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.

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“Come on,” he says quietly. “It’s this way.”

a big duffel bag from the back of

the edge of the mountain

precision he does. And the gold

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

owl calls and there’s a low hum of

so this

some way.

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

that I’m not walking

the ultimate coup, though, wouldn’t it?

my father or my

Hmm.

of ground

arm and he’s holding me in place.

uh, I’m okay.”

and keeps

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lift, and moonlight floods this area, showing too many stars

bisected by a curving

“It’s beautiful.”

he

to say

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

where

and picks up the