Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

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I’m on my feet and backing away in the next moment, on the

defensive and glancing around, as if I’m scared other vampires are about to jump out and attack me.

“Emily, please,” Ronan says quickly, jumping to his feet and holding up his hands, like he’s trying to stop me or calm me down. “Just hear me out. It’s not what you think.”

“Oh yeah?” I snap in reply. “And what do I think?”

“That I’m your enemy,” Ronan replies, staying where he is and pointedly not trying to close the distance between us, as if he

doesn’t want me to see him as a threat.

He is a threat.

He’s exactly what he just said.

My enemy.

“You assume I’m planning something bad, and that I want to hurt

you. But that’s not the truth,” Ronan continues after a moment when I don’t say anything.

“Then what is the truth?” I demand, and now I’ve stopped backing away.

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In fact, I’ve taken a step closer to him again, my curiosity winning

out over my caution.

“The truth is I know what you are,” he replies, sending me at

knowing look.

So, he knows I’m a wolf?

Big deal, he would have scented it or sensed it or whatever the

hell vampires do to differentiate humans from wolves from other

vampires.

Unlike me, who wasn’t able to scent him at all.

“That first day, I was out here just trying to get away from everything, same as you,” he continues, taking a cautious step

closer.

a vampire,” I scoff,

him.

response. “Probably about as hard

our Elder Enclave, just like

to follow, and

they’re more

Things aren’t always straightforward, and

escape all that stuff.”

certainly understand that.

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be running back to the safety of Rathborn land, but for better or worse, it seems I’m at least willing to hear him

but I cross my arms and keep myself tense, ready

don’t

too strong to simply walk

about vampires, questions I want to ask, and Ronan is right here, willing and talking

may never get another opportunity

ran when I saw you sitting on the trail and realized what you are. But then you looked so alone and so lost -the same way I felt. Something in me wanted to talk to you, to know what had made you feel that way, to

curiosity.”

know

the thing is, Ronan could have ambushed and killed me that

first day.

so lost in my own

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here, plus I hadn’t been able to scent him, so it would have likely

that you were a vampire?”

suspiciously.

a leather cord around his neck and pulls it out of his shirt, revealing a pendant symbol, and a tiny glass

replies, dangling the talisman.

step forward

of these, but I’ve never

they’d made all kinds

items like this.

a fortune, and him being in possession

curious

scent blocker unless you’re trying to hide from wolves or planning something nefarious?” I ask

hiding from wolves,” he says with an eye roll. “I’m

do you

I came across a pack of wolves?”

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thinking it should be obvious.

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we’re provoked. More like a nest of