Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 103

“Oh dear.” I laugh lightly, as if he’s mistaken. “I guess we’ll need to change cleaning companies.”

It’s a lame attempt at a joke.

Liam chuckles-bless him.

Tobin just blinks at me.

Inside, I’m dying.

Does Tobin mean me? Or is he sniffing out Marla. Upstairs. In

a trunk???

The other wolves all pause and look at us questioningly.

Aaron drops a hand on Tobin’s shoulder. “We slaughtered two

steers for the event, and my chef roasted a whole p ig. Always thinking with your gut, huh?”

He doesn’t rescind his comment. Just looks at me, then up the

stairs, then back at me again.

Sh it.

“It’s this way,” I say.

The others continue walking and the moment Tobin falls into step, I move to catch up to Karolina, not wanting to risk any more interactions with Tobin or him sniffing out any more information about me-or any dead bodies on our property.

Once within the dining room, the Elders position themselves at the long table.

Liam has instructed some of his wolves to move the serving.

platters and dishes to the opposite end to allow everyone to

sit comfortably.

Aleksei sits at the head of the table. Samsen and Petyr on

either side of him.

Karolina sits next, on the far side, so her back faces the wall.

Tobin remains standing.

guides him in and sits next to him.

other side by

the group

Aaron.

Thank goodness.

can feel myself sweating.

nothing wrong, but the presence of so many

that

begins. “You accrued

Pack Leithrow when Alpha Brian Clemson né Leithrow attacked your Luna in the Grove on the night of the

nods. “That

Aaron absorbed

too busy trying not to d ie as I absorbed my father’s lineage to really

else was going

strong is Aaron that he could absorb power like that and barely flinch? I’d been thrashing and convulsing and on the verge of biting off my own tongue. I thought my bones. were going to break from the force

didn’t complain. Not

bore the transition of power and when it was all over, he

of that Grove and took care of

hurting and exhausted

Da mn.

squeezes my hand for a

me and I wonder if this is why he didn’t make such a big deal about letting me stay

he didn’t insist on being in the same room. Because he

off taking control of a whole

week for you,” I

a few lips twitch. Karolina

known. He should’ve told me. Not

that much,

gives the slightest shrug.

have my

I should’ve known.

is a basic pack principle in the succession

Alpha wills their strength to the

with blood or a bit of hair, some ‘marker’ so the power flows into that specific

idea. of how my dad managed to leave his powers to me. And

course of that night, it became

there was another note.

don’t know much about the details. surrounding his death or how it played out with Liam or the other wolves in this community.

were kids to follow in my father’s footsteps and become the next

his own life, anyone could have challenged him. And that’s what transpired with Aaron in the Grove. Brian attacked me…and Aaron

movie my dad made me watch with

Highlander. The premise was that these immortals. had to fight and ki ll each other to absorb their