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

wheel around, immediately picking up the newly familiar scent and following it out

to me in confusion as I streak

when I reach the gate, that’s where

where my son was put

scent

determined to do anything in my

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

near the SUV, talking to James about taking care

when I come

“Did

anything?” he asks me, a note of hope in his

stalk

Hard

scream at him, shoving him

and devastated, not even fighting back, and for some

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 son has been taken and it’s

is heaving and tears are streaming

unflinching in the face of my tirade, when all I want is some kind of reaction out of

louder. “You

finally, his temper snaps as he catches my wrist in a

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.

I lied.