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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of the council members appreciated my display of

the time of the Elders, matters of treachery or broken laws would be handled internally.

wolf over to

anyway.

was hoping for

to count for

more than I can say for

my arm and brings me out of the building to the car. He opens the door, physically lifts me into the backseat and fastens

door ever so gently.

gentle gesture that lets

wants to

the opposite side, slides across

until he’s sitting next to me and then

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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.

two other vehicles are nowhere to

instructs the driver

going?”

purses his lips bemusedly.

I’d do anything. I

dad.

guess that extends to going wherever he wants to go and not asking too

could have been avoided,” he says,

me.”

it’s my turn to make a face. I

You’re

I

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who set me up to be convicted of embezzling-only to pin it on my father.” I scoff. “You do realize, if my father does have to