Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 276

I burst into the room and Karolina looks up at me with wide, startled eyes.

There’s a garden hose filling a large plastic tub, and Aaron is chained to a chair balanced precariously on the edge. One slight tip in the wrong direction and Aaron goes under, unable to save himself from drowning in the water.

wwwwww

Aaron stares at me surprised and desperate with longing.

“Aaron!” I lunge forward, but someone catches my arm and tugs me back again.

I turn in confusion, thinking James is holding me back for some reason, but I find Ryker standing there holding me, while James is crumpled unconscious on the ground a few steps behind me.

At least I hope he’s only unconscious.

I was so focused on Aaron, I didn’t even realize Ryker had arrived and come up behind us, let alone got the jump on James.

“Let me go!” I shout angrily, tugging on my arm.

“Now, Leah,” Ryker says in an admonishing voice. “I believe I told you what would happen if you went after my mate.”

not going after your mate,” I tell him furiously,

his hold. “I’m trying

some unfortunate

“You made it clear you weren’t willing to help me, and I told you to stay out of things. Why

narrows on Karolina in

are that bad

a set of rules or traditions to me. They are in my blood, set into my bones. I told you I wouldn’t help you, but I also told you

don’t care what you say, and I don’t care if you’re my mate. I’m doing what’s right for our species, even if you’re too far

so that he tips back and lands in the

I scream, finally able to break free of

you don’t,” she says, shoving me back again. “Aaron is dead, and those Alpha powers are going

and bare my fangs, even as my

spring forward, planning to shred Karolina into tiny, bl oody pieces, when

All of it!” Ryker yells, and he seems to be talking

turn on me, but

the chair and the chains, it’ll be awkward and

the whole thing tumbling over sideways. A mini wave of water splashes out and

scramble around the tub, shoving it