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 me–then

the next in

is my baby

and then realize I don’t even

for him in this giant mansion.

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

Ethan?” I demand

in his crib, napping,” she replies in

her go and run for the door as

an apology and some kind of explanation

he goes by.

was in Aaron’s bedroom, so

breathless and already prepared for

happened–after losing Aaron

bond–I’m expecting

crib, right where the

would be.

And he’s fine.

his legs–not napping, but also content to be staring up at the colorful mobile

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

My whole world.

last piece

:

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

even realize he was

shoulder and so I lean into his

do without