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.”

duffel bag from the back of the SUV

through the dark to the edge of

the same precision

night vision is easily ten times better than mine.

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

stones crunch as we walk, so this roadway is maintained

some way.

want to 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 in arguing over it.

just have to hope that I’m not walking

be the ultimate coup, though, wouldn’t

me, pins it on my father or my pack in some way.

Hmm.

stretch of ground and in

he’s holding me in

uh, I’m

grunts and keeps

3/4

lift, and moonlight floods this area, showing too many stars overhead to count and a valley below

bisected by a curving

“It’s beautiful.”

is,” he agrees.

intended to say that out loud.

eyes adapt more, I

that where we’re going?”

nods and picks up the pace.