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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my throat, close to my shoulder, but high

back. He pulls 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

don’t want my last images

to be of him.

Aaron.

in my heart and in my

will keep me calm even as the panic boils up and my body grows cold. It’s

chill sets in.

to my knees.

instinctively trying to stop the

blood.

so sad. And scared.

and with the knowledge that

beneath my legs. The scent of woodsmoke from the fireplace. My

head on his chest. His arms

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

and la zy mornings. Dancing in his

time he fought for

to miss him.

a vicious roar. Then another.

scorching hot hits my neck and

James!?

fireplace against my throat, cauterizing the wound. It burns so badly and the stench of burning skin and hair has me gagging.

looks like

hand over it. A breath hisses from his

flicker. When I open them

Oh.

There he is.

security team, but my thoughts wonder and trickle like water in a steam. I hope I will get to hold him one last time. To feel his

him he’d be