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.”

comes from the Old World and he looks it. He

taking in every detail. There’s a preternatural stillness to him that gives off a different

ever come across.

here to mingle,” Samsen says. He’s big and tawny. Aaron angles

protect

ready to fight. Relax, Alpha Rathborn. We come here to talk.”

“Of course.” He glances

you like to entertain

handling this.

to violence, and part of me worried if he did keep his temper in check, that he’d be speaking on my

isn’t doing any of those things. He’s deferring

our guests into the dining room.” I turn to my

any of our packmates to clear

and moves

to hope nobody wrecked the place

I was upstairs.

say. I lead our group through the center of the main hall, thinking that they can take a

the very least to allow some of our pack to show their respects-and many