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.”

Aleksei comes from the Old World and he looks it. He

in every detail. There’s a preternatural

ever come across.

and tawny. Aaron angles so he is in front of me. Liam too

protect me.

“Look at this wolf! Always so ready to fight. Relax, Alpha Rathborn. We come here to talk.”

smiles easily. “Of course.” He glances

like to entertain

this.

resorting to violence, and part of me worried if he did keep his temper in check, that he’d be speaking on my behalf or doing something to relegate me to the background.

isn’t doing any of those things. He’s

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

to clear that

nods and

hope nobody wrecked the place in the time

I was upstairs.

I say. I lead our group through the center of the main

least to allow some of our pack to show their