Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 102

I plaster on my most gracious smile. “Honored members of the

Council, welcome!”

I step forward and shake hands in the order that they position. themselves and pray I’m not committing some terrible faux pas by not starting with Petyr or Aleksei. But they are to the back of the others, so if I bypass everyone else…

Aaron and Liam flank me and make their own hel los.

Karolina grips my hand hard. I lock eyes with her and wonder what it is she is trying to convey. A warning perhaps?

“There is food spread throughout the main floor and

additional buffet tables outside. Please. Eat. Have a drink.”

Elder Aleksei comes from the Old World and he looks it. He

wears a suit but no tie. His silver hair is styled back. His eyes are light and taking in every detail. There’s a preternatural stillness to him that gives off a different energy than Karolina or even Tobin-and he’s probably the most intense wolf I’ve

ever come across.

big and tawny. Aaron angles so

protect

so ready to fight. Relax,

He glances at me. “Where

like to entertain our guests,

this. Part of

he did keep his temper in check, that he’d be speaking on my behalf

Aaron isn’t doing any of those things. He’s deferring to me.

guests into the dining room.” I turn to my

“Liam, perhaps you can ask any of our packmates to clear that area so we might speak more

and

have to hope nobody wrecked the place in

I was upstairs.

the center of the

very least to allow some of our pack to show their respects-and many

we reach the main stairwell that

the corridor