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.

don’t have much time left and maybe in making this sacrifice, I can give my life greater purpose

collective packs-1, Leah Roberts Rathborn would make one request.”

ahead,” Council member Karolina

offer myself as tribute in place of my

body!”

AARON

Leah gasps.

hell are you doing?”

at the Council. “Alpha Aaron

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

husband can attest, I sometimes make mistakes with

accounting.”

it is.

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Acknowledging I’m her husband and

stupid ideas of divorce she may have

possessive washes over me upon seeing

on her knees.

her

my hands in her

want to sink my teeth into her flesh and mark her skin

room-in this world-will know she

that I’ll ever do such

ever be more than a

us to ruin with his obsession with my mother. A mating

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and mental chain that brings only hardship

suffering.