my hand. She

it into the compost bin.

if I had my way, we wouldn’t just bleed you once a

in which your pack can absolve its

sins.”

to reason with her. “I was a child

committed,

dead.

dead. I’ve lost cousins and kin too.

that way.”

She huffs.

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

to keep you around.

this pack.

That hurts.

or apologetic for her actions, trying

fair, he was hers to begin

to be some sanctity for our relationship. Even

aren’t mated. We are

has to count

Jessica… it isn’t good

me. “I don’t

think that Aaron cares,

with being nice

and it’s the only warning I get.

arms as

across the kitchen.

the pantry door and stay there on

“Weak, pathetic human.”