Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 156

PRESENT DAY

LEAH

I run until the sunsets and the lands come alive with the sounds and scents of night.

My wolf is intrigued, and wants to keep running with the moonlight reflecting off the snow, but I promise her we’ll come back out here another night.

Right now, we are both hungry and tired.

Although, my exhaustion is the deep emotional type, from all I’ve had to endure these last weeks-

Except then I remember it’s been months, and a new kind of sadness overtakes me.

My wolf howls mournfully, the sound echoing lonely into the night.

Eventually she takes us home, her sense of direction unerring.

When we arrive, it’s to find a flurry of activity, with James and Adam standing at the center of it all.

James is all healed, but his clothes are still torn and blo ody, and as soon as I see him, I feel terrible for what I did.

I don’t realize my wolf is handing the reins back to me until it’s too late, until I am shifting, and then climbing to my feet, na ked in front of half a dozen packmates.

Nake d in front of both Adam and James.

to hide how their

up my neck

want to cower and try to

now, this is part

shift. That nake dness is a natural state of being most of them don’t

certainly never bothered Aaron

in front of any other number

in front of

makes my wolf bristle, and I feel a growl rumbling up within me

Wow.

is

striving to keep my voice

Adam and James jer k their

says, looking pis sed off, while James quickly moves

a blanket for me.

to take it from him, but

fingers brushed my skin was on purpose or not. I owe him an

have assumed too much.

a Luna. I was an

tell me what to do. And my wolf, she isn’t having

can do that,” I tell Adam, remaining calm in the face of his anger, even though out of everyone here, I have the most right to be

for a run?” Adam demands. “Leah, until you woke up today, we didn’t know if you were ever going to wake up again. We don’t know what the

in, my voice icy and sharp. “Who the hell let him mate me, turn me, when the

replies in a quiet voice. “Believe me, I tried. I tried to do what