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.

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

duffel bag from the back of the

through the dark to the

precision he does. And

his night vision is easily ten times better than mine. I let him lead the way.

there’s a low hum of different insects.

walk, so

some way.

won’t reveal anything he isn’t

just have to hope that I’m not

ultimate coup, though,

it on my father or my pack in some way.

Hmm.

on some uneven stretch of ground and

and he’s holding

I’m okay.”

grunts and keeps walking.

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glance up as the clouds lift, and moonlight floods this area, showing too many stars overhead to count and a valley below

bisected by a curving stretch of

“It’s beautiful.”

he

to say that out loud.

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

where we’re

nods and picks up