Bad Love An Alpha’s Regret

Chapter 259

It’s not until we roll into the wide, circular driveway that it

finally hits me.

“Oh my god!” I gasp, my hand flying over to clamp on James’s

forearm.

“What’s wrong?” James asks with wide eyes, his head. snapping around as if looking for a threat.

“When Aaron died, where did his Alpha powers go? Not just the Rathborn powers, but for all three Alphas?” I demand.

James opens his mouth, but then seems to realize he doesn’t have an answer. “I don’t know.”

“You don’t think-” My heart seizes like I’ve been shocked with

a livewire. “Ethan.”

James’s expression immediately drops into one of dread. “He was fine when I left him-”

I don’t even bother to wait for James to finish.

If Alpha powers aren’t purposefully deemed an heir–like my father did with me by having Adam inject me with my father’s

not intercepted by another powerful

blood–like Aaron did when

powers the night Liam killed

go to the next in the bloodline.

is

and then realize

for him in this

the housekeepers is passing by, and I grab at her like I’m

Ethan?” I demand

crib, napping,” she replies in wary

go and run for the door as James finally catches

tossing an apology and some kind of

he goes by.

in Aaron’s

and already prepared for the worst.

happened–after losing

bond–I’m expecting another blow.

lying in his crib, right where

would be.

And he’s fine.

up at the colorful

my knees give out so that I end up kneeling next to the crib, my brow pressed into the cool wood as I watch my son through the slats.

My whole world.

piece

:

okay, thank God,” James says from just above me,

he was