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

dark to the edge

see with the same precision he

ten times better than mine. I

calls and there’s a low hum of

we walk, so this roadway is

some way.

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

I’m not walking to

the ultimate coup,

it on my father or my pack in some

Hmm.

some uneven stretch of ground and

holding me

uh, I’m

grunts and keeps walking.

3/4

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

curving stretch

“It’s beautiful.”

is,” he

intended to say that

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,

where we’re going?”

nods and picks up the pace.