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

the Elders, matters of treachery or broken

a wolf over to humans. Not willingly,

anyway.

the result I was hoping

to count

I can say for

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

door ever

intentionally gentle

wants to slam it.

climbs in from the opposite side, slides across the bench

to me and then barks,

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at the wheel this time, and I wonder what that’s about. Typically, Aaron doesn’t go anywhere without James or William, so it’s weird not to

vehicle with me.

are nowhere to

left Aaron instructs the

we going?” I

his lips

I

dad.

to going wherever he wants to go

of this could have been avoided,”

me.”

a face. I stare at him for a

You’re

I

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me in a room with no food for a week. The man who set me up to be convicted of embezzling-only to pin it on