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 Roberts Alpha powers the night Liam killed

to the next in the bloodline.

is my baby son,

and then realize I don’t

to start looking for him in this giant mansion.

by, and I grab at her like I’m a

Ethan?” I

his crib, napping,” she replies in wary confusion.

for the door as James

tossing an apology and some kind of explanation to the

as he goes by.

seeing was in Aaron’s bedroom,

already prepared for the

happened–after losing Aaron

expecting another

right where the

would be.

And he’s fine.

and kicking his legs–not napping, but also content to be staring up at the colorful mobile someone has hung with little wolf, moon and star shapes

so that I end up kneeling next to the crib, my brow

My whole world.

last piece of

:

okay, thank God,” James says from

he was

on my shoulder and so I

going to do without him?”