Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 171

LEAH

I arrive back at the Rathborn mansion after spending the day visiting with the Leithrow wolves. They were surprisingly welcoming. and fell over themselves with gratitude, calling me Luna at every turn, and presenting me with a lavish lunch even though I hadn’t given them waming that I was showing up that day.

I’d felt a little bad about that actually, catching them off guard like that.

But I’d been so adamant about keeping busy and going to meet the pack members in person to hopefully smooth over Aaron’s new habit of running things remotely, that I didn’t even think about the fact it’d be polite to give the Leithrow wolves a day or two to prepare for my visit.

I keep forgetting what my role as Luna really means to some people.

Probably because I was Luna of the Rathbom pack for years, and they treated me like trash, so I never knew what it was to have real respect and deference directed at me.

yesterday, I’ve had this ache in my chest like

her mate. Like seeing him made it worse,

way

up in the mansion, trying not to think about Aaron and everything I’ve lost, so I make my way to the library and pause at the french doors opening onto a patio

in summer. Right now

enjoying the drag of material over my skin and the anticipation building inside me-my

at my feet, I hear the slightest swish of movement and

alone.

the doorway, his gaze roaming over my body in a way that can only

a secret thrill, one I know I shouldn’t feel as a

me the way he is, I can’t help but soak up the admiration from someone else…someone else who’s been looking after me so attentively since I

James’s gaze returns to my face, and his wolf is flashing in his