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

another look of

pauses at the sight of more

And Lillian

the Rathborn pack nanny doing here?” she asks, shaking

words are stuck

to save her from the pain

deeply bewildered, but then something catches

and sn atches up the framed photo Lillian put up of me holding Ethan on the day he

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

she looks up sharply. “Our

but then she notices the door to the

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

she reaches into the crib and reverently picks up a softly knitted

face, and

expression is one of love and longing and even deeper

the truth dawning on her features. “This scent is fresh. From just

because what