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.

gone to secure the

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

what if somehow

right before Liam got killed, and confiscated it all because he understood how dangerous it was and never did trust

again, I vow I’m

know Aaron won’t ever tell me outright, not if he thinks I’m better off-safer-not

but I’m not going to let that

mean I’m going to have to figure out how to

gets angry about it, I’ll just turn the tables on him

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

see hints of it

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

less sad about

I’m not about to start making

things a lot of the time, especially in regards to

another Alpha

power

legends, and

for generations to come.

Aaron losing it

reject Aaron and break the mating bond is crazy,

still care about Aaron-which I do, I love him-then maybe it would be

one