Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 230

AARON

The slaug hter I find at the cabin is worse than the carnage I left behind at the factory where we fought Tobin and his men.

All of the guys I left behind to protect the property are dead.

Every single one of them.

Starting with the guys manning the gate and outer perimeter, all the way up the mountain to the cabin itself.

I can’t even imagine the number of wolves it must have taken to overwhelm and defeat my most highly-trained men.

My heart feels like it’s being slowly torn out of my chest as I desperately run into the cabin, only to find more of the same.

My dead men, and their last line of defense.

Worse, Lillian wasn’t spared.

I know in my heart she would have done everything to protect Ethan right up to her last dying breath.

I st agger a little as I walk through the cabin

I don’t know if I can bring myself to walk into Ethan’s nursery.

know if I

in his crib, it

in the world will be able to pull me back from

I have to know, so I force my legs to carry me the rest of the way until I’m

enough, the room is pristine and completely untouched, as if the tide of violence

there’s no sign of blood or other trauma left

I start noticing

baby bag, car capsule, teddies, a blanket that’s usually on

out into the main room of the cabin, forcing myself to ignore the carnage

and still stored in the fridge, some of his spare bottles and the tin of baby formula

sparks to life inside me, and my relief is so acute, I have to drop

bunch of stuff with the

least now I know he’s not dead, and maybe they

him back as soon as possible, I know I have to tell Leah as

told her sooner, I regret that I

none of this would’ve

as bait today at the factory instead of my mate, and

Tobin somehow had something to do with Ethan’s abduction. That he thought I would be dead by now, and had organized to have my son snat ched at the very same

But to what end?

would he have instructed his men to

like the obvious places to start, and I vow I’m going to rip apart every possible location from foundations to ceilings until I’ve found my

worried

have to appeal to them-even hand myself over for crimes I didn’t commit-and it helps me find Ethan that