Bad Love An Alpha’s Regret

Chapter 18

the meeting and back.

1 file out behind them.

When I get into his idling SUV and buckle my seatbelt Aaron

looks at me oddly. “You should stay home tonight,” he tells me.

It’s the first time he’s spoken to me since the attack. “I haven’t

missed a meeting since I came here.”

“You’re injured.”

The implication being that I’m ‘human’. That I’m weak.

True, but … “It’s because I was attacked that I should be present. There are threats that the Council needs to be aware

of.”

“Do you plan to petition them for a divorce?”

So that’s why he wants me to stay. To silence me. He has the nerve to look earnest and upset that I want to leave him when he is the one who broke his vows and impregnated another

woman.

the one who hasn’t slept beside me in a week.

want a divorce,

flash gold for a moment before he banks the emotion. Then he shrugs. “Suit

the driver, a wolf named

3/5

back into the seat. I’m painfully aware of this man and

tumultuous emotions he stirs in

shifts his leg so it presses against mine, I wonder if I can endure his

two

already cars are arriving and prominent alphas from across this part

and gowns. Others are in

formal uniform or etiquette and

each ruling family is almost a calling card

brand of influence.

and

on his wrist is worth more than this car and though he doesn’t flaunt it, he projects power and wealth.

father and brother are at the front of the

and polished shoes. New money. The

couple surrounded by several wolves

look dirt poor, they’re sitting on more land than some small

extends his hand to help

a walking cast on. My

Aside from aches and pains and

I look the

drawn back into a simple ponytail.