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.

80.”

walk to the desk I used to sit 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

wants to retire,” I say

likes being of service to her pack and her community.” Liam shrugs. “She’ll be present tonight. Ask her yourself.” He grins, then his playful mood changes. “Just don’t make too many changes all at once, ‘kay.”

It’s a warning.

I tell

waiting for him, I

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

never get that

a set of wolves that perform at most every event he

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

at

accept the flute and then set it back down

Just not in the mood for drinking

isn’t good for

my stomach and whisper

doesn’t really matter in the scheme of things. But it would be so nice to give this child a

pantsuit paired with expensive

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

his presence since it reinforces the ‘peace’ but our marriage is

I can’t go

I’d be giving him my

brother. And Aaron.

I’ll faint or something, and I make sure