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.

to keep such a secret.

this progresses or if my hair

out…

I’m not sure-”

do it or not?”

taking the

regularly yet.

must sense that I won’t

We’ll find a way.”

pick at the sheet that’s draped over my legs. My

and there are pillows propped around

1. normally has various remotes for the

I see a vase of lilacs.

get those for me?” I point at the pretty

husband

AARON

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“I’ll run you a bath and

dinner up to your bedroom.”

like that.

haven’t taken a bath since I was six

heal the worst of my wounds. The ones that remain

by our

up to her usual routine or if it’s because Leah is awake and

away overhearing

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

“I want a divorce” decree

I’ve never bothered to curtail

to try and force

appropriately.

4/5

had served mine and we grew up together.

were kids that she