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

last nod of respect,

room.

a moment, I simply stand there and hold

silent tears soaking the front

she found out

Adam the one who told

did he even

forbid anyone

fo olish to think Leah would never learn the

pain that I could now see was

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

this 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

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

around me, why you’ve been doing

stream down

tighter.

her, because I

they’ll regret every choice they ever

sits away from me a little to look

doesn’t just look

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

them, together,” she replies fiercely, and her wolf glows in her eyes for a moment. “If I can stand strong and hold my oldest friend accountable for betraying me,

She’s right.

became Alpha, I didn’t

I didn’t have to.

is one of the strongest,

night Liam betrayed her was

travesty.

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

have no doubt that she