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

good care of

nds me one last nod of

room.

moment, I simply stand there

silent tears

angry that she found out about

Adam the one who

he even

expressly forbid anyone from talking about

it’d been fo olish to think Leah would never learn the truth, but I’d wanted to spare her the pain of knowing

I could now see was tearing her

the truth-that Ethan is alive and well-except if that ends in the next

pain and more-we both

believe that once Leah knows the full truth-and I would tell her soon, I vowed it on all of my ancestors-she will forgive me once she understands I’m doing it

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

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 live with it? Who would

well of tears stream down her face and I

tighter.

her,

then they’ll regret every choice they

from me a little

just look

with the kind of wrath I’ve never witnessed in her

“If I can stand strong and hold my oldest friend accountable for betraying me, then you can be sure I

She’s right.

Alpha, I didn’t fight her

I didn’t have to.

one of the strongest,

that happened the night Liam betrayed her was

travesty.

shouldn’t have ended up in possession of her Alpha powers. She is

she