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

traditions, who are we as a species? In the

is chaos,

be mates, it is not exactly a happy occurrence

that, Ryker,” I murmur, and I actually

1. it.

who finds something amazing like the relationship Aaron and I had, there are 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

Ryker and Karolina, and I can only imagine how difficult

even like you, let alone love you, or break the

wolves get second chance mates.

happening, but I’ve never met anyone in

been

Ryker says, clearly

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

stop dead in my tracks

you know?” 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

to

the

which puts an end to my question about

mind–reading.

Maybe he just forgot with everything else going on around us.

main priority was keeping Ethan safe by keeping him a secret

know everything I need you

the wrong hands–if it hasn’t already–and I

had some suspicions that

before Tobin’s death–that the