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

now, but as this progresses or if my

out…

I’m not

you do it

taking the pills?”

nod. Not regularly yet. But I will.

I won’t back down because he

yeah. Okay. We’ll find a

I pick at the sheet that’s draped

is elevated and there are pillows propped around

1. has various remotes for the tv

I see a vase of

get those for me?” I point

Your husband

AARON

*

says. “I’ll run you a

dinner up

She’d like that.

bath since I was six and

heal the worst of my wounds. The ones

treated by our pack physician.

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

fifty feet away overhearing everything we say.

another male made such an offer to her, I’d rip

want a divorce” decree has been

never bothered to curtail Jessica’s

try and force

appropriately.

4/5

served mine and we grew up together. It

from when we were kids that she would