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

go to the next in the

case is my baby

then realize I don’t even know

to start looking for him in

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

Ethan?” I

she replies in wary confusion.

for the

an apology and some kind of explanation

he

was in Aaron’s

already prepared

losing Aaron to

bond–I’m expecting

right where the housekeeper said he

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

next to the crib,

My whole world.

last piece

:

God,” James says from just above

even realize he

on my shoulder and so I lean into his

to do without him?” I whisper, and