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.

the girl I used to be before the old Roberts Alpha

aren’t just emotional

father experimented

a plan for

strongest, fastest, most deadly

or even

was the lab rat for their hideous research

know if anyone finds out, I’ll be

executed immediately.

me as

of going rogue teasing around the edges of my

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

could sleep beneath the stars, maybe even

happen, I’m frightened of what I might

Because I’m dangerous.

absolutely terrified

and run, trying

I

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

this clearing next

under a layer of snow, but in

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

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

chest hurts, and I wish more than anything I

in

a different life