Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 18

the meeting and back.

1 file out behind them.

When I get into his idling SUV and buckle my seatbelt Aaron

looks at me oddly. “You should stay home tonight,” he tells me.

It’s the first time he’s spoken to me since the attack. “I haven’t

missed a meeting since I came here.”

“You’re injured.”

The implication being that I’m ‘human’. That I’m weak.

True, but … “It’s because I was attacked that I should be present. There are threats that the Council needs to be aware

of.”

“Do you plan to petition them for a divorce?”

So that’s why he wants me to stay. To silence me. He has the nerve to look earnest and upset that I want to leave him when he is the one who broke his vows and impregnated another

woman.

He is the one who hasn’t slept beside me in a week.

“Yes. I still want a divorce, Aaron.”

for a moment before he

nods to the driver, a wolf named William. “Let’s

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back into the seat. I’m

tumultuous emotions he

close to Aaron but when he shifts his leg so it presses against mine, I wonder if I can endure

two

we reach the Regional grounds, already cars are arriving and prominent alphas from across

and gowns.

is no formal uniform or

is almost a calling

brand of

a v-neck shirt and linen pants. The

wrist is worth more than this car and though he doesn’t flaunt it,

the front of

and polished shoes. New

by several wolves wear jeans and

look dirt poor, they’re sitting on more

extends his hand

My foot is mostly healed.

Aside from aches and pains and

I look the

back into a simple ponytail.

dark slacks and a light white shirt. I

we married, a simple band, and a sapphire necklace that was my mom’s. I didn’t bother

a purse.

steps out next and he holds his arm out to me.