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

the next in the bloodline.

is my baby

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

to start looking for him in this giant

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

Ethan?” I demand

in his crib, napping,” she

her go and run for the door as

apology and some kind

as he

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

already

that’s happened–after losing Aaron to

bond–I’m expecting

lying in his crib, right where

would be.

And he’s fine.

at the colorful mobile someone

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

My whole world.

piece

:

James says from just

he was

on my shoulder and so I lean into his leg.

are we going to do without him?”