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.

even remember the girl I used to be before

aren’t just emotional or

father experimented

had a plan

strongest, fastest, most deadly

or even the Council should they

lab rat for their hideous research

anyone finds out, I’ll be immediately kicked

executed immediately.

me as I

the lure of going rogue teasing

to give in. To push into my wolf consciousness so completely that the shift

so open. I could sleep beneath the stars, maybe even

that happen, I’m frightened

Because I’m dangerous.

absolutely

shift and run,

I

place in the forest where Jessica, James, Aaron and

next to

now, it’s under a layer of snow, but in the spring,

the stream flows faster, tumbling over rocks

late into the night after the sun went down, listening to the chatter or frogs and insects as a wide sky of impossibly bright stars

than anything I could go back to those

back in

a different life