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

of absorbing Alpha powers is

thought I was going to di

a wolf in my

human

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

if I could, I’d

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

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

her teeth,”

jaw there’s a chance it’ll crack

something to bite down on. I force

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 close in in a tighter

Tobin and his pack, if I

we’re all feeling this influx

Alphas… we crave more

human. And

this ceremony because the wolf side has a far greater threshold for pain and the connection to the

Leah has

rights, one of the people in this clearing will