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

changes aren’t

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

plan for

strongest, fastest,

decimate any other pack, or even the Council should they

was the lab rat for their hideous research

I’ll be immediately

executed immediately.

be as disgusted with me as I

can feel the lure of going rogue

in. To push into my wolf consciousness so

are so open. I could sleep beneath

let that happen, I’m frightened of what I might

Because I’m dangerous.

absolutely terrified of

and run,

I can’t

Jessica, James, Aaron and I used to

this clearing next to a

under a layer of snow, but in the spring,

carpeted with sweet grasses and wildflowers, and the stream flows faster, tumbling over

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

wish more than anything I could go

travel back in time and

out a different life