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.

else they could

Council and every other wolf in the hall is

a

it, that would be tantamount

would be within their rights to kill

here and now.

my signature across the bottom

think a piece of paper is going to stop me,

sorely mistaken.

there has tried numerous times

me killed.

faces peering down from that stage has transgressed me in a

no contract is going to prevent me from taking

there anything else you require of me?” I drawl, as if they’re beneath me

than pander to them.

of them scowl, probably because they see the truth

superior and more powerful than them, and I do have better things to

are dismissed,” Tobin says with a wave of his hand.

are keeping a

you.”

take in the way Tobin is looking at me, the

said those words.

other threat

fact that he is

reading too much

half-bow, and then return to my

the way other wolves are gaping at

other formalities, and at some point Karolina returns from where she followed Leah, looking smug and I wonder what that’s