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.

when he’d gone to secure the

place had already been cleaned out, so he’d assumed Liam

if somehow

confiscated it all because he

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

ever tell me outright, not if he

on ridiculous, but I’m not going to let that deter

to have to

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. That Aaron keeping himself apart from me is starting to make him come

think I can see hints of

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

me any less

to start making excuses for

he goes about things a lot of the time,

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

power

mate is the stuff of legends, and wolves will

for generations to come.

culminate in Aaron losing it

bond is crazy, but there’s also a twisted kind of sense to it I can’t

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

one