Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 158

After James leaves-and I am left sitting there startled by the reminder of who I am to the pack-1 force myself to get up and dress

I go upstairs to my old room where my clothes still are, to pick out something comfortable, yet stylish-jeans and a softly knitted sweater. It seems silly to worry about clothes when my life feels like it got put through a blender.

I glance around the room as I dress, remnants of both the child and the woman who grew up here, confused, alone and desperately dreaming things could be different, easy to see in the pictures and books and splashes of color.

I feel like a completely different person now, like I don’t belong in this space any longer.

Like everything that happened in the warehouse that night-dying, turning, mating, losing my child-has rebirthed me into someone I don’t recognize.

Maybe it’s not for the worst.

That girl loved a man who refused to love her back. A man who treated her in extremes. Worshiping her body in one moment, being guardedly possessive the next, then acting like I didn’t exist, disregarding my feelings, flaunting Jessica in front of me, yet at the same time, teaching me everything I needed to know to thrive in this world, but then finding ways to use it against me like when he had me trick my own father….

That girl lived in a maelstrom of chaos.

idea what was

girl is going to learn

girl is going to be strong. For herself.

and

of the house after everything

is doing some routine cleaning, my newly sensitive hearing picks up the low tones of James talking to another couple of guys somewhere within

and apart from

normal for them.

through life

have to pause for

his

the soap he uses,

any lust I experienced as a human. It’s almost crippling, and I have to sit down as I realize this is what a wolf

running after Aaron any time soon. And after the way he walked out on

That hurts.