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.

and light and she groans with

movement.

she might be delirious.

battles, I can remember some of my packmates going into shock. Women would go catatonic at the sight of a dead son or husband.

own meltdown once and the rage I

Leah knew the whole truth…

knew the many ways I’ve wronged

I listen for her heartbeat. She wails and twitches then goes lifeless in my arms. I lift her body

howls in my

own heart is racing.

me so her face is close to mine.

doesn’t move, doesn’t respond.

the last forty feet up the mountain and debate whether to put her down and begin CPR or to get her in the truck and to a

wolf where I can command her wolf to

isn’t my mate where I can drag her back from the other