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.

could have hidden amongst

every other wolf

a

I don’t sign it, that would be tantamount

would be within their rights to kill me or bind

here and now.

signature across the bottom of the page,

they think a piece of paper

sorely mistaken.

has tried numerous times

me killed.

stage has transgressed me in a way that cannot

out who it was, no contract is going to prevent

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

than pander to them.

them scowl, probably because they see the truth of

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

says with a wave of

that we are keeping a close eye

you.”

pause as I take in the way Tobin

said those words.

other threat

he is the one who is out to

simply reading too

polite half-bow,

way other wolves are gaping

some other formalities, and at some point Karolina returns from where she