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 this is, I can’t escape it.

happened?” I ask, my stomach churning.

breaking the mating bond,”

or is uncomfortable about having to impart this news, and

and

then her words really

Didn’t survive.

stutter

even

I’m afraid

strong,” I

going on, Aaron not surviving when we broke the mating bond never even

of three Alpha’s!” I just can’t wrap my head around how I could have

most powerful who

grief going through my body, painful

again. “This

also know,” Karolina continues, as

around me right now. “In light of

have decided to let you off

death with light punishment. You may retain the title

in name only. The

Havelock–will

for the

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

in a world where Aaron is no longer

alive.

“Someone will be here shortly to

wait for me to

and leaves the room, shutting

behind her.

sit

that’s going to make it

cope with Aaron’s death being

I just can’t.

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

long I sit there, unmoving,

has ceased to have any

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