Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 259

It’s not until we roll into the wide, circular driveway that it

finally hits me.

“Oh my god!” I gasp, my hand flying over to clamp on James’s

forearm.

“What’s wrong?” James asks with wide eyes, his head. snapping around as if looking for a threat.

“When Aaron died, where did his Alpha powers go? Not just the Rathborn powers, but for all three Alphas?” I demand.

James opens his mouth, but then seems to realize he doesn’t have an answer. “I don’t know.”

“You don’t think-” My heart seizes like I’ve been shocked with

a livewire. “Ethan.”

James’s expression immediately drops into one of dread. “He was fine when I left him-”

I don’t even bother to wait for James to finish.

If Alpha powers aren’t purposefully deemed an heir–like my father did with me by having Adam inject me with my father’s

blood–or they’re not intercepted by another powerful Alpha

in combat, and again with blood–like Aaron did when he took

powers the night Liam killed

go to the next in the bloodline.

in this case is my

then realize I don’t even

him in

housekeepers is passing by, and I grab at her like I’m

is Ethan?” I demand breathlessly.

crib, napping,” she replies in wary confusion.

let her go and run for the

an apology and some kind of explanation to the

he

only crib I remember seeing was in

already prepared for the

that’s happened–after losing Aaron to the

bond–I’m expecting another

his crib, right where the housekeeper said he

would be.

And he’s fine.

be staring up at the colorful mobile someone has hung with little wolf, moon

then my knees give out so that I end up kneeling next to the crib, my brow pressed into the cool wood as I watch

My whole world.

last piece

:

okay, thank God,” James says from just above me, and

he was

on my shoulder and so I lean

do without him?” I whisper, and !