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.

I’m frozen in place and whatever this is,

ask,

breaking the mating

or is uncomfortable about having to impart

it over and

her words

Didn’t survive.

stutter

even

I’m afraid

I reply,

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

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

the most powerful who fall the hardest,”

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

again. “This can’t be

know,” Karolina continues, as if my whole

right now. “In light

the Council have decided to let you off from your

Tobin’s death with light punishment. You may retain the

name only. The control of all four packs–Rathborn,

and Havelock–will remain under Council

the foreseeable future.”

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

I’m now existing in a

alive.

curtly. “Someone will be

to say anything else, simply turns

and leaves the room, shutting

behind her.

I can do is sit

because that’s going to make it real.

with Aaron’s death

I just can’t.

don’t know how to live when

I sit there,

to have

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