Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 279

AARON

All of my senses are on high alert as we leave the house and

hurry down the block to where James parked the SUV.

It’s like I can feel the threat of Vampires dragging over my

skin.

I can’t believe Leah and James risked coming here to rescue

me.

Actually, I can’t believe Karolina was foolish or desperate enough not to be discovered by her fellow Councilmembers stealing all of my Alpha power for herself, that she would risk.

coming into Vampire territory.

This isn’t like some bit of Twilight, with some peaceful co-existence ala the Cullens. We’re sworn enemies, and our species staunchly avoid each other.

We jump into the SUV and Leah insists on driving since she’s in

the best condition out of us all.

James gets into the backseat and immediately shifts to finish healing his head trauma that’d looked really nasty. Probably

Neither me nor Leah say anything as she starts driving, navigating out of the suburban streets to leave the run-down neighborhood and Vampire territory behind us, both of us tool

on edge until we know we’re in safer lands.

those picnic rest stops. There aren’t any other vehicles parked there right now, so the place is

car into a parking space and cuts the

everything okay?” I ask, wondering why she’s stopped so

answer me, but wordlessly climbs

walks around

I climb out and go to

standing there, her head bowed into

shoulders shaking

I say in alarm, quickly stepping in to pull her tightly into my arms.

face into my neck, and my skin

by the heat of

Ethan and I were somehow going to have to live

crying too hard to

that you didn’t survive breaking the mating bond.

and she looks up at me, lashes damp and sparkling with tears, her hair

body aches as I

as she does in this

whispers in

that?”

don’t know,” I tell her, running my hand over her soft, silky curls. “Maybe they knew

we wouldn’t let anything or anyone stand in the way of us being

replies, smiling through her tears. “I would

Nothing in this life or the next can

us apart.”

I

to

longing and love into claiming her mouth beneath

immediately goes pliant against me, and it sends both me

I know, I’ve got her pinned up against the back of the SUV with her legs wrapped around my waist as