Bad Love: An Alpha's Regret (Leah and Aaron) novel Chapter 84

Chapter 84 

My stomach pitches into my throat and I run to the sink. 

I’ve had a protein bar and a bottle of water- I vomit them up violently. 

Adam comes and holds back my hair. 

I run the water and rinse my mo uth. 

My mou th is salivating and the flood of adrenaline makes it hard to breathe. This is NOT the news I was expecting. 

“I don’t understand. I’ve been trying to play it cool, but come on…I was tortured in that Grove and I felt the power of my lineage come into me. What good is being an Alpha if I’m just going to d ie, and now, what!? More quickly?” 

push out of his arms and stalk around the lab. I have to keep moving. This anxious energy is burning through my system and I want to cry and scream. 

It’s all so unfair. 

For a few days, I dared to dream. 

That I was cured. 

That I wasn’t a pawn. 

That I could wield power and control over my future and 

family. 

But that was all delusional it seems. 

“I’m running tests, Leah. I’m trying. Believe me.” 

He looks gutted. 

drag my hair back and twist it into a messy bun. “I know, Adam. I appreciate everything you’re doing, truly.” 

He crosses back to a computer and points to the screen. I see a series of DNA genes, the results of the electrophoresis he 

ran earlier in the week. but I don’t know what the numbers 

actually mean. 

“I think the issue lies with your wolf genetics. You have all the markers, Leah. But there is something preventing your 

true side from manifesting. And whatever that element is, it’s attacking your own body too. It’s almost like some sort of 

autoimmune disease.” 

He may as well be speaking ancient Greek. 

I pace back and forth. 

“So this is it!? I just get my affairs in order, huh?” 

“You still have some time,” he says. 

“How long?” 

“It’s hard to say,” he says honestly. 

My mind whirls. 

My eyes pri ck with the burn of unshed tears. “I really thought…. 

Adam…” 

“I know,” he says quietly. “Look, there are still treatments. We can fight this. We won’t give up.” He points to the refrigerator at the opposite side of the room. “The chemo treatments are here. You can begin them today.” 

I put my hand to my head because I feel lightheaded. 

All at once, Adam’s arm is around me. 

He carries me to the nearest hospital bed and sets me on 

the mattress, then he props up the bed so I’m sitting mostly upright. “Just take a minute, Leah. Breathe.” 

He leans over me and I’m hit with the smell of his cologne or 

maybe it’s his aftershave. The smell makes me gag and I wretch again. 

He lunges to the side for a waste basket. 

I gag and heave, but thankfully my stomach is empty. 

“What happened?” he asks. 

I wrinkle my nose. “I don’t know. Something about your cologne-no offense.” 

He laughs. Then quickly sobers. 

He runs back to the table and pulls a vial of my blood from a 

centrifuge. 

“Uh, Adam…what are you doing?” 

He doesn’t answer and that makes my blood pressure spike.