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.

whatever this is, I can’t escape

I ask, my stomach

didn’t survive breaking the mating bond,”

in a no–nonsense voice, as if she doesn’t really care, or is uncomfortable

it over and done with.

her words

Didn’t survive.

dead?” I stutter out

even more

afraid so.”

I reply, totally bewildered.

on, Aaron not surviving when we broke

just can’t wrap my

who fall the hardest,” Karolina

through my body, painful and twisting, like I’m

over again. “This can’t be

should also know,” Karolina continues, as if my whole

me right now.

the Council have decided to let you off

punishment. You may retain the title

Alpha in name only. The

Havelock–will remain

the

I agree, but in that second, I can’t care about any of

when I’m now existing in a world where

alive.

them the news,” Karolina says curtly. “Someone will be here shortly to pick you

to say anything else, simply

the room, shutting the door soundly

behind her.

do is sit there in frozen, silent grief.

don’t want to move, because that’s going to make it real.

I can’t cope with Aaron’s death being real.

I just can’t.

don’t know how to live when Aaron isn’t by my side.

no idea how long I sit

to have

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