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.

step aside so she can walk into

another look of

the sight of more dead

And Lillian

shaking her head sadly. “And why would anyone want to kill

the words

anything to save her from the

then something catches her eye

up the framed photo Lillian put up of me holding Ethan

immediately, tears stream down her face. “Aaron, he was so small, and so

and she looks up sharply. “Our son,

she notices the door to the nursery

slower pace, stopping in the doorway as she stands in the middle

into the crib

face, and scents her son

love

and I can see the truth dawning on her

because what else is there