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

point I’m not all

about Karolina I didn’t like or trust, this low-level vibe of malice that wasn’t obvious on the surface of her personality where she seems like an upstanding Councilmember who only wants

you’re awake,” Karolina says as she struts in. “Those

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

here, Karolina?” I ask through a

jaw.

a shrug, as if she doesn’t have a care in the world. But when she looks at me, I see the true frustration and fury in her gaze. “I’m sick of your getting in the way and

sorry,” I tell her in a deceptively mild voice. “Besides, I don’t even

about.”

to annoy her

figured out with Tobin. We were going to

Ways don’t serve us any longer. The Old Ways mean we have to hide from humans. We’re hunted, even as we fight between ourselves to the point that our species is in dangerous decline. Are we just supposed to hang onto the Old

an

One that will ensure I can be strong enough to stand against whatever resistance I encounter when the world begins

through all the pain, but when