Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 275

The closer we get to the address where Karolina is situated, the more my wolf becomes agitated. I shift restlessly in the front seat of the SUV, wondering what’s going on with her.

It’s like she’s on high alert. Like we’re somehow trapped, or there’s some unseen danger, and we should be fleeing in the other direction.

I can tell James is also feeling similarly troubled as he parks the SUV just down the block from the abandoned house.

James had been right about this neighborhood.

Every house is in a sad, neglected state. Sagging roofs, broken windows, junk in the weed-choked yards and broken down, rusted cars.

Only some of the houses look like they’re even occupied. A lot of the houses look like they’ve been abandoned.

“Why is my wolf so-”

“Freaked out?” James finishes with a quick smile that doesn’t quite reach his eyes. “You should trust what she’s telling you, there’s danger nearby.”

“What do you mean?” I ask apprehensively.

That prickly leeling

there are Vampires somewhere nearby. We need to get in and out as fast as possible, before they realize wolves have wandered right into their territory.”

I nod and swallow down the dread, checking my weapons before we get out of the SUV.

Despite the fear and the way my wolf is clawing at my insides to get out of here, I’m not going to back down.

who’ve either narrowly escaped them, or heard

simple fact of our existence, and if they ever come across us, they don’t

mercy.

tales about entire

strong, but mortal. Vampires…

impossible to kill something that’s

the AI tech-otherwise why risk coming here at

I hurry down the block

step we take, scanning my surroundings,

they ever have.

exhilarating, I can feel the true power of both my wolf and her Alpha status flowing through my veins like fire. But the reason for it-the danger we’re in just

I almost expect to find Council Enforcer wolves guarding the

took a big risk coming here without any

up to that she’d

the house

anything but the sound of water running somewhere deeper in

and general gross decay, so it’s hard to pick up any trace of anything

Karolina over all that,

and I share a quick glance of acknowledgement, before we start creeping toward the

the sound of Karolina humming, as if she’s doing some boring task, and absentmindedly filling in

that makes me stop dead

body like a livewire, lighting up every cell of me, but

It doesn’t make sense.