Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 297

LEAH

I hold Ethan closer trying to calm him, but with the feeling of malevolence in the air, I can’t blame my son for the way he’s screaming.

“Evacuate the pack to the emergency bunker,” Aaron tells me in a low voice.

“What’s happening?” I whisper fearfully, even though I doubt he has any more of an idea than I do.

“I’m not sure. It feels like-But it can’t be. It doesn’t make sense,” Aaron replies. “You oversee the evacuation, I need to head down to the front gate. They’re not answering my calls.”

My stomach pitches with anxiety.

If the sentries at the gate aren’t answering Aaron’s calls-maybe because they can’t-then something bad must have happened.

Aaron tugs me in for a quick kiss, and then I turn to James, who is standing alert nearby.

“We need to begin evacuating to the emergency bunker,” I say to

him..

He nods and starts off to do just that, but in that moment,

there’s this loud bang that echoes through the house.

James starts herding freaked out pack members through the house, but I turn and follow Aaron where he’s hurrying toward the front of the mansion and the source of that loud banging noise.

Halfway down the hallway, this dark, icy cold, terrible wave of power washes over me, and my footsteps falter.

Ethan isn’t crying anymore, he’s quietened down to whimpering, his face turned into my chest.

to the wall, keeping an eye on Aaron as he slows and three people

people might not be the right

men and a woman,

got

you doing here?” Aaron demands in a hard voice. “Do you know how many ancient treaties you’ve broken by setting foot on wolf territory? By arriving unannounced at my

and maliciously gleeful at

territory and interfering with things you had

dog nose into,” one of the vampires says in return,

on your territory willingly,” Aaron replies co oly. “I was

the woman says, crossing her arms. “But your mate and her lap

can see the tension running through his shoulders, how he’s on high alert

left as soon as we were able. We didn’t

third vampire says, and my entire body

I know that voice.

But it can’t be.

It doesn’t make sense.

like the military contact Liam-and even 1-spoke to regularly about

weapon.

we started with Liam Roberts,” the

over the AI tech the Roberts pack were designing and building for us,” the vampire finishes, and I can see Aaron trying not to react

surface of his skin, wanting to shift, to

and Liam were working with you?” Aaron

believe

taken in by the lie? Maybe he only told me it was a military contract because he knew I wouldn’t take it

who

things Ryker said, about what Karolina was doing going against

I’m confused and terrified.