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.

them bother to hide how their gazes move over

neck to my cheeks as

want to cower and try to cover

now, this is

seen other packmates moving back and forth between the shift. That nake dness is a natural state of being most of them don’t even

has certainly never bothered Aaron

And not in front of

front of Jessica,

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

Wow.

wolf is fierce and

going on?” I ask, striving to keep my voice

k their

missing, that’s what!” Adam says, looking pis sed off, while

a blanket for me.

from him, but instead he drops

murmur a thank you, trying not to wonder if the way his fingers brushed my skin was on purpose or not. I owe him

assumed too much. Taken

a Luna. I

tell me what to do. And my wolf, she

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

were ever going to wake up again. We don’t know what the

exactly did Aaron do?” I cut in, my voice icy and sharp. “Who the hell let him mate me, turn me, when the one thing I wanted was the life of my

him,” James replies in a quiet voice. “Believe me, I tried. I tried to do what you said, to keep you