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.

act that Aaron has committed is an

at the

One of the men pulls a tab

it lights instantly.

order. Then I

at the back of the warehouse and wait for the flames

then flee out the back as they engulf the

this building

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6 Months later

cool. It carries the scent

doesn’t make sense.

–

barely

background. Classical music,

Beethoven.

up slowly.

My muscles ache with an odd discomfort that

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colt new to walking. My head is heavy

stand I almost

one foot

balcony and door is partly open, letting in the cold-and snow. The flakes scatter on the carpet before

feet are bare and the contrast of cold and

the French doors and step out. The sun

wind and snow b low. His back is

those strong

turns slowly, sensing my presence. “It’s about time

stalks toward me.

really long. I’m draped in

my face and

as one

into the air.

past me

“A-aron?”

I try to clear my

bedroom. I’m in his