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

okay now, but as this progresses or if my hair

out…

I’m not

it or not?”

the

regularly yet. But I will.

won’t back

We’ll

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

there are pillows propped around

1. that normally has various

I see a

those for me?” I point

Your husband did.”

AARON

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you a

dinner up to your bedroom.”

like

a bath since I was six and

worst of my wounds. The

been treated by our pack

is fluttering around me because she’s up to her usual routine or if

overhearing everything we say.

to her, I’d rip

a divorce” decree has been

Because I’ve never bothered to curtail Jessica’s

or to try and force her to conduct herself more

appropriately.

4/5

and we grew up together.

when we were kids