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. I’m

but as this progresses or if my hair falls

out…

I’m not

do it or not?”

the

yet.

sense that I won’t back down because he relents.

yeah. Okay. We’ll find

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

foot is elevated and there are pillows

1. normally has various remotes for

a

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

Your husband did.”

AARON

*

upstairs,” Jessica says. “I’ll run you a

dinner up to your bedroom.”

She’d like that.

since

the worst of my wounds.

treated by our

not sure if Jessica is fluttering around me because she’s up to

feet away overhearing everything we

an offer to

“I want a

while. Because I’ve never bothered to curtail Jessica’s

force

appropriately.

4/5

and we

kids that she