Bad Love An Alpha’s Regret

Chapter 151

JAMES

“SONOFABITCH!!!”

Aaron is convulsing.

His arms and legs are flailing and for a 6’4″ beast of man, he can do a lot of damage. Our men can handle it.

His wife…

Gods.

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Leah’s eyes are open and unseeing. Aaron has her hand clasped in his and I wonder if they walk the same space or if that peace beyond life is as simple as one breath to the next.

Nothing to mourn or hope for.

Just silence and darkness.

One thing’s for sure… if he follows her, it’ll cause chaos.

“Get your ass back here, bro,” I growl, and because I’m so pi ssed that he could be so f**king reckless, I slap his face to try and anger him back to his senses.

It do

Our men are anxious and gaping at me. They’ve never lost an Alpha. Not in battle and not even in succession. Aaron’s grandfather transferred the role to him at an early age. Pack Rathborn has been beneath Aaron’s control for two decades.

There are police sirens outside and that’s going to be a mess to deal with.

“Get them up and out the back.”

There are boats outside and while that might cause a whole shitstorm of trouble-the whole evading police and fleeing a crime scene variety of charges-we can’t stick around and wait for my Alpha to do…whatever it is he’s trying to do.

I think back long and hard on every text of our Archives I’ve

ever read.

Wolves have been transitioned. Wolves have been ‘saved’ by a mating bond.

But no wolf in existence has been mated to a dead human

and survived it.

Aaron has committed

at the consequences.

of the men pulls

it lights instantly.

Then I light

back of the warehouse and wait for the

then flee out the back as they engulf

building and all evidence.

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6 Months later

is cool. It carries the

that doesn’t

–

barely

music in the background. Classical music, Für

Beethoven.

sit up

with an odd discomfort that doesn’t hurt, per say, but

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My head is heavy and

I almost fall

get moving, one foot in front of the other.

is partly open, letting in the cold-and snow. The flakes

contrast of cold and warm

doors and step out. The sun is shining even

wind and snow b low. His back

know those strong shoulders

presence. “It’s about time you woke up.”

toward me.

unbound. It’s long. Like really long. I’m draped in

face and

touch is as brief as one

melting into the

past me back inside.

“A-aron?”

is raspy and I try to

near the door of his bedroom. I’m