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.

many ways, I can’t even remember the girl I

the changes aren’t just emotional or

truth is, Liam and his father experimented on me in ways I don’t

plan for Roberts

the strongest, fastest, most

pack, or

rat for their hideous research and

finds out, I’ll be

executed immediately.

disgusted with me as

of going rogue teasing around the

be so easy to give in. To push into my wolf consciousness so

so open. I could sleep beneath the stars, maybe

I’m frightened of what I

Because I’m dangerous.

am absolutely

and run, trying

is, I can’t outrun

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

this clearing next to a

layer of snow, but in

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

and fish in the 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

more than anything I could go back

could somehow travel back in time and avoid what happened to

different life