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

killed, the place had already been cleaned out, so he’d assumed Liam had moved it all in his attempts to screw

somehow Aaron was

but Aaron either found out about the tech right before Liam got killed, and confiscated it all because he understood

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

outright, not

but I’m not going

does mean I’m going to have

but if Aaron finds 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 he likes

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

I think I can see hints

wolf-even as the rest of me understands all too

less

about to start

he goes about things a lot of the time,

another Alpha like Aaron, and

has the power of

mate is the stuff of legends, and wolves will talk

for generations to come.

do I want to see all of that culminate in Aaron losing it and going rogue because he’s

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

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

just one problem with