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

we as a

chaos, and I think your

So yes, while we might be mates, it is

I murmur, and I actually

1. it.

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 never be able to get

Ryker and Karolina, and I can only imagine how difficult it

never even like you, let alone love you, or break the bond and risk never having another mate in your life

get

happening, but I’ve

who has been blessed like

Luna,” Ryker says, clearly

lost Aaron, you’ve come to ask my help in tracking down the missing Al technology your father and brother were

stop dead in my

know?” I demand, wondering–not for the first time–if Ryker has the ability to straight up

able to do.

on the

an end to my question about

mind–reading.

wondering why Aaron never mentioned it. Maybe he just forgot with

his main priority was keeping Ethan safe by keeping

I need you to know.

it before it falls into the wrong hands–if it hasn’t already–and I have absolutely no idea where it could be.”

“Aaron had

confirmed before Tobin’s death–that the