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.

it’s even possible to keep such a secret. I’m

as this progresses or if

out…

I’m not

you do it or not?”

taking the pills?”

regularly yet. But I will.

sense that I won’t back down because

yeah. Okay. We’ll find a way.”

you.” I pick at the sheet that’s draped over my legs.

is elevated and there are

1. the table that normally has various remotes for the

a vase of lilacs.

get those for me?” I point at the pretty purple and pink flowers.

husband did.”

AARON

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you a bath and

up. I’ll bring dinner

She’d like that.

since I was six and

heal the worst of my wounds. The

by

around me because she’s up to

feet away overhearing everything we

an offer to her, I’d rip his

want a divorce” decree has been

while. Because I’ve never bothered to

or to try and force

appropriately.

4/5

served mine and we

assumed from when we were kids that she would be