Bad Love An Alpha’s Regret

Chapter 10

“I thought you left.”

He stands by the door, watching me as I’ve been working from my phone, where I’ve been alternating between reading the financial reports he left queued on his computer, and

transferring the money.

“I hope you didn’t do something you’ll regret,” he says.

Like handing over millions of dollars that my husband likely considers ‘ours’ to my father-his enemy?

“No. Of course not,” I say easily.

He snorts.

I point to two companies whose shares we’ve both been following for a while. “You marked these to offload. Is there something wrong with the financial projections?”

He nods. “Both companies are about to go belly up.”

Oh no. I bought ten thousand shares of each on behalf of my father’s pack last month. I don’t exactly hide that I make those investments, but technically it’s all managed by my father, I

just pass along information from my research or that Aaron

shares with me.

He smirks. Then he comes back into the room, tilts up my chin with his big hand and kisses me. “I’m sorry,” he whispers.

I’m pretty sure my mouth is still hanging open as he leaves.

Those two words…

To hear him say them, to apologize.

Aaron doesn’t ‘do’ apologies.

And just moments ago he was smirking. What exactly is he apologizing for, I wonder. Not that it matters. It’s enough that he gave me the words. Finally.

I sink back into the chair. Shocked. Elated.

my

again.

moments.

heated embraces and possessive glances. The way he holds me at night, or

man with a single look, with

of my

my

is cold and controlled

these glimpses

are what give me hope.

is more to

is really dangerous for a dying girl like n

*

*

AARON

the hallway and listen.

can hear Leah’s shuttered breaths.

confused her, as I’ve intended.

to break her is not

too strong

and open and her trusting nature…now that is a prime

have every intention of keeping her where

belongs.

4/7

Here.

I can feel her joy, like some

phone blinks and I see that funds have been transferred. I’ve never micromanaged her finances before, because I didn’t have a reason to. She

or expensive

funds she had from

I allowed her to manage them as she chose to.

money when she was

over.

touched a dime of my wife’s. But from the moment she went ‘missing’ last

whereabouts with her cell and

accounts. From coins for a game on her iphone to Amazon orders she has sent

of the charges are

But