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 keep such a

but as this progresses or if my hair

out…

I’m not

it or

taking the pills?”

regularly yet.

I won’t back down because he relents.

We’ll find a

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

there are pillows propped around

1. that normally has various remotes for the

a vase of

point at the pretty purple and pink

husband did.”

AARON

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you a bath and you

up. I’ll bring dinner

She’d like that.

since I was six and

the worst of my wounds. The ones that remain

by

not sure if Jessica is fluttering around me because she’s up to her

away overhearing everything

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

want a divorce”

Because I’ve never

to try and force her

appropriately.

4/5

and we

we were kids that