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 banks the emotion. Then he shrugs.

driver, a wolf named William. “Let’s go.”

3/5

back into the seat. I’m painfully aware of this

the tumultuous emotions he stirs in me.

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

two hours.

reach the Regional grounds, already cars are arriving and prominent alphas from across this part of

wear expensive suits and gowns. Others

There is no formal uniform or

ruling family is almost a

of

and linen pants. The

bronzed skin and his huge stature. The watch on his wrist is worth more than this car and though he doesn’t flaunt it, he

are at the front of the

polished shoes. New money. The

surrounded by several wolves wear jeans and

they look dirt

extends his hand to

walking cast on. My foot is

infected which is good. Aside from aches and

I look the same.

back into a

dark slacks and a light

a simple band, and a sapphire necklace that was my

a purse.

holds his arm out to me.