Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 77

Adam locks down the medical facility the minute I’m in the lab.

He punches a series of buttons on the computer screen and I hear the electronic locks click into place. He cues the video feeds for the other parts of the building and I’m relieved he hasn’t locked anyone else inside with us.

Maybe it was Tobin’s unexpected visit or the way he seemed to waltz right into the place, but I didn’t want to deal with any

more surprises.

“Is it normally so quiet?” I ask him. Meaning, for a state-of-the-art medical center and lab, right here adjacent to the main house… the building is decidedly empty.

“It has been slow since they’ve been buying peace with your monthly blood donation.”

This room has several microscopes across one wall and a series of hospital beds lined up along the other. It looks like one part lab-with tables, spectroscopy equipment, glassware, etc. where the other half of the room resembles an ER with gurneys, IV stands, and an assortment of medical equipment.

“I take it you know the drill?” he asks.

I dutifully roll up my sleeve.

alcohol swab from within one of the drawers and wipes my arm gently. “Sit,” he tells me. But I don’t want

“I’m fine.”

tests, Leah. This is going to be a

there’s much Adam could do that hasn’t already

done to me.

anyone else know?”

“I’m not sure

women in my father’s room.

a surprise when they saw me. Or

I don’t know.

last day has been

The pinch of the needle stings, but only for a second. Adam deftly finds the vein. “Make a fist and release it.”

do as he says, watching as my blood fills the bag and

flow more quickly.

you think?”

and a wolf. Surely he

and tucks a curl behind my ear. “I think

hope in his voice. A