Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 217

I use my heightened sense of hearing as I step through the front door of the mansion, picking up the low tones of James and Leah speaking in one of the sitting rooms.

Leah sounds upset and my steps quicken as I rush through the house to find her.

As soon as I walk into the doorway, Leah looks up.

Her hair is a mess, her eyes are red-rimmed and she’s pale.

She looks terrible, but at the same time, so achingly beautiful.

But, she’ll always be beautiful to me and my wolf, no matter the state that she’s in.

The relief and longing that crosses her face when she sees me makes my chest ache.

She jumps up from the couch and rushes across the room, throwing herself into my arms.

I catch her up against me, my worry for her climbing even higher.

James also gets up from where he was sitting in an adjacent armchair and crosses the room as well, but clearly because he’s leaving to give us some privacy.

I catch his eye with a questioning look as he draws even with

me.

“She found out about the attack at the hospital,” James says) which mostly explains everything and I feel my heart take on a new dimension of pain that Leah knows some of the terrible truth now.

“There’s more,” James adds, his expression becoming stormy. “But I’ll let Leah tell you.”

“Thank you, Beta,” I say in a low voice

“Thank you for taking

T

care

me one last nod

room.

stand

can feel her silent tears soaking the front of my

she found out

Adam the one who told

did he even hope to achieve

expressly forbid anyone

to think Leah would never learn the truth, but I’d wanted to spare her

could now see

the truth-that Ethan is alive and well-except if that ends in the next attempt on Ethan’s life being successful, then I

pain

once Leah knows the full truth-and I would tell her soon, I vowed

a while, I take Leah over to the couch where she was sitting earlier, and we both sit down, with Leah tucked securely info my

scratchy from crying so much. “Why you didn’t want to be around me, why you’ve been doing everything remotely, keeping yourself apart from everyone. This pain… How are we supposed to

down her face

tighter.

I tell her, because I

and then they’ll regret every choice

sits away from me a little to look at

doesn’t just look sad

the kind of wrath I’ve never witnessed in her

replies fiercely, and her wolf glows in her eyes for a moment. “If I can stand strong and hold

She’s right.

didn’t fight

I didn’t have to.

the

the night Liam

travesty.

of her Alpha powers.

she can and will