Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 279

AARON

All of my senses are on high alert as we leave the house and

hurry down the block to where James parked the SUV.

It’s like I can feel the threat of Vampires dragging over my

skin.

I can’t believe Leah and James risked coming here to rescue

me.

Actually, I can’t believe Karolina was foolish or desperate enough not to be discovered by her fellow Councilmembers stealing all of my Alpha power for herself, that she would risk.

coming into Vampire territory.

This isn’t like some bit of Twilight, with some peaceful co-existence ala the Cullens. We’re sworn enemies, and our species staunchly avoid each other.

We jump into the SUV and Leah insists on driving since she’s in

the best condition out of us all.

James gets into the backseat and immediately shifts to finish healing his head trauma that’d looked really nasty. Probably

Neither me nor Leah say anything as she starts driving, navigating out of the suburban streets to leave the run-down neighborhood and Vampire territory behind us, both of us tool

on edge until we know we’re in safer lands.

pulls off the highway into one of those picnic rest stops. There

pulls the car into a parking

I ask, wondering why she’s stopped so

but wordlessly climbs out of

walks around

I climb out and

standing there, her head bowed into her

shoulders shaking

pull her

into my neck,

scalded by the

were dead, Aaron. I thought you were gone. I thought Ethan and I were somehow going to have to live our lives

then, crying too hard to say

me the same thing, that

to quiet some of her tears, and she looks up at

I wonder if she’s ever

she does

in confusion. “Why would they

that?”

running my hand over her soft, silky curls. “Maybe they knew we

that we wouldn’t let anything or anyone stand in the way

through her tears.

in this life or the next can

us apart.”

I

to tell her that,

of longing and love

pliant against me, and it sends both me and my wolf

thing I know, I’ve got her pinned up against the back of the SUV with her legs wrapped