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

there is chaos, and I

might be mates, it is not exactly a happy occurrence for either of us.”

I murmur,

1. it.

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

that is what’s happened for Ryker and Karolina, and I

a mate who will never understand you, maybe never even like you, let alone love you, or break the bond and risk never having another

many wolves get

of it happening, but I’ve never

been blessed

clearly ready to change the

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

dead in my tracks

did 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

to

on the problem a few

end to

mind–reading.

mentioned it. Maybe he just

main priority was keeping Ethan safe by keeping him a secret

you know everything I need you to know. That we

falls into the wrong hands–if it hasn’t already–and I have absolutely no

had some suspicions that

death–that the Council were