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.

me for who I am,

I took

in which having them together and against me

reach the doorway, I hear James

you were coming home,”

pause just inside the doorway where they can’t

listen in.

could I not come home?

Basically, every wolf in Montana is talking about

as soon as I heard. Aaron

He should have been my mate. I needed to be

the funeral.”

walk away, not waiting to hear

response to that.

my stomach tighten with an old, familiar

right to claim

life.

what real love

Aaron and I shared was nothing compared to whatever young romance they had

came

and her whole life is over while I do the real work of

welfare of the packs

go back to

I get the feeling hoping Jessica

Tera. As I’d

new nursery that James put together

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

a

a comfortable recliner/rocker chair to

settling Ethan, and I sink

Ethan in my arms, fussing for his

his milk, I smile and feel grateful for this

far between, with our lives being so complicated like they are, so I want to make sure I treasure the times when its just me and him, and things are

bottle empties and Ethan starts lulling off to sleep, my mind starts going back to all the problems I