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.”

big duffel bag from the

through the dark to the edge of

can’t see with the same precision

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

there’s a low hum of different insects. Gravel

we walk, so this roadway is maintained in

some way.

want to ask where we’re going and more importantly, why. But this wolf won’t reveal anything he isn’t ready to and there is

to hope that I’m not

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

father or my pack

Hmm.

stretch of ground and in a

and he’s holding me in

uh, I’m okay.”

grunts and keeps

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floods this area, showing too many

a curving stretch of

“It’s beautiful.”

is,” he agrees.

hadn’t intended to say that

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

that where

nods and picks up