Bad Love: An Alpha's Regret (Leah and Aaron) novel Chapter 234

Chapter 234
Dealing with Karolina is honestly the last thing I want to do right now.
What if this is something to do with Tobin being dead?
What if she’s come for Aaron? Right when I’m going to need him to help fight for our son-as soon as I figure out where he is.
But it could be regular Council business or even following up from the meeting when Aaron announced he wanted to divorce me
Now I think the whole ‘divorce’ thing was just part of his stu pid plan to protect me. Make whoever was trying to kill him-Tobin for a start-think he didn’t care about me, which made me less of a target.
It hadn’t exactly worked in the end.
Not after everything that’s happened tonight.
I hurry through the house to the formal front sitting room where we entertain important guests. One of the pack members is just providing refreshments for Karolina as I walk in.
“Luna Leah,” she greets me as I enter the room and thank the pack member who served her. “I must say, your pack seems well cared for and are quite adept at dealing with unexpected visitors in a gracious manner.”
“Thankyou, Councilwoman,” I reply with a half-bow of respect
Karolina, however, waves a hand. “Forget the formality. I’ve never seen the point of it myself”
I send Karolina a polite smile. “Then you won’t mind if I ask why you’ve come? It’s just that now isn’t the best time. I have a serious pack issue I’m trying to deal with.”
Karolina sends me a sympathetic look “Sorry to hear that. I won’t keep you then, I just thought you should know the Council was petitioned by the Roberts pack doctor today.”
“Adam?” I say in surprise.
With everything that’s happened, I almost forgot about how I’d begun unraveling the truth of Ethan’s existence by seeing Adam’s medical files stating he’d been born and spent weeks in the NICU.
Karolina nods. “He petitioned to join another pack, which is unusual Not many wolves willingly leave their family pack, and I believe Adam’s family have been loyal to the Roberts pack for several generations.”
I swallow the lump that rises in my throat at the reminder of how Adam betrayed me, how he was monitoring me.
“I wondered if you were aware,” Karolina continues after a moment.
“I’m aware,” I say, trying to keep my voice even. “He betrayed the pack, so I banished him.”
“But Aaron didn’t disavow him and leave him rogue?” Karolina questions curiously.
“Aaron wasn’t here when it happened,” I don’t like admitting this, as if it’s some kind of weakness, like our pack isn’t the completely united front we’ve shown it to be.
“Which pack did Adam petition to join? I ask curiously when Karolina doesn’t say anything else.
“The Havelock pack.”
“Tobin’s pack?” I demand in confusion.
“You’re surprised?” Karolina questions, and it feels like she’s measuring my responses. “Tobin and Adam have been close friends for quite a number of years now. Much of the time, when Tobin visited Roberts’ pack, he wasn’t there to see Liam or your father, he was there to see Adam.”
I feel like I’ve been struck dumb.
How did I not know this?
“And was Adam’s petition granted?” I ask, feeling like I’m in some sort of daze and trying not to show it.
Somehow this is all connected.
I can feel it in my mind, there’s something to be made from this new information about Tobin and Adam being close friends, but I can’t think-or do anything-with Karolina standing in front of me, watching me like a hawk
“Yes, the Council granted his petition to join Tobin’s pack,” Karolina answers. “The Council just needed to know we weren’t going to have you and Aaron filing an official complaint for losing your doctor to another pack”
“I understand,” I reply, even though I wonder if they were so worried about potentially upsetting the Roberts/Rathborn packs by letting their doctor join another pack, they didn’t consult us before they granted Adam’s request.
But I don’t say anything
Because as far as I’m concerned, it was good riddance to getting rid of Adam.
“Then I’ll take my leave,” Karolina says, moving toward the door, however she pauses to look back at me. “But you should be careful, Luma Leah. It doesn’t look good when pack members are defecting, especially valuable pack members like your doctor.”
I feel my temper rising, but I keep a handle on it.
“I’ll keep that in mind, thank you.
I walk Karolina to the door, trying not to rush her out, even though I’m impatient for her to leave.
Once she’s gone, I rush back to the office where James is waiting
“Adam petitioned the council to join Tobin’s pack, I announce as soon as I come barreling into the room.
James arches his eyebrows. “Why?”
“Apparently they were friends.” I go over and look at our notes, trying to figure out why this matters.
“Adam injected me with my father’s blood to make sure my father’s Alpha’s powers transferred to me the same day Brian kidnapped me and then Tobin arrived in the clearing to kill me…so maybe Adain was working for Tobin the whole time, not just playing all sides,” I say, thinking out loud.
“Okay, but Tobin is dead-not that anyone seems to know it yet,” James says. “So where does that leave us?”
It hits me all at once and I look at him, my eyes widening “If Adam was working with Tobin, including up to last night when Tobin used me as bait to lure Aaron out so Tobin could kill him for the Alpha powers, then the other half of the plan-kidnapping Ethan-almost makes sense.”
“How do you mean?” James asks in confusion.
“Tobin must have decided he needed a backup plan if the plan for Aaron failed. So he had Adam take care of it… Adam is the one who kidnapped Ethan.”