Bad Love: An Alpha's Regret (Leah and Aaron) novel Chapter 230

Chapter 230
AARON
The slaug hter I find at the cabin is worse than the carnage I left behind at the factory where we fought Tobin and his men.
All of the guys I left behind to protect the property are dead.
Every single one of them.
Starting with the guys manning the gate and outer perimeter, all the way up the mountain to the cabin itself.
I can’t even imagine the number of wolves it must have taken to overwhelm and defeat my most highly-trained men.
My heart feels like it’s being slowly torn out of my chest as I desperately run into the cabin, only to find more of the same.
My dead men, and their last line of defense.
Worse, Lillian wasn’t spared.
I know in my heart she would have done everything to protect Ethan right up to her last dying breath.
I st agger a little as I walk through the cabin
I don’t know if I can bring myself to walk into Ethan’s nursery.
I know if I see the brok
body of my infant son in his crib, it will ruin me.
I will be broken, and nothing in the world will be able to pull me back from the madness.
But I have to know, so I force my legs to carry me the rest of the way until I’m standing in the doorway.
Weirdly enough, the room is pristine and completely untouched, as if the tide of violence didn’t quite reach this far.
Ethan’s crib is empty, and there’s no sign of blood or other trauma left behind.
And then I start noticing a few odd things,
His baby bag, car capsule, teddies, a blanket that’s usually on the rocking chair and a number of other items are missing.
I go back out into the main room of the cabin, forcing myself to ignore the carnage for the moment.
In the kitchen, while Ethan’s bottles of milk are made up for the day, Labeled and still stored in the fridge, some of his spare bottles and the tin of baby formula are gone, along with all his pacifiers.
Hope sparks to life inside me, and my relief is so acute, I have to drop to my knees right there in the middle of the kitchen.
Whoever took Ethan, they also took a whole bunch of stuff with the clear intention to look after him.
It doesn’t make it any better or easier, but at least now I know he’s not dead, and maybe they don’t intend to kill him.
Faced with our missing son and the immediate need to get him back as soon as possible, I know I have to tell Leah as soon as possible
I should have told her sooner, I regret that I didn’t..
Maybe none of this would’ve happened if I’d told Leah
Or then again, maybe Tobin would have used Ethan as bait today at the factory instead of my mate, and my son could have been hurt.
But that makes me wonder if Tobin somehow had something to do with Ethan’s abduction. That he thought I would be dead by now, and had organized to have my son snat ched at the very same moment he was killing me.
But to what end?
And where would he have instructed his men to take my son?
Tobin’s pack lands and the Council chambers seem like the obvious places to start, and I vow I’m going to rip apart every possible location from foundations to ceilings until I’ve found my son, or someone tells me where he is.
I can’t imagine the Council would condone child abduction, no matter how worried they are about me making a play for a seat at their table.
If I have to appeal to them-even hand myself over for crimes I didn’t commit-and it helps me find Ethan that much faster, I don’t
care.
My life is nothing compared to the life of my only son.
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I get to my feet, planning to go to the Council chambers first.
I’ll have to instruct James to send some more pack members to take care of the grim task in attending to all the bodies of our dead. men and Lillian.
It feels like our pack is at war all over again, and the loss of my sister and my parents is an acute pain, like it happened yesterday, not
years ago.
As I cross the cabin, I hear the sound of a car engine.
I doubt it’s my enemies. There’s nothing left here except death.
And the mood I’m in right now, my enemies would be foolish to face me because I would slaug hter them where they stand without
mercy.
I think James has anticipated my needs as always, and already sent some of the guys up here to take care of things.
However, as I reach the threshold and step out of the cabin, the first person I spot is Leah.