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

of absorbing

going to di e on the

was a

is human and

her tighter. She can’t be si ck. I can’t wrap my

I could, I’d take her

bucking and convulsing and I’m having to exert far more force than I want to. Just when I think

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

teeth,”

clenching her jaw there’s a chance it’ll crack or she’ll shatter

trying to give her something to bite down on. I force the stick into her mo

astonishing.

over her is more powerful than the one before. I glance at James, he subtly shoulders his way closer and the rest of my men

Tobin and his pack,

all feeling this

we crave more

human.

such power would shift during this ceremony because the wolf side has a far greater threshold for pain and

Leah has

her father’s Alpha lineage, then she will di e, and by rights, one of the people in this clearing will be able to