Bad Love An Alpha’s Regret

AARON

We’ve slaughtered our way through a good number of Havelock wolves when the Beta comes running out and yells at me that if I want to face Adam, I have to tell my own wolves to back down.

I send James a signal, and he takes care of it for me.

I didn’t want to come here and indiscriminately kill other wolves who are only acting on the misinformed orders of their Alpha, but at the same time, they stood between me and my mate and son, so I wasn’t about to show any mercy.

I follow the Beta past the line of injured and retreating wolves on both sides.

The Havelock pack have suffered more loss than my combined packs have.

Besides being outnumbered, it was clear the Havelock wolves weren’t as nearly well trained as my own packs, which surprised me a bit.

I would’ve thought Tobin ran a tight ship.

But then again, he was more feral, less in control of his wolf, and seemed preoccupied with the workings of the Council and his own power. Obviously, that’d resulted in his own pack being somewhat neglected.

I let the Beta escort me into Tobin’s mansion, even though I want to rush ahead.

Almost as soon as we’re inside, I hear the sound of Ethan crying, and I give up all pretenses of being civil

I shove the Beta aside and sprint, following both the sound and scent of Ethan until I reach a study.

I find Leah standing over Adam, his neck slashed open, while Leah’s claws and mouth are dripping with blood. She’s rubbing her own neck, and fury burns through me as I can already see hand mark bruises appearing on her delicate skin.

“What the hell did he do?” I demand, rushing over to Leah so I can check her over more closely.

“He tried to kill me, so I had to-” she replies, her voice scratchy. She wipes her mouth with her arm, but from the way she mauled Adam and slashed at him, she tasted his blood. It’s all over her hands

I pull her into my

just defending yourself. You saved yourself. No

say those words, Adam gasps his last breath and then goes

hold and looking at me

anything, she suddenly goes taut, her

forward and catch her before she

looks like,

say frantically, holding her

out, before she goes

to the floor, holding her in my arms as the power transfer begins in earnest, and she lets out a

understand how Adam had any Alpha powers, but now they are transferring to Leah because she killed him, and Adam obviously hadn’t named an heir to take them on the event

did

the last time

am, and things start to answer

had the Havelock pack

means he killed

why would he even do

nefarious plans, right up to abducting my son and using Leah as bait so

see how she’s overcome with pain, I realize none of the answers

NOW.

matters is

how the Havelock wolves are going to react if they find out

will probably be accepting, but others may

Leah is midway through

make the process more painful or even more dangerous, but I think it’s a risk I