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.

know I’m never going to recover from. Not until I meet Aaron again in the

I keep going, shoving all those

be dealt with later when

too high. We can’t just wash our hands of this Al tech and be done with it. We have

yourself if the

millions–of

what if whoever has it started turning it against

you still be

in the mirror and not feel

deaths?”

“No, you’re right. I couldn’t live with that.

going to

into Karolina for a start,” I reply. “We’ll just have to do it in a way that hopefully Ryker won’t

to that, and I spend a few minutes mulling

there a way to track Karolina’s car? Or better yet, her cell phone?

then again, he hasn’t looked happy about any of this conversation.

It’s not that

Good.

like I’m getting

Karolina knows where the missing tech is,

use go it. Tracking her movements for a few days or weeks should give us a good idea of

those places ourselves and see if

us anywhere.

late by the time we

and we go our separate ways.

soundly in his crib across the

Aaron’s room, then into the

linger. I just want to wash the day away before I go to bed.

and collapse in the middle, dragging the

pillows.

the faintest hint of Aaron’s scent

be gone,