Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 80

Chapter 80

Miss you.

It’s just those two words.

I stare at them for hours.

I draft a hundred different replies and delete them all. Because there is no right thing to say to the husband-who-isn’t-my-husband who-is-my-captor/enemy.

If he’s looking at his phone I’m sure he’ll see the three dots that pop up and disappear as I type and then click back to undo.

As night passes into morning, I sleep again.

It’s fitful. Filled with dreams that are more like nightmares, and memories I’ve bottled up since I was a kid.

I cry.

I curl up and try to comfort myself.

Because it’s going to take 48 hours for the results back from my lab tests.

Two days to learn if I’ll live or if I’m right back to counting down the time left with my terminal illness.

I want to live so badly.

It’s some ingrained survival instinct, sure, but when facing my own mortality, I don’t want to d ie.

At some point, I get up and start cleaning. I organize clothes and move boxes and clean up the junk that had been left behind-some of it by teenage me.

A day later, there is another text. This one is also brief. It just says, Special Delivery.

does that mean?

my brother shows up at my room with

carry a box. Really big boxes.

1

K

4

”

.

2

first. “That blockhead beta just left these at the main gate.”

pretty sure he means

is big enough to lug around both of

you search them?” I feel compelled to

did,” Liam snaps at me.

a fair question. They’re essentially

is

hand, they’re doing it

thinks your own pack won’t feed you,” Liam mutters. Then he opens the box and pulls out packages or protein bars and giant jars of peanut butter.

Adam says to

know he’s thinking about me being locked away and starved for

your box?” I ask

it and the components inside

reaches in and pulls out knife after knife and then an assortment of weapons and magazine clips, my mind goes

against your

I say automatically.

what is

family’s ‘enemy’ will only reflect poorly on me. But how sad is it that I

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