Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 265

I’m grateful for James’s solid, silent support next to me.

Honesty, I don’t know how I would be getting through these agonizing days without him.

“Aaron died,” I say, cutting my gaze away from Emily.

The words are physically painful to say, like they’re being wrenched out of my chest.

“We had no choice but to break our mating bond after the Council sentenced Aaron to death for treason. I had to survive

for our son, Ethan.”

Emily gasps, and I can’t help but look back at her.

“Aaron has a son?”

“That’s right, Emily,” James puts in with fondness in his voice.

“You’re an aunt. You’re going to love Ethan when you meet

him.”

“Oh my god,” Emily whispers, seeming to not know what to do

with this information.

then apparently she decides.

“You should have died, and Aaron should have

He had the power of three Alphas, and the Council was scared about what he planned to do with that power. They needed an excuse to stop him, and they found it. Ethan would have been an orphan if things had played out that way. Is that what you want for your

the good sense to look

is the one who

Both Alpha Roberts

to the grave with them. So,

for Leah, you might never have

ever going to get any gratitude for getting her out of the gilded prison my father had been keeping her in.

and that asshole Liam are dead?” Emily says. “Well, at least

roll my eyes.

going to be the kind of handful I don’t even

she’s alive, and I

I say. “I want to be there

next feed.”

nods and then motions to

she says anxiously, as if

believe it.

just walk away, leaving her to the same isolated, lonely fate my father and brother

really doesn’t think highly of me at all.

considering what she’s endured at

you’re really leaving,” James says gently, but then sends her a quick, cheeky smile. “Unless you

replies adamantly. “Let’s

here.”