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.”

bag from the back of the SUV and

through the dark to the edge of the

with the same precision he does. And the gold flash

is easily ten times better than mine. I let

there’s a low hum of different

walk, so this roadway is maintained in

some way.

want to ask where we’re going and more importantly, why. But this wolf won’t reveal

hope that I’m not walking to my own grave.

the ultimate coup, though, wouldn’t

kills me, pins it on my father or my

Hmm.

slide on some uneven stretch of ground

he’s holding me in place.

I’m okay.”

grunts and keeps walking.

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

curving stretch

“It’s beautiful.”

he agrees.

say that out loud.

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

where we’re going?”

and picks up the pace.