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

he’d assumed Liam

if somehow

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

sense, and once again, I vow

not if

protective streak borders on ridiculous, but I’m not going to let

I’m going to have to

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

after the disastrous Council meeting. That Aaron keeping himself

I think I can see hints of

and doesn’t understand-mostly my wolf-even as the rest of me understands all

me any less sad about

I’m not about to start

about things a lot of the time, especially

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

power

legends, and wolves will talk

for generations to come.

wonder, do I want to see all of that culminate in Aaron losing it and going rogue

crazy, but there’s also a

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

one problem