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.

so she can walk

another look of confusion,

sight of more dead

And Lillian

here?” she asks, shaking her head sadly. “And why would

can’t answer, the words are stuck

could do anything to save her

even more deeply bewildered, but then something catches her eye on the

framed photo Lillian put up of me holding Ethan on the day he was

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

up sharply. “Our son, Ethan,

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

the doorway as she stands in the middle of the room and spins in

in, she reaches into the crib and reverently picks up a softly

it up to her face, and scents her son

of love and longing and even deeper

can see the truth dawning on her features. “This scent

I reply, because what