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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catch my throat, close to my shoulder, but high enough to graze my neck.

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 jacket. “Just breathe and relax.

don’t want my last images on

to be of him.

Aaron.

in my heart and

boils up and my body grows cold. It’s a bit of a

sets

sink to

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

blood.

so sad.

with shock and with the knowledge that I’m

legs. The scent of woodsmoke

think of Aaron. My head on his chest. His arms around me.

the pulse of my blood as I bleed out, I imagine it’s the pulse

of summer nights and la zy mornings. Dancing in

time he fought

to miss him. So

roar.

my neck and my eyes fly open.

James!?

a poker from the fireplace against my throat, cauterizing the wound. It burns so badly and the stench of burning

like hel l.

still burning when he slaps his hand over it. A breath hisses from

eyes flicker. When I open them

Oh.

There he is.

he knew to come and I’m sure it’s some simple detail like my phone or James, or calling his security team, but my thoughts wonder and trickle like water in

never told him he’d