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.

who hasn’t slept

still want

for a moment before he banks the emotion. Then he shrugs.

nods to the driver, a wolf

3/5

I’m painfully aware

emotions he stirs in me.

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

two hours.

the Regional grounds, already cars are arriving and prominent alphas from across this part of the country are exiting

and gowns. Others are in jeans

shirts. There is no formal uniform or etiquette and the

family is almost a calling

of influence.

has on a v-neck shirt and linen pants. The light colors

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

and polished shoes. New money. The flashy kind.

surrounded by several wolves wear jeans

the far north, and while they look dirt poor, they’re sitting on more land than

extends his hand to

My foot is mostly healed. It

which is good. Aside from aches and

I look the

dark hair is drawn back into a