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.

not sure it’s even possible to

but as this progresses or if my hair falls

out…

not

you do it or not?”

taking the

yet. But I will.

that I won’t back down because he

Okay. We’ll find a way.”

pick at the sheet that’s draped over my legs. My

elevated and there are pillows propped around

1. table that normally has various

electronics, I see a vase of lilacs.

you get those for me?” I point at

husband

AARON

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“I’ll run you a bath

I’ll bring dinner up

like

I haven’t taken a bath since

the worst of my wounds.

been treated by our pack physician.

if Jessica is fluttering around me because she’s up to her usual

away overhearing

male made such an offer to

maybe her “I want a divorce” decree has been

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

to try and force her

appropriately.

4/5

we grew up

kids that