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.

even possible to keep such a

okay now, but as this progresses or if my hair falls

out…

not sure-”

do it or not?”

taking the

regularly yet. But I

that I won’t back down

Okay. We’ll find a way.”

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

elevated and there are

1. has various remotes for the

a vase of

point at

husband

AARON

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

dinner

She’d like

since I was

the worst of my wounds. The

treated by our

fluttering around me because she’s up to her

fifty feet away overhearing everything we say.

another male made such an offer to her, I’d rip his

“I want a divorce” decree has

while. Because I’ve never

to try and force her to conduct herself more

appropriately.

4/5

parents had served mine and we grew up

we were kids that she