Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 332

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.

so hard being a vampire,” I scoff, not sure

him.

as hard as being a wolf.

like you have your Council. There

follow, and factions vying for

lineages that claim they’re more important or more pure than

Things aren’t always straightforward, and sometimes I

all that stuff.”

certainly understand

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land, but for better or worse, it seems I’m at least willing to hear

tell him, but I cross my arms and keep myself

don’t

is too strong to

want to know about vampires, questions I want to ask, and Ronan is right

never get another

Something in me wanted to talk to you, to know what had made you feel that way, to know what had sent you running so far out of pack territory onto public human lands on your own. I didn’t have any ulterior motive, apart from my own

curiosity.”

have to concede that I know exactly what that feels like.

the thing is, Ronan could have ambushed and killed me

first day.

so lost in my own thoughts, and

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it would have likely been easy for

were a vampire?” I ask

suspiciously.

his neck and pulls it out of his shirt, revealing a pendant symbol,

replies, dangling the talisman.

I step forward for a closer

these, but I’ve

they’d

items like this.

worth a fortune, and him being in possession

curious about who he is.

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

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

territory. What do you think

I came across a pack of wolves?”

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I tell him, thinking it should

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vampires unless we’re provoked.