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

suit jacket and wipes his face. My blood is splattered on his chin.

don’t

be

Aaron.

my heart and in my

even as the panic boils up and my

sets in.

to my knees.

throat, instinctively trying to stop the bleeding. But

blood.

so sad. And

with shock and with

Every 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

My head on his chest. His

of my blood as I bleed out, I imagine

of summer nights and la zy

and every time he

going to miss him. So

a vicious roar.

hits my neck and my eyes

James!?

my throat, cauterizing the wound. It burns so

looks like hel l.

hand over it.

When I open them again.

Oh.

There he is.

security team, but my thoughts

never told him he’d