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

di e

I was a wolf

she is human and si

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

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

James approaches me with a tree branch. It’s maybe three-quarters of an inch in diameter. He snaps the limb and hands me a piece

her teeth,”

her jaw there’s a

on. I force the stick

astonishing.

the next wave that crashes over her is more powerful than the one before. I glance at James, he

his pack,

all feeling this influx

Alphas… we crave more

human.

receiving such 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

has

rights, one of the people in this clearing will be able to channel it. Because that’s the thing with power… it can