Bad Love An Alpha’s Regret

Chapter 22

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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together. At least a few of the council members appreciated my display of

matters of treachery or broken

wolf over

anyway.

hoping

has to count

I can say

out of the building to the car. He opens the door, physically lifts me into the

the door ever so gently.

kind of intentionally gentle gesture that

to slam it.

opposite side, slides

until he’s sitting next to me

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

the vehicle

vehicles are nowhere

left Aaron instructs

going?” I ask.

his lips

anything. I promised. Hoping he’d save

dad.

going wherever he wants to go and not asking too many questions.

been avoided,” he says, “If you’d

me.”

it’s my turn to make a face. I stare at

You’re serious.”

course, I

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

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