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

se nds me one last

room.

a moment, I simply stand there and hold

can feel her silent tears soaking the front of

that she found out

Adam the one who

what did he even

forbid anyone from

the truth, but I’d wanted to spare her the pain of knowing

I could now see

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

this pain and more-we

truth-and I would tell her soon, I vowed it on all of my ancestors-she

while, I take Leah over to the couch where she was sitting earlier, and

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

stream down

tighter.

her,

then they’ll regret every choice

me a little to look at

just look sad

burning with the kind of wrath I’ve never witnessed

in her eyes for a moment. “If I can stand strong and hold my oldest friend accountable

She’s right.

she became Alpha, I didn’t fight her

I didn’t have to.

is one of the strongest, bravest

happened the night Liam betrayed her was

travesty.

her Alpha powers. She is the

that she can