Bad Love An Alpha’s Regret

Leah hurries toward me, and I can see she’s pale and confused about all the carnage she’s found on this mountain.

The place where I brought her for a romantic getaway when things between us were beginning to change.

The place where she almost died on me the first time, because I had no idea her fragile human body was dying from cancer,

At this point, I’m not even surprised James brought her here, though I do shoot him an angry look, which he shrugs off as if to say it’s my own fault.

He’s probably not wrong.

And maybe this is better.

Maybe by Leah seeing the lengths our enemies are willing to go to in order to strike against me, she’ll better understand why I did what I needed to do.

“Aaron,” she whispers as she stops in front of me. “What happened here?”

“Our enemies attacked,” I said. “Maybe Tobin, because he knew I wouldn’t be here, and wouldn’t be able to stop this from happening”

“Stop what from happening?” Leah asks me in confusion.

aside so she can walk into

another look of confusion, before

the sight of

And Lillian

shaking

the words

to save her from the pain

looks even more deeply bewildered, but then

atches up the framed photo Lillian put up of

immediately, tears stream down her

I reply, and she looks up sharply. “Our

don’t understand…” Leah begins, but then she notices the door to the nursery standing open,

follow her at a slower pace, stopping in the doorway as she stands in the middle of the room and spins in

the crib and reverently

to her face, and scents her son

one of love and longing and

the truth dawning on her

what else is there