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

pain of absorbing Alpha powers is

thought I was going to di e

a wolf in

human

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

shudders and if I could, I’d

can’t flail, but her body is bucking and convulsing and I’m having to exert far more

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

teeth,” he

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

down on. I force the stick into

astonishing.

than the one before. I glance at

back Tobin and his

feeling this influx

we crave more

is human. And very

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

has no

of her 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