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.”

brother spins a globe on her desk. “I

80.”

in. Front row. Second seat from the right. I touch the desktop. Time presses on relentlessly. I feel a gush of nostalgia for the little girl I was

she wants to retire,” I

“She’ll be present tonight. Ask her yourself.” He grins, then his playful mood changes. “Just don’t make too many

It’s a warning.

ready,” I tell

him, I walk away.

spills out of the mansion. It’s tasteful. The strings of a four-piece quartet drift to me. I always liked the sound of

never get that

orchestra is no doubt Aaron’s doing. He has a set of wolves

main hall, and would you look at that, someone removed the stripper pole. I glance quickly at

winks at me.

glass of Champagne. I accept the flute and then set it back down on

the mood for

good for the baby.

whisper a wish

doesn’t really matter in the scheme of things. But it

pantsuit paired

Aaron sent over, the giant diamond

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

my recent prognosis, I can’t

be giving him my entire

avoid my brother. And Aaron.

stays close. He’s probably worried I’ll faint or something, and I make sure to pause intermittently to