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

next

this case is my

rush into the house, and then realize I don’t even know

him in

housekeepers is passing by, and I grab at

is Ethan?” I demand

crib, napping,” she

go and run for the door as James finally catches

tossing an apology and some kind

as he goes

crib I remember seeing was in Aaron’s bedroom, so that’s where

already

losing Aaron

expecting another blow.

crib, right where the housekeeper said

would be.

And he’s fine.

babbling and drooling and kicking his legs–not napping, but also content to be staring up at the colorful mobile someone has hung with

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

My whole world.

last piece of

:

God,” James says from just above me, and

even realize he was there.

a hand on my shoulder and so I lean into

going to do without him?” I whisper, and !