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.

soul are in agony, wounded in a way I know I’m never going to recover from.

now,” I keep going, shoving

later

our hands of this Al tech and be done

if the tech got used

even millions–of people died?

has it started

Would you still be able

in the mirror and not feel the weight of all

deaths?”

looks grim. “No, you’re right. I couldn’t

we going

“We’ll just have to do it in a

that, and I spend a few minutes mulling over my

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

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

It’s not that hard.”

Good.

feel like

the missing tech is, then

go it. Tracking her movements for a few days or weeks should give us a good idea of all the places she goes to, and then we can

those places ourselves and see

us anywhere.

the time we get

and we go our

check on Ethan, but he’s sleeping soundly in his crib across the hall in the nursery.

into Aaron’s room, then into the luxuriously appointed

shower but don’t linger. I just want to

middle, dragging the blankets over myself and

pillows.

faintest hint of

soon it’ll be gone, just like