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

now, but as this progresses or if my hair falls

out…

not sure-”

it or not?”

the

Not regularly yet. But

I won’t back down because he relents.

Okay. We’ll find a

you.” I pick at the sheet that’s

and there are

1. has various remotes for the tv

electronics, I see a

for me?” I point at the pretty purple

husband did.”

AARON

*

Jessica says. “I’ll run you a bath

I’ll bring dinner up

She’d like

I haven’t taken a bath since I was six and I’ve

my wounds. The

treated by our

to her usual routine or if it’s because Leah is

away overhearing everything we say.

to her,

“I want a divorce” decree

Because I’ve never bothered to curtail

force her to

appropriately.

4/5

served mine and we grew up together. It

kids that she