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

to di

I was a wolf in

she is human and

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

I could, I’d take her pain onto

so she can’t flail, but her body is bucking and convulsing and I’m having to exert far more force than I want to. Just when I think the worst of it has passed, another round

three-quarters of an inch in diameter. He snaps the limb and hands me a

her teeth,”

her jaw there’s

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

astonishing.

And the next wave that crashes 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 close in in a

Tobin and his

we’re all feeling this influx

as Alphas… we crave more of

is human.

a far greater threshold for pain

has no

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