Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 273

The pain is what wakes me up.

I find myself tied to a chair, held in place by the same kind of silver-wolfsbane infused chains that Tobin used that night at the factory when he tried to kill me for my Alpha powers.

I bring my head up, clenching my jaw against the constant searing and burning that’s keeping me from shifting back into my wolf.

I’m in some kind of rundown house, in what was once maybe a den or living room.

The ceiling is water stained, the carpet is mottled and moldy so it’s impossible to tell what the original color was, the drywall is cracked, and the dirty, tattered curtains shift from the breeze coming in from the broken window.

It smells like rats and decay.

What the hell am I doing here?

Why aren’t I in the cells in the basement of the Council Hall any longer?

www

opens and in

this point I’m not

this low-level vibe of malice that wasn’t obvious on the surface of her personality where she seems like an upstanding Councilmember

you’re awake,” Karolina says as she

you have really are something. Wrap any other wolf in chains like that,

Karolina?” I ask through

jaw.

when she looks at me, I see the

her in a deceptively mild voice. “Besides, I don’t even know what plans you’re

about.”

seems to annoy her

out with Tobin. We were going

up and start meddling, it just gets worse. The Old Ways don’t serve us any longer. The Old Ways mean we have to hide from humans. We’re hunted, even as we

at me, as if expecting an answer, but I sit stubbornly

question. “But it’s fine. My plans are back on track. I can see it through. I just need you to be out of the way. And I realized there’s a simple answer to that. One that will ensure I can be strong enough to stand against whatever resistance I encounter when the world begins reshaping for the better. People can’t always see it that way, you know. They’re scared, so they hang onto what is

pain, but when they do,