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.

okay now, but as this progresses or if

out…

I’m not sure-”

it

taking the pills?”

regularly yet. But

won’t back down because he relents.

Okay. We’ll

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

elevated and there

1. normally has various remotes for the

electronics, I see a

I point at the pretty

husband

AARON

*

run you a bath and

up. I’ll bring dinner up to

like

bath since I was six and I’ve

my wounds. The ones that remain

by our

is fluttering around me because she’s up to her usual routine or if it’s

feet away overhearing everything

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

her “I want a divorce” decree has

never bothered

try and force her to

appropriately.

4/5

served mine and we grew up

we were kids that