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

my infant son in his crib, it will

broken, and nothing in the world will be able to pull me back from

to carry me the rest of the way until I’m

as if the

sign of blood or other trauma left

noticing a few

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

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 are gone, along with

to life inside me, and my relief is so acute, I have to drop to my knees right there

they also took a whole bunch of stuff

better or easier, but at least now I know he’s not dead, and

our missing son and the immediate need to get him back as soon as

should have told her sooner, I regret that I

this would’ve happened

maybe Tobin would have used Ethan as bait today at the factory

Ethan’s abduction. That he thought I would be dead by now, and had organized to have my son snat ched at

But to what end?

have instructed his men to

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

the Council would condone child abduction, no matter how worried they are about me making a play for a seat at their

appeal to them-even hand myself over for crimes I didn’t commit-and it helps