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. The tender ones.

glances. The way he holds me at night, or does

man with a single look, with

of my body.

touch my mouth.

controlled and closed off.

glimpses of warmth…

what give me hope.

more

is really dangerous for a dying girl like

*

*

AARON

wait in the hallway and

Leah’s shuttered

confused her, as I’ve

her is not with force.

too strong for

trusting nature…now that is a prime thing for me to exploit.

I have every intention of keeping her where she

belongs.

4/7

Here.

her joy, like some

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

or expensive jewelry. She sends money

but the funds she had from her dowry

her to manage

she was pledged to

over.

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

cell and I now get an update

for a game on her iphone to Amazon orders she has

charges are subscriptions for regular,

and necessities. But that account