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.

sure it’s even possible to keep such a

progresses or if my hair falls

out…

I’m not

it

taking the pills?”

Not regularly yet. But I will.

sense that I won’t

yeah. Okay. We’ll find a

pick at the sheet that’s draped over

and there are pillows propped around

1. has

a vase

you get those for me?” I point at the pretty purple

Your husband

AARON

*

you a bath and

bring dinner

She’d like

bath since

of my

treated by our pack

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

overhearing

offer to her, I’d rip

a divorce” decree has

I’ve never

to try and force her to conduct

appropriately.

4/5

had served mine and we grew

we were kids