Bad Love An Alpha’s Regret

Chapter 22

LEAH

The rest of the meeting is a blur.

Aaron hauls me to my feet and starts talking over the noise in the room about ‘personally conducting an investigation.’ And then, out of deference to me, he offered to pay my father’s bad debt so that the Regional Council would not be impacted

while he sorted through matters.

Which, of course, made everyone think he was some kind of

savior.

But could you really praise a firefighter for saving a burning building if he was the one who started the fire in the first

place?

No. Of course not.

And what Aaron did is criminal and gaslighting and all kinds

of twisted.

But it isn’t just Aaron who came out of the meeting smelling

like roses.

I made a good impression too, apparently. I struck a chord with some of the Elders. And they’ve granted my father a

reprieve because of it.

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it held packs. together. At least a few of the council members appreciated my display of loyalty and my willingness to sacrifice myself

time of the Elders, matters of treachery or broken laws

a wolf over to

anyway.

result I was hoping for but

to count

can say for me.

on my arm and brings me out of the building to the car. He opens the door, physically

the door ever so gently.

the kind of intentionally gentle gesture

wants to

from the opposite side,

sitting next to me and

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I wonder what that’s about. Typically, Aaron doesn’t go anywhere without James or William, so

the vehicle with me.

vehicles are nowhere to be seen.

left Aaron instructs the driver to go right.

going?” I ask.

his

do anything. I promised. Hoping he’d

dad.

extends to going wherever he wants to go and not

this could have been avoided,”

me.”

make a face. I

You’re serious.”

I am.”

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who locks. me in a room with no food for a week. The man who set me up