Bad Love An Alpha’s Regret

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.

a deal. I’ll start treatments, but I do

we tell no

His eyes widen.

possible to

as this progresses or if my

out…

not

you do it

the pills?”

Not regularly yet. But I will.

sense that I won’t back down because he

yeah. Okay. We’ll

you.” I pick at the sheet that’s draped over my legs.

and there are

1. On the table that normally has various remotes for the tv

see a vase of lilacs.

get those for me?” I point at the pretty purple and

husband did.”

AARON

*

upstairs,” Jessica says. “I’ll run you a

bring dinner

She’d like

haven’t taken a bath since I was six and I’ve

of my wounds. The ones

by our

sure if Jessica is fluttering around me because she’s up to her usual routine or if it’s because Leah is awake

feet away overhearing everything we say.

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

maybe her “I want a divorce” decree

Because I’ve never

force her