Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 16

I must pass out because when I wake up, I’m in the living room on the couch and I’m hooked up to an IV. There are machines beeping around me and it’s like the den has been turned into an infirmary.

“You flatlined,” Adam explains. “We didn’t have time to carry you up the twenty flights of stairs to your room.”

“It’s not that far,” I say automatically.

“It is when you’re not breathing.”

I sit up. I’m groggy and disoriented.

I hear voices coming from the kitchen. “Oh, come here, baby.

Let me clean you up.” It’s Jessica. She’s fawning over Aaron.

“You look terrible,” Adam tells me.

“It’s good to see you too.”

“We should move you to a hospital.”

I glance nervously at the kitchen then back at him. “Will they let me out if I get admitted?”

Adam bites his lip.

That’s what I thought.

2/5

I don’t want to spend what time I have left in a hospital bed, alone. Trapped from the world.

“I’ll make you a deal. I’ll start treatments, but I do it from here.

And we tell no one.”

His eyes widen.

it’s even possible to keep such a secret.

as this progresses or if my hair falls

out…

not

do it or not?”

taking the pills?”

nod. Not regularly yet. But I will.

won’t back down because he relents.

yeah. Okay. We’ll

you.” I pick at the sheet

is elevated and there are pillows propped around

1. has various remotes for

a vase of lilacs.

for me?” I point at the

Your husband did.”

AARON

*

Jessica says. “I’ll run you

I’ll bring dinner up to

She’d like

taken a bath since I was six and

heal the worst of my wounds. The ones that

treated by our

not sure if Jessica is fluttering around me because she’s up to her

overhearing everything

another male made such an offer to her, I’d rip his head off.

want a divorce” decree

while. Because I’ve never bothered to

or to try and force her

appropriately.

4/5

mine and we grew up together. It had

were kids