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.”

bag from the back of the SUV

to the edge of the

with the same precision he does. And

is easily ten times better than mine.

calls and there’s a low hum of different

stones crunch as we walk, so this roadway is

some way.

going and more importantly, why. But this wolf won’t reveal anything he isn’t ready to and there is no point in arguing over

to hope that I’m

the ultimate

pins it on my father

Hmm.

ground

he’s holding me in place.

uh, I’m

grunts and

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lift, and moonlight floods this area, showing too

curving stretch of river.

“It’s beautiful.”

is,” he agrees.

hadn’t intended to say that out loud.

a mile or so down the trail, there is a flash of reflection. As my eyes adapt more, I see the straight lines of a cabin, and more glints

where we’re

nods and picks up the pace.