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.”

after your mate,” I

“I’m

my dear Karolina might get caught up in some unfortunate conflict,”

own battles, Ryker!” Karolina says furiously. “You made it clear you weren’t willing to help me, and I told you to stay out of things. Why did you come

gaze narrows on Karolina

that bad between

of rules or traditions to me. They are in my blood, set into my bones. I told you

say, and I don’t care if you’re my mate.

so that he tips back and

to break

she says, shoving me back again. “Aaron is dead, and those Alpha powers are

fangs, even as my claws spring out

into tiny, bl oody pieces, when

of it!” Ryker yells, and he seems to

avoid Karolina-who tries to turn on me, but is

out, but between the chair and

of the tub and send the whole thing tumbling over sideways. A mini wave of water splashes out and rolls into

around the tub, shoving