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

to di e on the day I

I was a wolf in my

human

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

and if I could, I’d take

I’m having to exert

one point, 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 that’s

her teeth,”

clenching her jaw there’s

whisper, trying to give her something to bite down on. I force

astonishing.

over her is more powerful than the one before. I glance at James, he subtly shoulders

and his pack, if

all feeling

as Alphas… we crave

is human. And

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

Leah has

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