Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 16

I must pass out because when I wake up, I’m in the living room on the couch and I’m hooked up to an IV. There are machines beeping around me and it’s like the den has been turned into an infirmary.

“You flatlined,” Adam explains. “We didn’t have time to carry you up the twenty flights of stairs to your room.”

“It’s not that far,” I say automatically.

“It is when you’re not breathing.”

I sit up. I’m groggy and disoriented.

I hear voices coming from the kitchen. “Oh, come here, baby.

Let me clean you up.” It’s Jessica. She’s fawning over Aaron.

“You look terrible,” Adam tells me.

“It’s good to see you too.”

“We should move you to a hospital.”

I glance nervously at the kitchen then back at him. “Will they let me out if I get admitted?”

Adam bites his lip.

That’s what I thought.

2/5

I don’t want to spend what time I have left in a hospital bed, alone. Trapped from the world.

“I’ll make you a deal. I’ll start treatments, but I do it from here.

And we tell no one.”

His eyes widen.

to

this progresses or

out…

not sure-”

it

taking the

nod. Not regularly yet. But I will.

sense that I won’t back down because he

yeah. Okay. We’ll

I pick at the sheet

and there are

1. table that normally has various remotes for the tv

see a vase

I point at the pretty purple and

husband

AARON

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“I’ll run you a bath and

dinner up to

like that.

bath since I was six and I’ve already

worst of my

been treated by

is fluttering around me because she’s up to her usual routine or if it’s

overhearing everything we say.

male made such an offer to her, I’d rip his head off.

want a divorce” decree has

a while. Because I’ve never bothered to curtail Jessica’s

or to try and force her to conduct herself more

appropriately.

4/5

had served mine and we grew up together. It

were kids that she would be my