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.

my hair back and twist it into a messy bun.

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

I

actually mean.

think the issue lies with your wolf genetics. You have all the markers, Leah. But

from manifesting. And whatever that element is, it’s attacking your own body too.

autoimmune disease.”

may as well be

pace back and forth.

get

some time,” he says.

“How long?”

say,”

My mind whirls.

with the burn of unshed tears. “I really

Adam…”

there are still treatments. We can fight this. We won’t give up.” He points to the refrigerator at

put my hand to my head because I feel lightheaded.

arm

carries me to the nearest hospital bed and sets me

the bed so I’m sitting mostly upright. “Just take

with the smell of

it’s his aftershave. The smell makes me gag

side for a waste basket.

but thankfully my stomach is

happened?” he asks.

“I don’t know.

Then

the table and pulls a vial of