Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 52

Leah’s body arches, bowing so sharply it’s a wonder her spine doesn’t crack completely.

I wince.

Around me, the wolves gathered sit on their haunches. They watch. Others shift back to their human forms. Tobin comes and stands a few feet away from me. Karolina, the wolf from the Council, she and three other females move to the opposite side.

They’re na ked. All of them.

Blood stains skin and the flames from the fire flicker over their

bodies.

Leah screams.

A few of the wolves wince.

Tobin is expressionless. His eyes are pale and cold and unflinching.

Karolina is quizzical, her face reminds me of a hawk, even her movements seem sharp. She watches Leah like a bird-of-prey.

“It’s all right. I’ve got you,” I whisper.

but doesn’t

pain of absorbing Alpha powers

was going to di e

a wolf

is human

her tighter. She can’t be si ck. I

I could, I’d

convulsing and I’m having to exert far

maybe three-quarters of an inch in diameter. He snaps the limb and hands me a piece that’s maybe

her teeth,” he

With the way she’s clenching her jaw there’s a chance it’ll crack or

whisper, trying to give her something to bite down on. I force the stick into her mo uth and the

astonishing.

and so am I. And the next wave that crashes over her is more powerful than the one before. I glance

back Tobin and his pack, if

we’re all feeling this influx of

as Alphas… we crave

is human.

a far greater threshold for pain and the connection to

Leah has no

father’s Alpha lineage, then she will di e, and by rights, one of the people in this clearing will be able to channel it. Because that’s the thing with power… it can be given. Or