Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 216

AARON

I head back to the Rathborn mansion, sad to be leaving Ethan, but I know he’s in good hands with Lillian, who is the pack’s main nanny.

I feel bad that the rest of the Rathborn pack is being denied her services right now, but there was another wolf Lillian has been training who was happy to step up and take Lillian’s place while Lillian is on ‘holidays.

The need to see Leah has been like a thorn in my skin for the past few hours.

I know much of it is driven by the desire of my wolf to see his mate, but a lot of it is also the simple fact that I’ve finally allowed myself to fully love Leah with everything that I am.

It’s almost impossible to tell where my feelings as a man who loves Leah end, and the instincts of my wolf to be with his mate begin, so I don’t even try.

The fact is, we both want Leah and her wolf, and that’s all that matters.

I was wrong before, thinking I was better off keeping myself

detached.

That I could somehow be with her and keep her at arm’s length for our entire lives.

I could resist

the day she was brought to my house, I knew there was something special about

into the woman she’s become today, despite all the challenges she fa ced, including my own indifference

I can see I was living this half life, existing

or keep parts of myself

I’m keeping the biggest secret-have spun the biggest lie-of my entire life, keeping the existence of Leah’s son from

is, but everytime I think of how close I came to losing him during the attack at the

my entire body gets jolted

felt absolute body-numbing fear

and send me to the kinds of extremes I’d

ever feel that

to the bottom of who is trying to k ill me, and who orchestrated

already vulnerable enough with my mate and

got

without

confess what she

she’s grieving-with her heart on her sleeve-it helps

out, I see Adam being escorted out of the mansion by a couple of my