Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 176

I drive several hours until I reach the largest town in this area, one the Council members often favor for shopping and dining and various other human pleasures. I head to a private club where only certain people with select invitations and bank accounts that number in the hundreds of millions can gain entrance.

I’ve had a membership for years, but I rarely come here.

It’s a place for vice and sin and the kind of under-the-table business dealings that don’t happen in clean, corporate boardrooms

And it just so happens to be one of Tobin’s favorite haunts.

I pay one of the girls who dances on the entertainment level for information about Tobin’s comings and goings, as well as that of other Council members who come here.

Tonight, however, she’s working behind the bar.

She smiles when she sees me, partly because she knows me being here means a bonus for her. But also because she’s offered herself to me more than once, and hopes one day I’ll take her up on the offer.

But human women don’t interest me.

They can’t compare to my mate,

“The usual?” she asks me, leaning forward so her breasts are in danger of falling from the low-cut top she’s wearing.

says something to one of

the lapel of my jacket and

what it looks like to anyone paying

of the extra

what other people think, and my bad-boy reputation has served me

drops the act, but she’s still all smiles as I hand over a f at wad of hundred dollar bills that she promptly tucks down between

here lately,” she tells

a brow at

“That’s it?”

shrugs. “What do you want me to say? I can’t tell you anything if he hasn’t been

know why he hasn’t been

Tobin had some business dealings with Leah’s father and brother, but never put much stock into

into a crazy fight with the new guy that’s been hanging around,”

“What new guy?”

action

I’m in self-imposed

with an accent, Tattoos.

“Ryker?” I ask incredulously.

this time I’ve been