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

through the dark to the edge of the

with the same precision he does.

easily ten times

and there’s a low hum of

stones crunch as we walk, so this roadway is

some way.

this wolf won’t reveal anything he isn’t ready to and

I’m not walking

would be the ultimate coup, though,

on my father or my

Hmm.

ground and

holding me

I’m

grunts and keeps

3/4

up as the clouds lift, and moonlight floods this area, showing too many stars overhead to count and a

by a curving stretch of river.

“It’s beautiful.”

he

hadn’t intended to say that out

is a flash of reflection. As my eyes adapt more,

where we’re going?”

nods and picks up the pace.