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.”

grabs a big duffel bag from the back of

to the edge of the mountain top.

with the same precision he does. And the gold flash

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

there’s a low hum

so

some way.

more importantly, why. But this wolf won’t reveal anything he isn’t ready to and

I’m not walking to my own

be the ultimate coup, though,

on my father or my pack in some

Hmm.

of ground and in a flash, he has

holding me in place.

I’m

and keeps

3/4

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

“It’s beautiful.”

he agrees.

to say that out

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

where we’re

and picks up the pace.