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.

even possible to keep

progresses or if my hair

out…

not

you do it

taking the

regularly yet.

won’t back down because

yeah. Okay. We’ll find a

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

there are pillows propped

1. table that normally has various remotes for the tv

a

me?” I point at the

husband did.”

AARON

*

upstairs,” Jessica says. “I’ll run you a bath and you can

I’ll bring dinner up to your bedroom.”

like

taken a bath since I was six and

my

by our pack physician.

because she’s up to her usual routine

overhearing everything

male made such an offer to her,

maybe her “I want a divorce” decree has been coming

Because I’ve never bothered to

or to try and force her to

appropriately.

4/5

served mine and we grew

assumed from when we were kids that she would be