Bad Love An Alpha’s Regret

Chapter 270

I’m glad to climb back into the safety of the SUV with James after leaving the meeting with Ryker.

There wasn’t much left to say after Ryker made his ultimatum. He’s not going to help me get the Al tech back, not if it means moving against his mate.

I know I should heed his warning.

No one in their right mind pits themselves against the Old

Country Wolves and expects to survive.

But the tech–and whatever damage it might do is my

responsibility.

My family built it, and my family lost it.

No matter the cost, I have to get it back. Then decide whether to hand it over to the military like it was supposed to be, or destroy it and tell the military that the project failed.

“This isn’t good, Leah,” James says once we start driving.

“Tell me about it,” I mutter despondently. “But it doesn’t change things.”

“It doesn’t?” James says incredulously. “Leah, you heard Ryker. If you go after Karolina, he will come for you. Even Aaron was smart enough not to cross the Old Country Wolves.”

“In the past, maybe,” I reply, ignoring the tightness in my chest and the tears that prick my eyes. “But if he was here now, I know he’d be thinking about doing exactly that.”

God, I wish Aaron was here right now.

My entire body aches with wanting my mate.

in agony, wounded in a way I know I’m never going to recover from. Not

keep going, shoving all

to be dealt with later when I can be alone.

high. We can’t just wash our hands of this Al tech and be done with it. We have to get it back. Could you

the tech got used

thousands–maybe even millions–of people died? Or

it started turning

Would you still be able to look

and not feel the weight of

deaths?”

I couldn’t

we going

I reply. “We’ll just have to do it in a way that hopefully Ryker won’t find out about.”

doesn’t reply to that, and I spend a few minutes

as a few ideas start coming to me. “Is there a way to track Karolina’s car? Or better

my idea, but then again, he hasn’t looked happy about any

It’s not that

Good.

feel like I’m getting somewhere.

where the missing tech is, then maybe she’ll

forbid–get ready to use go it. Tracking her movements for a few days or weeks should give us a good idea of all the

places ourselves and see if

us anywhere.

we

goodnight, and we go

Ethan, but he’s sleeping soundly in

Aaron’s room, then into the luxuriously appointed

a shower but don’t linger. I just want to wash the day away before I go

in the middle,

pillows.

can still catch the faintest hint of

soon it’ll be gone, just like