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.

mingle,” Samsen says. He’s big and tawny. Aaron angles so he is in front of me. Liam

to protect me.

at this wolf! Always so ready to fight. Relax,

easily. “Of course.” He glances at

to entertain

handling this. Part of

be resorting to violence, and part of me worried if he did keep his temper in check, that he’d be speaking on

of those things. He’s deferring to me.

bring our guests into the dining room.” I

perhaps you can ask any of our packmates to clear that area so we

and

nobody wrecked

I was upstairs.

group through the center of the main hall,

at the very least to allow some of our pack to show

the main stairwell that would take us

into the corridor that