Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 31

AARON

What the he ll?

Leah pitches sideways onto the floor and convulses.

She gags and coughs again and more blood splatters the ground.

This isn’t panic or even some manic episode. This is more than grief.

Something is very wrong.

I jam my phone and keys into my pocket and sweep Leah up into my arms. I don’t bother with shoes or locking the door. I barrel out of the little cabin and start the hike up the incline, running as much as I can and only slowing so I don’t jostle her too hard or let her fall.

She’s wheezing and she doesn’t smell right.

body is cold and light and she groans with every

movement.

she might be

Women would go catatonic at the sight of a dead son or husband. And our warriors coming back, they would lose their minds when their loved ones

had my own meltdown once and the rage I unleashed…it definitely played

knew the

the many

starts gasping in earnest and I listen for her heartbeat. She wails and twitches then goes lifeless in my arms. I lift her body to my ear and press her chest to my head listening for her pulse, but as the seconds tick by I don’t hear one.

howls in my

own heart is

so her face is

doesn’t move,

up the mountain and debate whether to put her down and begin CPR

wolf where I can command her wolf

can drag her back from the other side with my own