Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 173

I shower, dress and eat the food Adam brought up for me, even though I don’t have much of an appetite.

I think about shifting and running again.

It’s easier to be in wolf form and not have to feel all these confusing, upsetting things all the time. Not have to worry about the packs or the businesses or if this is how the rest of my life is going to look…alone in a pack full of other wolves.

But shifting and running can’t be the answer every time I feel down.

I need to find other ways to cope, and hope that with time, things will get easier, because this is going to be my life now.

I have all these responsibilities, and I can’t see how Aaron and I will ever get past the ways we’ve wronged and hurt each other.

Sure, it seems like we’re going to work together temporarily to find out what happened to the Al weapons system, but after that, we might not ever have a reason to speak with each other again apart from basic formalities to do with the pack and corporations.

Being mated has only pushed Aaron further away from me, instead of bringing us together like it should have.

But it’s fine, I tell myself.

do with me,

walk down the stairs, and

work

and cry about things that

Beauty emerges,” a voice says from across the foyer as I reach the

stylish jacket, a friendly

“What brings you to Rathbom pack lands? If you’re here to see

assessing. “Everyone knows Aaron hasn’t been staying on Rathborn packlands for months. And please, let’s

you’d like to come through to the

with a smile that I’m not

he’s entitled to, which made me think he had some kind of agreement with Liam, but I also know he’s been friends with Aaron since before I even came to the

read, and I’m not sure what to think

my wolf, I can sense how wild he is, how close to the surface

a whiskey, neat, in a crystal tumbler,

barely cracks

can I do for you?” I ask, striving to keep my tone pleasant