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

pain of absorbing

di

was a wolf in

is human

She can’t be si ck. I can’t wrap

if I could, I’d take her

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

inch in diameter. He snaps the limb and hands me a piece that’s maybe five or

her teeth,” he

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

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

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 tighter

Tobin and his pack, if I could. Karolina

feeling this influx of

we crave

is human. And very

person receiving such power would shift during this ceremony because the wolf side has a far

has

this transition 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