Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 21

LEAH

Wolves don’t beg.

They don’t grovel or back down,

A pack’s value comes from its strength.

I tilt my chin up.

I may be on my knees, but it doesn’t make me weak.

My will is strong. So is my willingness to fix this mess I’ve made.

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If Aaron won’t be reasonable then I will rely on the mercy of this Council.

“Ma’am Karolina, are we not all wolves?” I say.

Her lips purse. It’s a not so subtle reminder that everyone here is a wolf-except me.

“Our numbers are low,” I press on. “Our strength is tied to our

unity as a species. There must be justice, yes, but also mercy

and understanding so that every member of every pack might thrive. So that we can prosper as a species.”

She inclines her head encouraging me to continue.

greater purpose and meaning.

collective packs-1, Leah Roberts Rathborn

Council member

in

dead body!”

AARON

Leah gasps.

hell are you doing?” I

Aaron is a good man, and, of

accept me as tribute in my father’s stead, and I beg you to show my father mercy.” Her gaze

attest, I sometimes make

accounting.”

it is.

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Acknowledging I’m her

ideas of divorce she may

dark and possessive washes over me upon seeing

her knees.

her

my hands in her hair and hold

sink my teeth into her

room-in this world-will know

I’ll ever do such a thing.

ever be more than a partner in name

his obsession with my

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and mental chain that brings only

suffering.