Bad Love An Alpha’s Regret

Chapter 21

LEAH

Wolves don’t beg.

They don’t grovel or back down,

A pack’s value comes from its strength.

I tilt my chin up.

I may be on my knees, but it doesn’t make me weak.

My will is strong. So is my willingness to fix this mess I’ve made.

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If Aaron won’t be reasonable then I will rely on the mercy of this Council.

“Ma’am Karolina, are we not all wolves?” I say.

Her lips purse. It’s a not so subtle reminder that everyone here is a wolf-except me.

“Our numbers are low,” I press on. “Our strength is tied to our

unity as a species. There must be justice, yes, but also mercy

member of every pack might

head encouraging me

greater purpose and meaning. I’m dying.

of our collective packs-1, Leah

ahead,” Council member Karolina tells me.

offer myself as tribute in place

body!”

AARON

Leah gasps.

are you

Council. “Alpha Aaron is a

would want to shield me. But I stand by my vow. Please accept me as tribute in my father’s stead, and I beg you to show my father

attest, I sometimes make mistakes with

accounting.”

there it is.

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Acknowledging I’m her husband and

ideas of divorce she may have

dark and possessive washes over

her

hearing her

want to twist my hands in her hair and

into her flesh and mark her skin so that

room-in this world-will know she belongs to

ever do such