Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 258

Chapter 258

LEAH

I blink my eyes open and grimace when I realize my whole body hurts.

I feel like I’ve been run over by a truck. And a train. And then a steamroller.

Every muscle aches and every joint hurts and for a minute I can’t remember what happened.

And I don’t know where I am.

In some kind of office, and I’ve been left lying on a narrow cot.

Just as I sit up, the door opens and Karolina comes in.

In that second, all the memories of the past days come flooding back, and I gasp, my hand flying to my chest.

I feel so empty.

The absence of my mating bond with Aaron is like a black hole inside me.

It’s a void at the very center of my soul that’s never going to

be filled.

“Good, you’re awake.” Karolina is carrying an electrolyte drink, which she brings over and hands to me.

I take it with a murmured thanks, immediately worried about how grim she looks and the general negative vibe she’s giving off.

“Is everything okay?” I ask, but then feel stupid for asking that question.

Of course everything isn’t okay.

I’ve just been forced to reject my mate and break our mating bond, and my husband–the love of my life–is going to be

executed at the next full moon.

“I’m afraid I have some bad news,” Karolina says, crossing her arms and avoiding my gaze.

I squeeze the electrolyte bottle until my knuckles ache,

wanting to escape this room before I have to hear whatever it is that Karolina’s going to tell me.

and whatever

I ask,

the mating bond,”

no–nonsense voice, as if she doesn’t really care, or

it over and done with.

words really

Didn’t survive.

I stutter

even more closed

afraid

he’s so strong,” I

surviving when we broke the mating

just can’t wrap my head around how I could

sometimes it’s the most powerful who fall the hardest,”

a shudder of grief going through my body, painful and twisting, like I’m feeling the

“This

continues, as if my whole

right now. “In

Council have decided to let you off

punishment. You may retain

The control of

and Havelock–will

the foreseeable future.”

I agree, but in that second, I can’t care

existing in a world where Aaron is no longer

alive.

called Rathborn mansion and told them the news,” Karolina says curtly. “Someone will be here shortly to pick you up and take you home.”

to say anything else, simply turns

the room, shutting the

behind her.

I can do is sit there in frozen, silent grief.

to move, because that’s

can’t cope with Aaron’s death

I just can’t.

when Aaron isn’t

I sit there, unmoving, barely breathing.

ceased to have

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