Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 23

The road winds back and forth as we gain elevation. The

mountain is steep enough to ski and it’s heavily wooded. The headlights cast shadows through the pines and fir.

I’ve never been here before.

I wonder if Aaron has.

He brings the vehicle to the mountain top and parks. “Get out,”

he tells me.

slowly unbuckle my belt. It’s significantly colder here than where we’d been and I didn’t think to bring a coat. I don’t have my medications. My phone’s about to die.

This is the type of deserted stretch of forest where you’d go hunting for the weekend.

Or where you’d bury a body.

After the things I’ve said tonight, I have to wonder why Aaron has brought me here.

n a battle of strength against this wolf, there would be no

contest.

2/4

“Come on,” he says quietly. “It’s this way.”

big duffel bag from the back of the SUV and

through the dark to the edge of the mountain

the same precision

his wolf’s eyes tells me his night vision is easily ten times better than mine. I

there’s a low hum of different

crunch as we walk, so this roadway

some way.

this wolf won’t reveal anything he isn’t ready

hope that I’m not walking

be the ultimate coup, though, wouldn’t it?

on my father or my pack in

Hmm.

of ground and in

holding me in place.

I’m okay.”

grunts and

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and moonlight floods this area, showing too many stars overhead to count and a valley below

bisected by a curving stretch

“It’s beautiful.”

is,” he

to say

is a flash of reflection. As my eyes adapt more, I see the straight lines of a cabin,

that where we’re

nods and picks up