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.

place and whatever this is, I can’t escape

ask,

survive breaking the mating bond,” Karolina

she doesn’t really care, or is uncomfortable

it over and done with.

then her words

Didn’t survive.

dead?” I stutter out

expression even more

afraid so.”

I

everything else going on, Aaron not surviving when we broke the mating bond

I just can’t wrap my head around how I

who fall the hardest,” Karolina says.

body, painful and twisting, like I’m feeling the

again. “This can’t be happening.”

should also know,” Karolina continues, as

right now. “In

the Council have decided to let you off from your part

death with light punishment.

The control

Havelock–will

the

as if I agree, but in that

when I’m now existing in a world where Aaron

alive.

“Someone will be

me to say anything

heel and leaves the room, shutting the door soundly

behind her.

sit there in frozen,

want to move, because that’s going

I can’t cope with

I just can’t.

how to live when Aaron isn’t by my

idea how long I sit there, unmoving,

has ceased to

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