Bad Love An Alpha’s Regret

Chapter 9

“Leah!”

The roar echoes through the house.

Aaron is home.

And he is in a bad mood.

“I have to go, Adam. I’ll call you soon.”

“Wait! There’s something-”

I click off the phone and shove it into the back pocket of my

jeans.

Then I run down the stairs-it’s way easier going down than

up-and follow his hollering to the study.

Aaron is at his computer. He motions for me to sit beside him.

I hold my breath.

Being alone with this man…does something to me.

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even that feels like an insult. That I should crave this man, that 1 should want to mate and celebrate life, even as my

maybe it is my imminent death that has me clinging

hard.

And where the hell did you go the other

up to the point of starvation and I wouldn’t tell him. I cast him

tell him now?

growls. “You’re very frustrating, Leah.”

locking me away or resorting to

other awful tactic.

called the main packhouse,” he tells me.

When I was imprisoned my phone died and I wasn’t

call

said, Aaron strides back to his computer. He has several spreadsheets up for stocks he’s been tracking and I go and sit near him so I can see. Because that’s why