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.

heard the stories from other wolves who’ve either narrowly escaped them, or heard stories from other packs who encountered

They hate wolves for the simple fact of our existence, and if they ever

mercy.

tales about entire packs being

mortal. Vampires…

it’s nigh on impossible to kill something that’s already

the AI tech-otherwise why risk

and I hurry down the block toward

to every step we take, scanning my surroundings, scenting the air, my senses running

they ever have.

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 by being here-that gives the

I almost expect to find Council Enforcer wolves guarding

big risk

be up to that she’d put even her own safety

quietly slip into the house

anything but the sound of water running somewhere deeper in the

heavy with mold and rats and general gross decay, so it’s hard to

all that, but

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

at the sound of Karolina humming, as if she’s

that makes me stop dead in

livewire, lighting up

It doesn’t make sense.