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.

bother to hide how their gazes move

heat rushing up my neck

cower and try to

now, this is part of my

shift. That nake dness is a natural state of being most of

certainly never

in

front of Jessica,

before me, and who still had designs on him makes my wolf bristle, and I feel a growl rumbling up

Wow.

is fierce and

ask, striving to keep my

James jer k their gazes back

went missing, that’s what!” Adam says, looking pis sed off, while James quickly moves to the couch in a nearby room to

a blanket for me.

but instead he drops it around my

fingers brushed my skin was on purpose or not. I owe him an apology for mauling him earlier, but

wolves around me have assumed too

am a Luna. I was

think they can control me or tell me what to do. And my wolf, she isn’t having any

that,” I tell Adam, remaining calm in the face of his anger, even though out of everyone here, I

a run?” Adam demands. “Leah, until you woke up today, we didn’t know if you were

let him mate me, turn me, when

I tried. I tried to do what you said, to keep you alive long enough