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.

okay now, but as this progresses

out…

I’m not sure-”

you do it or not?”

the pills?”

yet. But I

that I won’t back down

We’ll

at the sheet that’s draped over

elevated and there are pillows

1. has

see a vase

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

Your husband did.”

AARON

*

“I’ll run you

dinner up

She’d like

a bath since I was

my wounds. The ones

been treated by our pack physician.

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

overhearing everything we say.

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

“I want a divorce” decree has

while. Because I’ve never bothered

or to try and force her to conduct

appropriately.

4/5

parents had served mine and we grew up together. It

we were kids that