Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 172

I run for hours.

I have no way of keeping track of time in wolf form, but eventually I can somehow sense dawn is coming, and I’m exhausted, so I

start heading back.

James didn’t exactly try to run with me the way I thought he would, He’d come out, yes, but he’d kept his distance and seemed more inclined to run ahead, or trot circles around me to keep guard whenever I stopped to rest or tracked an animal, or frolicked

in the snow.

When we arrive back at the mansion, James watches me go back in through the patio doors and shift to human form, before padding off around the outside of the house without shifting back himself.

I wonder where he’s going off to. Maybe he has patrols to do or something.

I go all the way up to my old room, even though Aaron’s room is closer and his bed is both larger and probably more comfortable, but I still can’t think of it as anything other than Aaron’s bed, even though I spent months there while I was in a coma.

I don’t bother dressing or putting on pjs, I simply crawl under the blankets and thankfully fall into a deep sleep.

Several hours later, my wolf senses bring me awake when someone walks into my bedroom.

across the room where he was walking toward the nightstand

my chest, but for some reason he’s the one

away.

doing here?” I demand as I pull the blankets up

first thing this morning to give you another checkup and they told me you’d been out running almost all night, after

sets the tray down onto the nightstand, and I see orange juice, some slices of fruit,

him that I didn’t give

my wolf, for some reason, she wants to

is my

me through the can cer, did everything he could to help me,

to calm down. Apparently all

I had when I was in California,

silently curse my wolf, I’m sure

where our mate is

him

admonishing. “You awoke from a six month coma less than a week ago. You need to slow down.. You might have your wolf now, but it doesn’t

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packs now, Adam,” I remind him, trying to keep the annoyance out of my voice. “What do you expect me to do? Find somewhere to hide away and manage everything remotely like Aaron

I admire you