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.

ways, I can’t even remember the girl I used to be before the

changes aren’t just emotional

experimented on me in ways I don’t

a plan

strongest,

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

the lab rat for

anyone finds out, I’ll be

executed immediately.

be as disgusted with me as I am with

of going rogue teasing around the

easy to give in. To push into my wolf

The lands here are so open. I could sleep

I’m frightened of what I

Because I’m dangerous.

am absolutely terrified of

I shift and

is, I can’t outrun

the place in the forest where Jessica, James, Aaron and I used to play when

next

it’s under a layer of

wildflowers, and the stream flows faster, tumbling over rocks as the ice melt

stream, staying out 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 dusted the inky

more than anything I could

travel back in time and avoid what happened to

out a different life