Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 148

I don’t move. I don’t think I breathe.

My body and mind detach in some way because I’m too much

in shock to process what Liam’s saying.

“I kil led dad,” he tells me, plain as day.

“No. Nooo.”

“He was going to bargain with that ba stard you married for

your sake and his. Instead of standing strong and fighting. I

had it all figured out. I had a loan lined up to float us until the

military contract was completed. The company was fine! If he’d just waited…. If he’d just trusted me…”

“Liam,” I swallow past the lump in my throat.

There’s roaring in the distance. The thunder of many men and

beasts.

“I’ll keep my promise, Leah. And make it quick.”

It’s the only warning I receive.

Liam lunges, maw wide and teeth sharpening. I fire off rounds. There are fifteen in this mag, and the kick je rks up my

arm with each shot.

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me. His teeth catch my throat, close to my shoulder, but

the handkerchief from the pocket of his suit jacket and wipes his face. My blood is splattered on his chin. A splash of it stains his pristine shirt and suit

I don’t

to be of

Aaron.

and

boils up and my body

sets in.

sink to

are at my throat, instinctively trying to stop the bleeding. But my hands are wet, and slipping

blood.

so sad. And scared.

shock and with the knowledge that I’m

detail around me comes into crystalline detail as the world slows to each breath. The hard marble beneath my legs. The scent of woodsmoke from the fireplace. My brother’s glowing eyes as he watches me suffer. I close my eyes

on his chest. His

I bleed out, I

la zy mornings. Dancing in

time he

going to miss him.

vicious roar.

my neck and my eyes fly open.

James!?

wound. It burns so badly and the stench of burning skin and hair has me

like hel l.

burning when he slaps his hand over it. A breath

When I open them again.

Oh.

There he is.

team, but my thoughts wonder

never told him he’d be