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

dark to the edge

can’t see with the same precision he

wolf’s eyes tells me his night vision is easily ten

calls and there’s a low

walk, so this roadway

some way.

where we’re going and more importantly, why. But this wolf won’t reveal anything he isn’t ready to and there is no

to hope that I’m

the ultimate coup, though,

my father or

Hmm.

stretch of ground and

holding me in place.

uh, I’m

grunts and keeps walking.

3/4

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

a curving

“It’s beautiful.”

is,” he agrees.

to say that

down the trail, there is a flash of reflection. As my eyes adapt more, I see the straight lines of a cabin, and more glints of the moonlight on glass

that where we’re

nods and picks up the