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.

possible to keep such a secret.

progresses

out…

not sure-”

it or not?”

the pills?”

nod. Not regularly yet.

must sense that I won’t back

Okay. We’ll find a way.”

the sheet that’s draped over my legs. My

is elevated and there are pillows propped around

1. that normally has various

a vase of

get those for me?” I point at the

husband did.”

AARON

*

“I’ll run you a bath and you can

I’ll bring dinner

like

haven’t taken a bath since

to heal the worst of my wounds. The ones that

been treated by our pack

she’s up to her usual routine or

fifty feet away overhearing everything we

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

want a divorce”

never bothered to

try and force her to conduct herself

appropriately.

4/5

mine and we grew up together. It had

assumed from when we were kids that she