Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 256

Aaron straightens, expression furious and eyes glowing. “I

allowed my Alpha–my equal–to claim me, yes. Do you have a problem with that, Samsen?”

Samsen gulps and backs up a step.

If I wasn’t in so much pain, I might have found it amusing.

“Then the ceremony will have to be repeated by Luna Leah to fully break the mating bond both ways,” Samsen says, glancing at me expectantly.

With some difficulty I force myself back to my feet.

Now, I’m scared.

If Aaron breaking his mating claim was that painful–a pain I’m still feeling radiating through my body like hot iron–then

what the hell is going to happen when I break my claim on

him?

hand is shaking as I

holding it, suddenly I freeze.

don’t know if I can do this.

strong because that’s what Aaron and Ethan need me to be, but beneath all this pain, and the knowledge that I now have to do the same thing, cause both Aaron and myself even more

quiet voice. “I know this is hard, but you’re brave and strong–you always have been. That’s why I know you’re going to survive this, so you can

bring myself

blade across my

is blurred with tears, and I blink rapidly as I look at the ancient book Samsen is holding

Rathborn, of the Roberts bloodline, deny you, Aaron Rathborn, of the Rathborn bloodline. No longer shall our bond exclude us from all others. No longer do I recognize you as my mate. No longer do I claim

as my

worse in my chest,

done in blood, so it

and I don’t think I can move–so I reach up and set my bloody palm on his neck where I instinctively bit him last time we were together,

through my body–rips through both

of lightning striking a petrol tanker and exploding

into a fireball.

against him, but it doesn’t really help. It’s like the agony just keeps on expanding and

itself and building and building until reality is nothing but

and I distantly wonder if this is all I’ll be for eternity now, just an embodiment