Bad Love: An Alpha's Regret (Leah and Aaron) novel Chapter 240

Chapter 240
LEAH
I wake up in Aaron’s huge bed at the Rathborn mansion.
My whole body hurts, but I can feel a new strength to my wolf
She is Alpha now, and it’s like I went from driving a tiny compact sedan to some kind of super powerful truck.
She has powers that are nothing short of amazing and she instinctively knows how to use them.
I’m in awe of her, and once again grateful that I even got to have her, after so many years of thinking I never would have a wolf of my very own, only to discover the travesty of my father binding her when I was young
I can’t believe I’ve regained Alpha powers.
At least this time it didn’t feel like it was going to kill me. It was painful and unpleasant, yes, but not absolutely agonizing.
Except this time, I’m Alpha to a pack I don’t even know, and I have no idea if they’ll even accept me as pack leader.
I sit up and see someone has placed a crib in one corner of the
room
Immediately, I get up and rush over, only to be disappointed when I find it empty.
I hurry out of Aaron’s room and head downstairs.
When I get to the bottom of the steps, I hear the sound of Aaron’s laughter.
It’s a sound I’ve heard rarely-Aaron has always been so serious, not that I can blame him considering how his life unfolded-but I don’t think I’ve ever heard Aaron sound as carefree as he does with whatever he found so funny just now
I follow the sound, until I arrive at the library
I push open the door and walk in to find Aaron lying on his back on the soft rug in front of the hearth.
There’s a cheery fire burning, and Aaron has his shirt off.
Ethan is lying on his stomach in the middle of Aaron’s chest, waving his arms and pumping his legs excitedly as if he wants to crawl all over his father, but hasn’t quite figured out the coordination to manage it yet. Ethan is cooing and drooling all over Aaron, but my mate doesn’t seem to mind one bit.
In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever seen Aaron so happy and relaxed.
Tears sting my eyes, and next thing I know, they’re streaming down my face.
I don’t think I’ve ever been happier than I am in this moment, seeing how much my mate loves his son, seeing how gentle and caring
he is.
Maybe in my wildest dreams, I envisaged moments like this.
But I never thought I’d see the
come true
Aaron looks over then and sees me, immediately becoming concerned because I’m standing there crying like an idiot
“Leah! What’s wrong?” He catches Ethan securely against his chest and rolls to his feet, before hurrying over to me.
He manages to hold Ethan with one arm and pull me into a hug with the other arm
“Did something happen to you? I thought you were okay after the transfer of Havelock Alpha powers–”
“I’m fine,” I managed to s ob out. “I just saw you there with Ethan and it made me so happy… I never thought I would get this. I never
thought you would love me, or I would get to see our son born, let alone see what a good father you are.”
Then I can’t say anything else because I’m crying too hard.
Aaron holds me tighter, and I’ve never felt anything more wonderful than being held in his arms with our son securely between us.
“I love you,” Aaron murmurs to me, and I swear I fall for him all over again while my wolf practically swoons.
“I love you, too,” I tell him, feeling like I’m in some sort of miraculous dream.
Except it’s all real, and I feel grounded in a way I never have before.
“Why don’t you come and sit with us for a while?” Aaron says, leading ine over to the plush rug where he’d been lying with Ethan.
I go over and sit.
Aaron hands me Ethan, and then adds some more wood to the fire, keeping the chill of another snowy Montana day out of the room.
“Ethan has been learning to roll over,” Aaron tells me once he returns to the rug and reclines next to me.
I set Ethan on the ground, and immediately he rolls onto his stomach.
I laugh at the simple sight, especially with how pleased Ethan seems with himself.
He’s using his chubby little fists to
sto pull at the soft tufts woven into the rug
After a while, he seems to get bored of that and then tries to get his knees underneath him, an adorable look of baby-concentration on his face, as if he’s ready to go out and conquer the world.
“Most of the parenting books I’ve read said he won’t crawl until he’s older than six months, maybe not even until he’s ten or twelve months,” Aaron says to me “But I think it’ll be earlier than that. Look at him, he’s determined to get up and go.”
I turn to look at Aaron incredulously. “You read parenting books?”
Aaron sends me a lightly insulted look, but he’s also amused.
“Of course I read parenting books. How else can I make sure I’m the best father out there?”
I roll my eyes as I snort a laugh
Trust Aaron to make it into some kind of competition.
I think I could sit here and watch Ethan all day, but eventually he starts getting fussy and grumpy.
Aaron expertly picks him up and shushes him, while getting out his phone to call the other pack nanny, Tara.
“Ethan is due for a bottle and a nap,” Aaron tells me once he’s off the phone again. “I’ll have Tara bring his bottle so you can feed him, but then Tara can take him for a nap. We need to talk.”
Aaron’s right.
I do want to be able to feed and tend to my own baby, but watching Aaron so easily and naturally be with Ethan is making me aware of how much I don’t know about caring for my son.
I have a bit of catching up to do.
Part of me worries I won’t be as good at being a mom as Aaron clearly is at being a dad.
But I don’t say any of this, and soon Tara arrives with the bottle.
Aaron shows me how to hold both Ethan and the bottle, and soon my baby is happily slurping down his milk, relaxed in my arms.
My heart feels full to bursting
Eventually, however, he finishes the bottle and looks like he’s half asleep.
Aaron gently takes Ethan and props him up on his own shoulder. Ethan lets out a burp and fusses for a second, but by the time Tara returns to take him for a nap, he’s settled back down.
Once they’re gone, I turn to Aaron, expecting him to want to start talking about everything that happened and where that’s left us. Especially me unexpectedly ending up with the Havelock Alpha powers.
But I don’t even get one word out before Aaron yanks me into him and starts hungrily kissing