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 to secure the Al

he’d assumed Liam had moved it all in his attempts to screw over everyone-and most especially

if somehow

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

vow I’m going to get to

won’t ever tell me outright, not if he

on ridiculous, but I’m

to have to figure out how

angry about it, I’ll just turn the tables on him and tell him I’m doing it for

said after the disastrous Council meeting.

can see hints of

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

me any less sad about

not about to start making excuses

goes about things a lot of the time, especially in regards to

get that there’s never been another Alpha like Aaron, and might not ever be

the power of

mate is the stuff of legends, and wolves will talk

for generations to come.

all of that culminate in Aaron losing it and going rogue because he’s trying to protect me above

reject Aaron and break the mating bond is crazy, but there’s also a

herself. If I still care about Aaron-which I do, I love him-then maybe it would be the lesser of two

just one