Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 37

Jessica pales.

She’s like a fawn. Her eyes dart around nervously, but there is nowhere to go.

“I asked you a question.”

She licks her lips to moisten them. It’s one of her nervous habits. “I, uh, just meant that they didn’t stand a chance against us.

I look at her as if seeing her for the first time. It’s true she’s always underfoot and I’m as familiar with her as I am with myself.

But I don’t know that I’ve really seen her.

Not in a very long time.

“Are you happy, Jess?”

If my first question made her nervous, this one has her even more unsettled. She bites her lip hard and lowers her gaze.

know, she’s been alone for at least as long as Leah has lived beneath this roof in our

of the wolves. They attacked me that fateful

been willing to d ie to ki ll Leah.

something stu pid, Jess?”

me in the eye.

slam my hand on the table.

glasses tip over and shatter

do anything!” she insists.

part

claws extend through my fingertips and I feel my spine starting to curve.

terrified. But there is nowhere she

The food and glass and porcelain shatter all over

into the room. He lets out a low whistle. “Chef spent hours on that meal.”

shifted but I’m coherent enough to speak. “Was it you?”

should shift fully and run. I need to get this rage out of my system so I can think and act rationally, because I’m not good to anyone-myself included-with my emotions as clouded

are.

to ki ll one of my own packmates,

not yet.