Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 285

EMILY

I can’t escape the vague feeling of panic that’s been lodged in my chest ever since James and that bi ch Leah found me in the remote cabin.

It feels like any second now, someone is going to grab me and force me back into captivity.

And I think part of me would welcome that.

At least it’s familiar.

At least I know what to expect when I’m being held.

There are rules and I follow them if I want my life to be easy and pain free.

But now that I’ve been released, there are no rules.

Or, at least not the same rules.

I’m just free and there’s something slightly terrifying about it.

It’s easier to be in wolf form.

My wolt acts on instinct. She sees the world in more simple absolutes.

She can ignore the human anxieties and questions of what my life is even supposed to look like now.

She can ignore the question of how I’m going to hide the truth. from the rest of the pack.

I can’t even remember the girl I used to be before the old Roberts Alpha

changes aren’t just emotional

and his father experimented on me in

a plan

become the strongest, fastest, most

that could easily decimate any other pack, or even the Council should they decide to act against

the lab rat

anyone finds out, I’ll be immediately kicked out of

executed immediately.

me

lure of going rogue teasing around the edges of my

to give in. To push into

so bad. The lands here are so open. I could sleep beneath

I let that happen, I’m

Because I’m dangerous.

absolutely

I shift and run,

I can’t

Jessica, James, Aaron

next to a

it’s under a layer of snow, but in

with sweet grasses and wildflowers, and the stream flows faster, tumbling over rocks as the ice melt washes down from

the stream, staying out late into the night after the sun went down, listening to the chatter or

chest hurts, and I wish more than anything

I could somehow travel back in time and avoid what

a different life