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.

had said when he’d gone to secure the Al tech

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

somehow Aaron

Liam’s attempts to kill me, but 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

makes sense, and once again, I vow I’m going

won’t ever tell me outright, not if he thinks I’m better

ridiculous, but I’m not

have to

out and gets angry about it, I’ll just turn the tables on him and tell him I’m doing it for his own good, for his protection, and see how

back to what Karolina said after the disastrous Council meeting. That Aaron keeping himself apart

think I can see hints of it

is hurt and doesn’t understand-mostly my wolf-even as the rest of me understands

any less sad about

not about to start making excuses

with the way he goes about things a lot of the

another Alpha like Aaron, and

the power of three

legends, and wolves will

for generations to come.

of that culminate in Aaron losing it and going rogue because he’s

break the mating bond is crazy,

herself. If I still care about Aaron-which I do, I love him-then maybe

just one