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.

word to Aaron, I drop the blanket aside and then

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

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

when I reach the gate, that’s where the

this was where my son was put into some

of tracking his scent any further, but somehow, I will find

never been more determined to do anything in my entire

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

the SUV, talking to James

relieved when I come bounding back up and shift

“Did

he asks me, a note of hope

don’t answer, instead I stalk forward and shove

Hard

scream at him, shoving

looks both resigned and devastated, not even fighting back,

entire lives and you never stop to think if you should ask them what they want,

is heaving and tears are streaming

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

I scream even louder. “You selfish

at him, and finally, his temper snaps as he catches my

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

I lied.