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.”

eyes flash gold for a moment before he banks the

to the driver, a

3/5

seat. I’m painfully aware of this man

the tumultuous emotions he

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

two

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

gowns. Others

is no formal uniform or

ruling family is almost a calling

brand of influence.

v-neck shirt and linen pants.

watch on his wrist is worth more than this car and though

brother are at the front of the line. They wear

and polished shoes. New money. The flashy kind.

surrounded by several

they look dirt poor, they’re sitting on more land than some

my door and extends his hand to help

walking cast on. My foot is mostly healed. It didn’t

good. Aside from

I look the

back into a simple

dark slacks and a light white shirt. I

a simple band, and a sapphire necklace that was

a purse.

and he holds his arm out