Bad Love An Alpha’s Regret

LEAH

For a second I think I’m going to pass out.

I get dizzy and I can’t seem to draw a full breath.

This is too much.

It’s too big, too life altering, too shocking.

All these weeks since I woke up and started grieving my son, my baby-has been alive this whole time, and Aaron has been hiding him.

I think I should have an opinion about that.

I think I’m so angry about that, my fury has become this huge, incomprehensible thing, so that I can’t even deal with it right now.

The one fact my brain latches onto is the last thing Aaron said.

Someone had kidnapped my son

I lift the blanket one more time and draw in the soft, new scent of my baby into my lungs and into my very essence.

My wolf recognizes him on a primal level, and it sends her into a frenzy

We have to find him.

Now.

saying a word to Aaron, I drop the

immediately picking up the newly familiar scent and following it out of

I streak past him, tracking the fading

mountain, but when I reach

this was where my son was put into some kind of vehicle and

got no way of tracking his scent any further, but somehow, I

to do

that’s now starting to coalesce into something palpable sends me back up the mountain to the

standing outside near the SUV, talking to James about taking

I come bounding

“Did

me, a note of hope in

stalk forward and shove him in

Hard

you? I scream at him, shoving

devastated, not even fighting back, and for some reason

stop to think if you should ask them what they want, or what they think is good for them. And where has that got us, Aaron? Huh?

chest is heaving and tears are

my tirade, when all

“You selfish as

slash my claws at him, and finally, his temper snaps as he catches my wrist in

wolf. “Don’t you dare accuse me of not caring, Leah. I never wanted to hide Ethan from you. But you were in a coma, and you have no idea how close we came to losing him that day when there was an attack on the hospital. I did what I had to in order to protect him. And protect you. I had to spend months thinking you were never going to wake up. And then when you did, our enemies were closing in tighter than ever. Don’t you get it? I don’t care about myself or having the power of three Alphas. You and Ethan are all that matter. And if

I lied.