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.

even remember the girl I used

aren’t just

truth is, Liam and his father experimented on me in ways I

a plan

become the strongest, fastest, most deadly

easily decimate any other pack, or even the Council should

lab rat

know if anyone finds out, I’ll

executed immediately.

me as I am

going rogue teasing around

push into my wolf consciousness so completely that the

lands here are so open. I could sleep beneath the stars, maybe even merge into a wild wolf pack

let that happen, I’m frightened of what I

Because I’m dangerous.

am absolutely terrified of

shift and run, trying to

I can’t

in the forest where Jessica, James, Aaron

clearing next

under a layer of snow, but in the

the stream flows faster, tumbling over rocks as

down, listening to the chatter

hurts, and I wish more than anything I could go

in time and avoid what

different life