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 doesn’t

pain of absorbing Alpha powers

to di e on

was a wolf in

human and

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

I could,

having to exert

It’s maybe three-quarters of an inch in diameter.

teeth,” he

way she’s clenching her jaw there’s

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

astonishing.

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

his pack, if

we’re all feeling this influx

we crave more

human.

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

has

then she will di e, and by rights, one of the people in