Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 197

AARON

The commotion my words cause would be laughable under any other circumstances.

Right now, however, I’m not laughing.

It’s all I can do to remain still as Tobin and the other Elders call

for order.

Every fiber of my being wants to chase after Leah.

To explain why I’m doing this, to make her understand this is

the only way I can protect her.

I don’t plan to actually go through with the divorce.

I just need Tobin-or whoever it is on the Council trying to kill me-to believe I don’t care about Leah in the slightest and keep her off their radar.

If anything happened to Leah, I know I would snap.

And like I told her earlier, I would burn the world down.

Eventually the Council brings the Powd

and by then, the aid has brought out the legal documents apparently stating that I will not make any move against the Council to claim any seats for myself.

Really, I should get my team of lawyers to look over this.

what else they could

wolf in the

handed a fountain

don’t sign it, that would be

would be within their rights to kill me or bind my

here and now.

pen and slash my signature across the bottom of

paper is going to stop

sorely mistaken.

there has tried

me killed.

of those faces peering down from that stage has transgressed me in

was, no contract is going to

you require of me?” I drawl, as if they’re beneath me and I have far better things to

than pander to them.

of them scowl, probably because they see

powerful than them, and I do have

Tobin says with a wave of his hand.

know that we are keeping a close

you.”

the way Tobin is looking at me, the way

said those words.

some other threat

the fact that he is the one who is

reading too much

barely polite half-bow, and then return to my

other wolves are gaping at

at some point Karolina returns from where she followed Leah, looking smug and I wonder