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.

I drop

familiar scent

confusion as I streak past him, tracking the fading scent

but when I reach the gate,

where my son was put into some kind of vehicle and

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

determined to do

coalesce into something palpable sends me back up the mountain

standing outside near the SUV, talking to James about

I come bounding back up

“Did

find anything?” he asks me, a note of hope

I stalk forward and shove

Hard

you? I scream at him, shoving him

devastated, not even fighting back, and

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 tears

face of my tirade, when all I want is some

“You selfish as shole! Don’t you

him, and finally, his temper snaps as

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

I lied.