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.

doesn’t really help, but it also doesn’t make me feel

what happened?” James whispers

though it’s not really

the horror

within my soul, and I think maybe I won’t

saw Adam’s notes, his file. He’s been stalking me, keeping all these notes and records on me for 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

I’m sure Aaron doesn’t either, otherwise Adam would have already answered for it,” James says, a note of anger in

I think that’s something I need to

don’t need James or Aaron fighting my battles-or dealing with betrayals

we kept the truth from you. But believe me when I say, no one wanted you to have to bear

him?” I manage to hiccup

to tell me this. “We had you both in hospital then, because the baby needed to be in the NICU and Aaron didn’t

I can really hear this, if I really want to know, or if it’ll only

make a decision or say anything, James

who was behind it or why. At first, Aaron thought they were coming for him or even you.

I moan, curling tighter on myself. “No,

sorry, Leah,” James can barely get the words out. “Nothing could be more 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.

makes sense