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 gazes

rushing up my neck to

cower and try

now, this is

packmates moving back and forth between the shift. That nake dness is a natural

never bothered

front of me. And not in front of any

in front

makes my wolf bristle, and I feel a

Wow.

wolf is fierce and

striving to keep my voice

Adam and James jer k their gazes

what!” Adam says, looking pis sed off, while James quickly moves to

a blanket for me.

but

the way his fingers brushed my skin was on purpose or not. I owe him an apology for mauling him earlier, but I can’t bring myself to voice the

me have assumed

Luna.

like that they think they can control me or tell me what to do. And my wolf, she

for a run. I have a wolf now. I can do that,” I tell Adam, remaining calm in the face of his

“Leah, until you woke up today, we didn’t know if you were ever going to

“Who the hell let him mate me,

in a quiet voice. “Believe me, I tried. I tried to do what you said, to keep you alive long