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 secret.

now, but as this progresses or if my

out…

I’m not sure-”

it or not?”

taking the pills?”

nod. Not regularly yet. But

that I won’t

yeah. Okay. We’ll find a

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

is elevated and there

1. has various remotes for

a vase

you get those for me?” I point at

husband did.”

AARON

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you a bath and

dinner up to your bedroom.”

She’d like that.

a bath since I was six and I’ve

to heal the worst of my wounds. The ones that

been treated by

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

overhearing

to her, I’d rip his head

want a divorce”

a while. Because I’ve never

force her to conduct herself

appropriately.

4/5

had served mine and we grew up

assumed from when we were kids that she would be