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. “I know, Adam.

points to the screen. I see a series of DNA genes, the results of the electrophoresis he

but I don’t know what

actually mean.

wolf genetics. You have all the markers, Leah. But there is

that element is, it’s attacking your

autoimmune disease.”

well be speaking ancient Greek.

pace back and forth.

it!? I just get my affairs in order, huh?”

still have some time,”

“How long?”

to say,” he says honestly.

My mind whirls.

the burn of unshed tears.

Adam…”

quietly. “Look, there 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 treatments are

my hand to my head because I feel lightheaded.

at once, Adam’s arm is around me.

hospital bed and sets

so I’m

hit with the smell of his cologne or

The smell makes me gag and I wretch

the side for a waste

gag and heave, but thankfully my stomach is empty.

happened?” he

wrinkle my nose. “I don’t know. Something about

laughs. Then quickly

back to the table and pulls a vial of