Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 214

I wake up again as I’m shifting back. I can feel that my wolf is exhausted, and I think maybe she ran and ran and ran until she couldn’t run anymore.

Tears immediately wet my eyes, and I blink at the streaks of lavender and pink painting the sky with dawn.

“Leah?”

I roll over to see James a few steps away. He’s panting and looks completely wiped out. Did he chase us the whole night?

For a split second I feel bad, but then everything comes flooding back and it eclipses anything else I might have felt in that moment.

I’ve never felt so lost and broken, and all my wolf wants is her

mate.

All I want is Aaron.

And even though I know nothing is ever going to ease the grief or fill the hole left in the very center of my being over losing my baby, at least being in Aaron’s arms will bring me a small measure of comfort.

James closes the distance between us and I let him pull me into an embrace.

help, but it also doesn’t make me

happened?” James whispers to

it’s not really because it’s a cold

horror of

my soul, and I think maybe I

years. And for some reason, he injected me with my father’s blood the same day Brian took me into the woods to steal my family’s Alpha powers. And my baby-” I can’t say anything else as I start sobbing,

answered for it,” James says, a note of anger

that’s something I

need James or Aaron fighting my battles-or dealing with betrayals of friendship-for

baby, I’m sorry, Leah. Especially that we kept the truth from you. But believe me when I say, no one wanted you to have to bear

him?” I manage

in a halting voice, and I can tell he wishes he didn’t have to be the one to tell me this. “We had you both in hospital then, because the

worst and for a second I wonder if I

a

attack. We don’t know who was behind it or why. At first, Aaron thought they were coming for him

moan, curling tighter

evil than taking a new, innocent life, and I wish I could tell you we found out who was behind it and Aaron got his revenge. He’s been searching ever since. He’ll

all makes