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 until I meet Aaron again in the next

are different now,” I keep going, shoving

be dealt with later when I can be

tech and be done

yourself if the tech

even millions–of people died?

what if whoever has it started

you still be able to look

yourself in the mirror and not

deaths?”

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

are we going

a start,” I reply. “We’ll just have to

that, and I spend a few minutes

a way to track Karolina’s car? Or better yet, her cell phone? Maybe even both.”

happy about my idea, but then again,

It’s not that hard.”

Good.

like I’m

the missing tech is,

either check on it–or, god 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 she

places ourselves

us anywhere.

time we get back to Rathborn

wishes me goodnight, and we go

he’s sleeping soundly in his crib across the hall in the nursery.

room, then into the luxuriously appointed bathroom.

don’t linger. I just want to wash the

in the middle, dragging the blankets over

pillows.

of Aaron’s scent and I

it’ll be gone, just like he’s