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.”

her desk.

80.”

on relentlessly. I feel a gush of nostalgia for the little girl I was and all the things I learned

retire,” I say to

tonight. Ask her yourself.” He grins, then his playful mood changes. “Just don’t make

It’s a warning.

should get ready,” I

him, I walk

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

get that

Aaron’s doing. He has a set of wolves that perform at most every event he hosts.

the main hall, and would you look

winks at me.

from Aaron’s pack, offers a glass of Champagne. I accept the flute and then set it back down on his tray. “Is

the mood for drinking

for

touch my stomach and whisper a wish and

in the scheme of things. But it would

a black pantsuit paired with expensive

and a watch. In the trunk of belongings that Aaron sent over, the giant diamond ring was also packed, but I didn’t put

may be helping me tonight, and I won’t resent his presence since it

I can’t go

I’d be giving

brother. And

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