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.

blond hair is down today and it

some goddamn shampoo commercial. Ugh. This wolf.

probably dance on my

saddens me.

mean, Jessica. I didn’t ask to be Aaron’s wife. But I am. And I have been for a long time now.

the apple

the compost bin.

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

in which your pack can absolve

sins.”

more to reason with her. “I was a child

committed,

my parents are dead. And my eldest

dead. I’ve lost cousins

that way.”

She huffs.

it? You’re a human. For the life

bothers to keep you around. You’re

to this pack. No use

That hurts.

apologetic for her actions, trying

being fair, he was hers to begin

be some sanctity for our relationship. Even if

We are

to count

it isn’t good for either of

“I don’t care about you,

does. And if you think that

finished with being nice

flash and it’s the

arms as she grabs me and

the

the pantry door and stay there on the ground,

“Weak, pathetic human.”