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.

whimpers, but doesn’t

absorbing Alpha powers is

I was going to di e on the day I

was a

she is human and

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

shudders and if I could, I’d take her pain onto

I’m having to exert far

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

teeth,” he

jaw there’s a chance it’ll crack or she’ll

bite down on. I force the stick

astonishing.

glance at James, he subtly shoulders his way closer and the rest of my men close in in a tighter wall

and his pack, if I could. Karolina

we’re all feeling this

as Alphas… we crave more

is human. And very

power would shift during this ceremony because the wolf side has a far greater threshold for pain and the connection to the wolf-and its pack-is amplified during

Leah has no

rights, one of the people in this clearing will be