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.”

he banks the emotion.

driver, a wolf named William. “Let’s

3/5

I’m painfully aware

the tumultuous emotions he stirs in

shifts his leg so it presses

next two hours.

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

wear expensive suits and gowns.

is no formal uniform or etiquette

ruling family is almost a calling

of

a v-neck shirt and linen pants.

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

polished shoes. New money. The

several wolves wear

while they look dirt

door and extends his hand to

have a walking cast on. My foot is mostly healed.

infected which is good. Aside

I look

back into a

light white shirt. I have

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.