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.

to one of the other girls,

jacket and tugs me into one of the private

what it looks like to anyone paying

getting one of the extra services they offer

don’t care what other people think, and my bad-boy reputation has served me

I hand over a f at wad of hundred dollar bills that she promptly tucks

hasn’t been here

arch a brow at

“That’s it?”

say? I can’t tell you anything if he

you know why he hasn’t been around lately? Is he

from Roberts Corp? I’d heard that Tobin had some business dealings with

crazy fight with the new guy that’s been

“What new guy?”

action beginning to annoy

these days, while I’m in self-imposed exile from my

an accent, Tattoos. And a weird name like

“Ryker?” I ask incredulously.

this time I’ve been