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

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

if somehow Aaron was

before Liam got killed, and confiscated it all because he understood how dangerous it was and never did trust my brother, or he discovered where Liam stashed

and once again, I vow I’m going to

me outright, not if

I’m not going

does mean I’m going to have to

maybe his offices at both Roberts Corp and his own corporation, 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

said after the disastrous Council meeting. That Aaron keeping himself apart from me is starting

think I can see hints of it as

my wolf-even as the rest of me

less

not about to start making excuses for

things a lot of

get that there’s never been another Alpha like Aaron,

has the power of

stuff of legends, and wolves will talk about

for generations to come.

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

suggestion that I reject Aaron and break the mating bond is crazy, but there’s also a twisted kind of sense to it I

do,

one problem