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.

even possible to keep such a secret.

okay now, but as this progresses or

out…

not

you do it or not?”

the pills?”

regularly yet. But I will.

sense that I won’t back

Okay. We’ll find a

I pick at the sheet that’s

and there are

1. table that normally has

see a

for me?” I point at the pretty purple and

Your husband

AARON

*

says. “I’ll run you

dinner

like that.

a bath since

the worst of my

treated by our pack

me because she’s up to her usual routine

overhearing everything

to her, I’d

want a

while. Because I’ve never bothered to

and force her

appropriately.

4/5

had served mine and we grew

assumed from when we were kids that she would