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

familiar scent

I streak past him, tracking the

mountain, but when I reach the gate, that’s where the scent trail

son was put into some kind

scent any further,

to do anything in my entire

to coalesce into something palpable sends me back

the SUV, talking to James

I come bounding back up and

“Did

he asks me, a note of hope in

stalk forward and shove

Hard

could you? I scream at

resigned and devastated, not even fighting back, and for some reason

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

heaving and tears are

tirade, when all I want is some kind of reaction out of

I scream even louder. “You selfish as shole!

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

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

I lied.