Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 170

I wake up in the huge king-sized bed of the Rathborn apartment in the Roberts Corp building, and I’m immediately assaulted with the scent of my mate’s arousal all over the sheets.

Sonofabitch

I’m instantly hard, despite how s hit ty I feel.

I roll out of bed, frustrated from both getting jumped and almost killed last night, and infuriated at the lust surging hard through my system from the simple fading scent of my aroused mate in the blankets.

I stagger into the bathroom and get the shower running from multiple jets, even more annoyed at myself as I remember how I modeled this bathroom and the shower in particular after the one at the hotel, where Leah had put on an erotic, decadent display for me, and I’d nearly lost it. Almost smashed my way into that shower and claimed her as my mate right then and there.

I wonder now, if I had given into those base, animal instincts that night, would things have turned out the way they had?

In the shower, I jer k myself off, mostly in anger and frustration, but it doesn’t do anything to make me feel any better.

I’d never considered coming to California dangerous before last night.

Who the he ll had thought they could kil l me and steal my Alpha abilities like that?

Had it just been some random rogue wolf?

the same person-or people-who’d been trying to k ill me for months now, starting way back when Leah

the reason I can’t be around Leah-my mate-besides all

the crosshairs-or worse, used against me-makes both me and my wolf feel the sort of unhinged that is a slippery slope into completely losing

and my wolf in check because we’re staying

hair-trigger. I’m more volatile

let this happen to me in my

what it did to

was why I was

But Leah…

even know when exactly

don’t know how to live without her, even if we have to

better off living in the

where I can hear or scent

to get to the bottom of who is out to get

strong suspicion it’s someone on the Council, either an official plot to get rid of me, or

alone, I’m not sure.

packs,

want right now in my