Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 267

LEAH

I don’t know why I’m surprised to find out Emily and Jessica were best friends, considering Aaron and James are equally close, and they all grew up together.

I climb slowly out of the SUV and then walk around to join James.

“Did you know she was coming home?” I ask him, trying to

keep the accusation out of my voice.

He knows how contentious things have been between me and Jessica over the years, with Aaron firmly in the middle. The least he could have done was given me a heads up.

“No, I didn’t know,” James says, shaking his head.

I can tell he’s being truthful, so that alleviates some of my annoyance at least.

Aaron had mentioned that Jessica had taken an extended vacation and gone to stay with some relatives in another pack somewhere–at his expense of course–and it’d been easy to put her from my mind and simply believe she might never

come back.

Her timing, however, couldn’t have been worse.

I don’t want to have to deal with her and all that petty rivalry right now with everything else going on.

Eventually, Emily and Jessica are over the shock of their

unexpected reunion and I slowly walk toward the mansion, debating whether I should ask Jessica why she’s come back.

As I get closer, her eyes narrow, and that pretty much seals

the deal for me.

Jessica and her nastiness are not worth my time or energy right now.

I ignore her and keep walking, but I can hear her and Emily whispering between themselves, and know they’re talking

about me.

who I am, and Jessica hates me for what

I took

is no way in which having them together

reach the doorway, I hear James greet his

I didn’t know you were coming home,” he says, and

the doorway where

listen in.

not come home? I heard about

every wolf in Montana is talking

as soon as I heard. Aaron

been my mate. I needed to be

the funeral.”

away, not waiting to hear what James

response to that.

words make my stomach tighten with an old, familiar churn

doesn’t have the right to claim Aaron was the love

life.

she knows what real

connection that Aaron and I shared was nothing compared to whatever young romance

I came along.

and her whole life

of the packs and running the

she’ll go back to wherever she was once the

I get the feeling hoping Jessica will leave might be wishful

find Ethan with Tera. As I’d hoped, it’s time for his next feed.

nursery that James put together while

in a room across from Aaron’s bedroom, and I have to say,

a

recliner/rocker chair to sit in while I’m

and I sink into the

in my arms, fussing for his bottle.

down his milk, I smile and feel grateful

few and far between, with our lives being so complicated like they are, so I want to make sure I treasure the times

the bottle empties and Ethan starts lulling off to sleep,