Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 269

At first, I think I can’t have heard that correctly.

“I’m sorry, did you say she’s your mate?” I repeat with a bewildered shake of my head.

I didn’t realize Ryker and Karolina even knew each other.

They certainly haven’t made their relationship public knowledge, and I wonder why that is.

“Yes, it’s true,” Ryker says, going to pour himself a second

drink. “You are surprised. I was also, when I first came to this

country and met her.”

I want to ask so many questions, but I keep my mouth shut.

It’s not really any of my business, and it may not have any bearing on what’s happening within the Council and what happened to Aaron.

Then again, it might have everything to do with it.

“Though we are mated, it has been somewhat contentious,” Ryker continues, and I’m glad he’s giving some explanation, so I’m not left with something else I need to dig into. “I don’t

agree with much of what your Council and Karolina does and believes. They have strayed too far from the Old Ways.

Meanwhile, Karolina believes I am stuck in the past and

the traditions that don’t serve us any longer in this modern

without traditions, who are we as a species? In the

chaos, and I think

that. So yes, while we might be mates, it is not exactly a happy occurrence

Ryker,” I murmur, and I

1. it.

other couples on the opposite end of the spectrum who are enemies or can’t see eye to eye on the important things, and I wonder why the Moon Goddess paired them as mates when

and Karolina, and I can only imagine how

never even like you, let alone love you, or break the

wolves get

happening, but I’ve never met anyone

been

clearly ready to

now that we’ve lost Aaron, you’ve come to ask my help in tracking down the missing

my tracks at his

I demand, wondering–not for the first time–if Ryker has the ability to straight up read people’s minds like it’s rumored the Alphas of the Old

able to do.

on the problem a few weeks

which puts an end to

mind–reading.

wondering why Aaron never mentioned it. Maybe he just forgot with everything else going on around

was keeping Ethan safe by keeping him a secret from

everything I need you to know. That we

to find it before it falls into the wrong hands–if it hasn’t already–and I have absolutely

nods thoughtfully. “Aaron had some

before Tobin’s death–that the Council were