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.”

from the back of

the edge of the mountain top.

see with the same precision he does. And the gold

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

and there’s a low hum of different

crunch as we walk, so this

some way.

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

just have to hope that I’m not walking to my own grave.

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

my father or my pack

Hmm.

ground and in a flash, he has

and he’s holding me

I’m

grunts and keeps

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clouds lift, and moonlight floods this area, showing

a curving stretch of river.

“It’s beautiful.”

is,” he

hadn’t intended to say that

eyes adapt more, I see the straight lines

that where we’re going?”

and picks up