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 blanket

around, immediately picking up the newly familiar scent and

out to me in confusion as I streak past him, tracking the fading scent

race down the mountain, but when I reach

son was put into some kind of vehicle and driven

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

to do anything

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

there, standing outside near the SUV, talking to James about taking care

I come bounding

“Did

a note of hope in his

answer, instead I stalk forward and shove him

Hard

scream at

both resigned and devastated, not even fighting back,

always think you know better. You walk around making all these decisions for everyone else 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 got us, Aaron? Huh? Our

is heaving and tears are streaming

unflinching in the face of my tirade, when all

louder. “You selfish as

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

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

I lied.