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

assumed Liam had moved it

somehow

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 it after he was killed and

of makes sense, and once again, I vow I’m going to get to the

won’t ever tell me outright, not if he

on ridiculous, but I’m not

to have to figure out how to

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 he likes

the disastrous Council meeting.

I can see hints

doesn’t understand-mostly my wolf-even as

less sad about

about to start making excuses for

with the way he goes about things a lot of the time, especially in regards

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

the power of

legends, and wolves will

for generations to come.

culminate in Aaron losing it and going rogue because he’s trying to protect

crazy, but there’s also a

I do, I love him-then

one problem with