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.”

spins a globe on her desk. “I don’t know.

80.”

on relentlessly. I feel a gush of nostalgia for the little girl I

to retire,” I say

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

It’s a warning.

I tell

waiting for him, I walk away.

four-piece quartet drift to me. I always liked the sound of a cello and violin.

never get

doing. He has a set of wolves that perform at most

of food are laid out in the main hall, and would you look at that, someone removed the stripper pole. I glance quickly at

at

accept the flute and then set it back down on his tray. “Is

not in the mood for drinking quite

for

whisper a wish and

really matter in the scheme of things. But it would be so nice to give this

wearing a black pantsuit paired with expensive

that Aaron sent over,

won’t resent his presence

prognosis, I can’t go back

doing so, I’d be giving him my

my brother.

or something, and I make sure to pause intermittently to eat and