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

matters of treachery or broken

over to

anyway.

result I was hoping for but I’ve bought my father

that has to count for

can say for

out of the building to the car. He opens the door,

ever so

the kind of intentionally gentle gesture

wants to slam it.

opposite side, slides across

sitting next to me and then

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

the vehicle with me.

two other vehicles are

Aaron instructs the

are we going?” I

his lips bemusedly.

I promised. Hoping he’d save my

dad.

wherever he wants to go and not asking too many

avoided,” he

me.”

a face. I stare at him

“Oh. You’re

course, I

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she-wolf and rubs it in my face. The man who locks. me in a room with no food for a week. The man who set me up to be convicted of

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