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 of my

one last nod of respect, before

room.

a moment, I simply stand there and

feel her silent tears

found out about

Adam the one who

what did he even hope

forbid anyone

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

now see was tearing her

alive and well-except if that ends in the next attempt on Ethan’s life

feel this pain and more-we both

would tell her soon, I vowed it on all of my ancestors-she will forgive me once she understands I’m doing it to save

Leah over to the couch where she was sitting earlier, and we both

says sadly, her voice scratchy from crying so much. “Why you didn’t want to be around me, why you’ve been

tears stream down her face and I

tighter.

know,” I tell her,

to find them, and then they’ll regret every

from me a little

doesn’t just look sad

the kind of wrath I’ve never

hold my oldest friend accountable for betraying me, then you can be sure I can make our enemies wish

She’s right.

Alpha, I didn’t fight her battles for

I didn’t have to.

of the strongest, bravest

happened the night Liam betrayed her was

travesty.

have ended up in possession of her Alpha powers. She is the

doubt that she can and