Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 91

I spend the hour before the start of the ceremony walking the main pack’s grounds.

There are so many buildings in need of updating and repair. There are resources that we need to invest in order to

structure Pack Roberts for future generations.

A plan begins to take shape.

I might not live long enough to fulfill it but…

My brother meets me at the schoolhouse. It’s a single room building. Seeing it now with the eyes of an adult, I wonder at how small the structure is and how antiquated.

“You’d think we were Amish,” I mumble.

He laughs.

The door is locked but he whips out a set of keys and lets us in. The room is all whi te and there are computers along one wall. Maps on the other, chalkboards and a desk at the front.

“Is Mrs. McHenry still teaching?” I ask.

“She is.”

“How old is she?”

“200?”

I chuckle. “No seriously.”

globe on her desk. “I don’t know.

80.”

right. I touch the desktop. Time presses on relentlessly. I feel a gush of nostalgia for the little girl I was

to retire,” I say to Liam.

service to her pack and her community.” Liam shrugs. “She’ll be present tonight. Ask her yourself.” He grins, then his playful mood

It’s a warning.

get ready,” I tell

him, I walk

of music spills out of the mansion. It’s tasteful. The strings of a four-piece quartet drift to me. I always liked the sound of a cello and violin. I never learned to

never get that

a set of wolves that perform at most every event

would you look at that, someone removed the stripper pole.

winks at

offers a glass of Champagne. I accept the flute and then set it back down on his tray. “Is something wrong,

the mood for drinking

for the baby.

and whisper

matter in the scheme of things. But it would be so

paired with expensive

the trunk of belongings that Aaron sent over, the giant diamond ring was also packed, but I didn’t put it on.

me tonight, and I won’t resent his presence since it reinforces the ‘peace’ but our marriage is null.

prognosis, I can’t go back to Aaron.

I’d be giving him my entire pack.

my brother. And Aaron.

I’ll faint or something, and I make sure to pause intermittently to eat and