Bad Love An Alpha’s Regret

Chapter 102

I plaster on my most gracious smile. “Honored members of the

Council, welcome!”

I step forward and shake hands in the order that they position. themselves and pray I’m not committing some terrible faux pas by not starting with Petyr or Aleksei. But they are to the back of the others, so if I bypass everyone else…

Aaron and Liam flank me and make their own hel los.

Karolina grips my hand hard. I lock eyes with her and wonder what it is she is trying to convey. A warning perhaps?

“There is food spread throughout the main floor and

additional buffet tables outside. Please. Eat. Have a drink.”

the Old World

detail. There’s a preternatural stillness to him that gives off a different energy than Karolina or even Tobin-and he’s probably the

ever come across.

tawny. Aaron angles so he

to protect me.

so ready to fight. Relax, Alpha Rathborn. We come here

easily. “Of course.” He glances at

you like to entertain our guests,

how he’s handling this.

in check, that he’d be speaking on

of those things. He’s deferring to me.

bring our guests into the dining room.” I

“Liam, perhaps you can ask any of our packmates to

and moves

nobody wrecked the place in

I was upstairs.

the center of the

allow some of our pack to show their respects-and many do.