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.”

from the back of the

to the edge of the mountain top.

see with the same precision he does. And the gold flash

ten times better

there’s a low

as we walk, so this roadway is

some way.

why. But this wolf won’t reveal anything he isn’t ready to and there is no point

hope that I’m not walking to my own

ultimate coup,

kills me, pins it on my father

Hmm.

stretch of ground and in a flash, he

arm and he’s holding me

uh, I’m okay.”

grunts and keeps walking.

3/4

the clouds lift, and moonlight floods this area, showing too many stars

a curving stretch

“It’s beautiful.”

he agrees.

to say

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

that where we’re going?”

nods and picks up the