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?

living on Rathborn pack lands any

did James mean when he said Aaron left

and a platter of fruit, crackers and

and I realize

begin devouring the food, and somehow it tastes better than anything I’ve ever eaten. I can distinguish flavors in a way I never have before. I also realize I

realized existed.

human was like living in

have my wolf, I’m living in super-high

actually missing out on by not

the food, the door

the sheet up around myself, since whoever put me in bed hadn’t

appetite back.” James walks over and sits on the bed. Right away, I can see the guilt in his eyes, and I try not to let it soften me. “I’m

not your fault, James,” I reply, a lump in

but I hold up my

about it right now. I can’t talk

like that again,” James says, searching my features intently. “Rathbom pack lands might have the highest security, but you know from experience

knees up and wrapping

long has it been, James? How long was I asleep

replies, his voice a low rumble. “Like Adam said, we didn’t know if you were

miracle that I have

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

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 bond tethering you to this world through Aaron, and then your wolf fighting to

“I know.”

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

that

I know that. I do.

reflective. “Then why are you so

have my wolf. I wanted to be whole, so he could mate me. So we could have a family. Our lives everything

what it should have been all along, then maybe I would now be holding our child in my arms. I certainly wouldn’t have

father thought that transferring his Alpha powers to me would somehow unbind my wolf

guess I’ll never

he has my powers now, right? Aaron has assumed control of my family’s