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.

bits of my heart coming back together

again.

these moments. The

heated embraces and possessive glances. The way he holds me

this man with a single look, with one

my

touch my

controlled

glimpses

what give me hope.

maybe there is more to our relationship.

hope is really dangerous for a dying girl

*

*

AARON

the hallway and

Leah’s shuttered

confused her, as I’ve intended.

her is

too strong for

and her trusting nature…now that is a prime

of keeping

belongs.

4/7

Here.

can feel her joy, like some force of positive

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

clothes or expensive jewelry.

home but the funds she had from her dowry were hers,

allowed her to manage them

father gave her a pittance of money when she was pledged to

over.

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

cell and I now get an update

game on her iphone

of the charges are subscriptions

But that account transfer