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.

really help, but it

what happened?” James whispers

shiver, though it’s not really because it’s

the horror of

is radiating deep from within my soul, and I think maybe I won’t feel warm

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

otherwise Adam would have already answered for it,” James says, a note of anger in his voice that tells me Adam will definitely

that’s something I need to deal with

or Aaron fighting my battles-or dealing with betrayals of

believe me when I say, no one wanted you to have

I manage to

then, because the baby needed to be in the NICU and Aaron didn’t want to have to split his time between you both. He insisted on keeping you both close and

takes a breath, and it’s like he’s bracing himself. for the worst and for a second I wonder if I can really hear this, if I really want to know, or

before I can make a decision

or why. At first, Aaron thought they were coming for him or even you. He never

curling tighter on myself. “No,

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.

all makes