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

the night Liam killed me–then

to the next in

case is

the house, and then realize

start looking for him in this giant

by, and I grab

Ethan?” I

crib, napping,” she replies in wary confusion.

for the door as James

apology and some kind of explanation to the

as he goes by.

I remember seeing was in Aaron’s

breathless and already prepared for

happened–after losing Aaron to

expecting another

is lying in his crib, right where the housekeeper said he

would be.

And he’s fine.

napping, but also content to be staring up at the colorful mobile someone has hung

so that I end up kneeling next to the crib, my brow pressed into the cool wood as I

My whole world.

last piece

:

from just above me,

realize he was there.

drops a hand on my shoulder and so

to do without him?” I whisper, and