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.

could resist falling

brought to my house, I knew there was something

today, despite

half life, existing in the shadows, punishing Leah

her, or keep parts of myself

secret-have spun the biggest lie-of my entire life, keeping the

how wrong it is, but everytime I think of how close I

entire body gets jolted by

absolute body-numbing fear the

rip my heart out of my chest and send me to the kinds of extremes I’d fa ced when my

ever feel

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

and the love of

my power to protect Leah, but if someone got to her, and she let slip the truth our son was

would, at least not without getting

can’t confess what she

her heart on her sleeve-it helps

my SUV and then climb out, I see Adam being escorted out of the mansion by a couple of my