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.

to Aaron, I drop the

the newly familiar scent and

me in confusion as I streak past him, tracking

reach the

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

tracking his scent

been more determined to do

determination and the fury that’s now starting to coalesce into something palpable

SUV, talking to James about

looks relieved when I come bounding back up and shift

“Did

me, a note of

stalk forward and

Hard

I scream at him, shoving

and devastated, not even fighting back, and

that affects their entire lives and you never stop to think if you should ask them what they want, or what they think is good for them. And where has that

heaving and tears

in the face of my tirade, when all I want is some

louder. “You selfish as shole!

slash my claws at him, and finally, his temper snaps

at me, eyes glowing with his 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 you were both made safer by you believing our son was dead-so our enemies could see you grieving and believe the lie as well-then I’m sorry, but I’m not going to apologize for

I lied.