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

But, without traditions, who are we as

is chaos,

be mates, it is not exactly a

Ryker,” I murmur, and

1. it.

couple 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 when they will

what’s happened for Ryker and Karolina, and

alone love you, or break the bond and risk never having another mate in your life again?

get second chance

of it happening, but I’ve never met anyone in real

who has been blessed like that.

Ryker says, clearly

tracking down the missing Al technology your father and brother

my

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

to do.

brought me in on the problem

which puts an end to

mind–reading.

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

Ethan safe by keeping him

you know everything I need

falls into the wrong hands–if it

“Aaron had some suspicions that

death–that the Council