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

3/5

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

tumultuous emotions he stirs

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

two hours.

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

suits and gowns.

shirts. There is no formal

of each ruling family is almost a calling

of

on a v-neck shirt and linen pants. The light colors

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

and brother are at the front of the

and polished shoes. New money.

several wolves wear

the far north, and while they look dirt

door and extends his hand to help

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

is good. Aside from aches and pains and

I look the same.

drawn back

light white

me when we married, a simple band, and a sapphire necklace that was my mom’s.

a purse.

holds his arm out to me.