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.”

big duffel bag from the back of the SUV and

the dark to the edge of

same precision he does. And the gold flash

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

owl calls and there’s a low hum of different insects. Gravel

crunch as we walk, so this roadway is maintained

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 no point

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

would be the ultimate coup, though, wouldn’t

on my father or my pack

Hmm.

slide on some uneven stretch of ground and

holding me in

I’m

and

3/4

moonlight floods this area, showing too many stars overhead to

bisected by a curving stretch of river.

“It’s beautiful.”

is,” he agrees.

intended to say that out

my eyes adapt more, I see the straight lines of a cabin, and more glints of the moonlight on glass windows.

that where we’re going?”

picks up the pace.