Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 11

LEAH

I’m not going to lie, I feel a little happy.

Please don’t judge. I get it. I’m THAT girl.

The dumb one. The oh-you-got-your-heart-broke-again one.

The one who sits home waiting for him to call.

But what most people don’t know is that Aaron was the one to

sit up with me when I had nightmares. He was the one to insist

I learn to trade and to obtain my Series 7 license so I’d have a

career. Aaron is the one to stare me in the eyes everytime he

joins his body to mine.

And, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know it’s just sex.

But it’s not.

It’s more than that.

I know it. I believe it.

And deep down, I love him.

As rough and cold as he can be, I know there’s more to him

than he lets the world see.

2/5

I head into the kitchen and grab an apple from the giant bowl

in the middle of the prep table. It’s ripe and red and sweet.

are you

It’s Jessica.

down today and it

her like some goddamn shampoo

on

thought saddens me.

I didn’t ask to be Aaron’s wife. But I am. And I have been for a long time now. You don’t have to keep making things

snatches the apple from my hand. She

it into the

way, we wouldn’t just bleed you once a month,

no world in which your pack can absolve its

sins.”

her. “I was a child

were committed,

parents are dead. And

cousins and kin too. War is awful

that way.”

She huffs.

it? You’re a human. For the life of me,

why he even bothers to keep you around.

to this pack. No

That hurts.

or apologetic for her actions, trying to steal

husband. If I’m being fair, he was hers to begin

sanctity

mated. We are married.

has to count for something.

isn’t good

me. “I

if you think that Aaron

with being nice to her.

it’s the only warning I

scratch down my arms as

across the kitchen.

slam into the pantry door and stay

“Weak, pathetic human.”