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 captured

the changes aren’t just emotional

his father experimented on me

plan for Roberts

strongest, fastest, most deadly

any other pack, or even the Council should they decide to act

I was the lab rat for their

out, I’ll be immediately

executed immediately.

disgusted with me as I am with

feel the lure of going rogue

would be so easy to give in. To push

I could sleep beneath

that happen, I’m frightened

Because I’m dangerous.

absolutely terrified

I shift and run, trying to

problem is, I can’t outrun

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

this clearing next to a

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

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

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

hurts, and I wish more than anything I could

travel back in time and avoid what

a different life