Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 84

My stomach pitches into my throat and I run to the sink.

I’ve had a protein bar and a bottle of water- I vomit them up violently.

Adam comes and holds back my hair.

I run the water and rinse my mo uth.

My mou th is salivating and the flood of adrenaline makes it hard to breathe. This is NOT the news I was expecting.

“I don’t understand. I’ve been trying to play it cool, but come on…I was tortured in that Grove and I felt the power of my lineage come into me. What good is being an Alpha if I’m just going to d ie, and now, what!? More quickly?”

push out of his arms and stalk around the lab. I have to keep moving. This anxious energy is burning through my system and I want to cry and scream.

It’s all so unfair.

For a few days, I dared to dream.

That I was cured.

That I wasn’t a pawn.

That I could wield power and control over my future and

family.

But that was all delusional it seems.

“I’m running tests, Leah. I’m trying. Believe me.”

He looks gutted.

bun. “I know, Adam. I appreciate everything

back to a computer and points to the screen. I see a series of DNA genes, the results of the

week. but I don’t know what the

actually mean.

the issue lies with your wolf genetics. You have all the markers, Leah. But there is something

And whatever that element is, it’s attacking your own body too. It’s almost like some sort

autoimmune disease.”

as well be speaking ancient

back and forth.

this is it!? I just get my

still have some

“How long?”

say,” he says

My mind whirls.

eyes pri ck with the burn of unshed tears. “I really thought….

Adam…”

are still treatments. We can fight this. We won’t give up.” He points to the refrigerator at the opposite side of the room. “The chemo

to my head

at once, Adam’s arm is around

me to the nearest hospital bed

props up the bed so I’m sitting mostly upright. “Just take a minute, Leah. Breathe.”

leans over me and I’m hit with the smell of his cologne or

it’s his aftershave. The smell makes me gag

lunges to the side for a waste basket.

gag and heave, but thankfully my stomach

he asks.

know.

laughs. Then quickly sobers.

the table and pulls