Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 209

I wake up the next morning and Aaron is gone.

He never really did answer when I’d asked him what he wanted, instead he’d diverted me by making love for the second time, and then an hour or two later, I’d awoken to him already worshiping my body and he’d taken me for a third

time.

Each time had been more intense than the last, and I could feel the mating bond between us getting stronger and stronger.

I feel sore and lethargic this morning, but not in a bad way.

As I climb out of bed, I see a folded note on the bedside table, Aaron’s neat writing on it.

pick it up and scan the contents.

Leah, I hope one day you understand why I’m doing all this.

Typical of Aaron, no apology and no actual explanation.

But I’m beginning to think I understand him and his

motivations better than maybe he’d like me to.

And it feels like there’s more behind the words of the note. I could practically feel it through the mating bond last night, these shadowy places in his heart and soul where he’s hiding things from me.

he’d gone

had already been cleaned out, so he’d assumed Liam had moved it all in

if somehow Aaron was

Aaron either found out about the tech right before Liam got killed, and confiscated it all because he understood how dangerous it was and never did trust my brother, or he discovered where Liam stashed it after

of makes sense, and once again, I vow I’m going to get to the bottom

ever tell me outright, not if he thinks

ridiculous, but I’m not going to

mean I’m going to have to figure out

and his own corporation, but if Aaron finds out and gets angry about it, I’ll just turn the tables on him and tell him

merry-go-round of thoughts brings me back to what Karolina said after the disastrous Council

I think I can see hints of it as

hurt and doesn’t understand-mostly my wolf-even as the rest

any less sad about

not about to start making excuses

don’t agree with the way he goes about things a lot of the time, especially in regards to how

never been another Alpha

has the power of

stuff of legends, and wolves will talk

for generations to come.

that culminate in Aaron losing it and going rogue because

I reject Aaron and break the mating bond is crazy, but there’s also a twisted kind of sense to it I

about Aaron-which I do,

one problem