Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 157

I don’t know how much time has passed when I wake up in Aaron’s bed once again, but daylight is shining through the curtains

once more, so at least the night must have passed.

This time, I’m not in a rush to get up.

What’s the point?

My baby is gone, and I don’t even know what the point of me being alive is

It seems so cru el that I survived where he didn’t.

After a moment, I roll over, and don’t realize I’m trying to scent Aaron on the pillows until I’m already doing it.

I growl at myself, annoyed.

Or maybe I should be more annoyed with my inner wolf, since it’s her obsession with her mate that keeps me longing for him.

Longing for a man who I think I hate now.

I loved him for so long, hating him almost feels the same.

Deep, passionate, all-consuming.

A fire burning within me.

He is to blame for me losing my child, and I don’t know if I can ever forgive him for that.

But even as I think these things, my wolf is longing for him in a way that leaves my body aching.

Anyway, the pillows don’t smell like him anymore.

So has he simply been sleeping in another bedroom?

even living on Rathborn pack lands any

James mean when

ice water and a platter of fruit, crackers

rumbles, and I realize I am

better than anything I’ve ever eaten. I can distinguish flavors in a way I never have before. I also realize I can hear people moving around in the house, and pick up scents my

realized existed.

like living

wolf, I’m living in super-high

never realized how much I was actually

I finish with the food, the door opens

sheet up around myself, since whoever put me in bed hadn’t bothered to dress

away, I can see the guilt in his eyes, and I try not to let it soften me. “I’m sorry, Leah. For everything. You have to know I’d do anything to change things, to be able to give you back your

I reply, a lump

begins haltingly, but I hold up my

I can’t talk about it. Maybe later,

James says, searching my features intently. “Rathbom pack lands might have the highest security, but you know

up

has it been, James? How

rumble. “Like Adam said, we didn’t know if

I have my wolf

that I’d gotten to experience life with her, like it should have been from the start if my father hadn’t bound her in some twisted act of either protecting me, or striking

in the history of all the packs-but we think it was Aaron claiming you at the last second that did it. Becoming your mate unbound your wolf. Between the mate

“I know.”

He risked his life to bring you back from the depths. He followed you over, Leah. We weren’t sure either of you would

that

know that. I

looks reflective. “Then why are you so

I wanted to be whole, so he could mate me.

had put his pride and all those arro gant machinations aside, and allowed our marriage to be what it should have been all along, then maybe I would now be holding our child in my arms. I certainly wouldn’t have ever gotten sic k with canc er. Maybe I would still be Alpha and Liam wouldn’t have been able to betray me

wonder, now, if my father thought that transferring his Alpha powers to me would somehow

guess I’ll

right? Aaron has assumed