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.

hard being a vampire,” I scoff,

him.

in response. “Probably about as hard as being a

Elder Enclave, just like you have your Council.

to follow, and factions

they’re more important or more pure

straightforward,

all

I can certainly understand that.

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

my arms and

is, I don’t

is too strong to simply walk

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

get another

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 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

curiosity.”

concede that I know exactly

the thing is, Ronan could have ambushed and

first day.

my own thoughts, and

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way out here, plus I hadn’t been able to scent him, so it would have likely been easy for him to get the jump on me

I scent that you were a

suspiciously.

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

blocker,” he replies, dangling

I step forward for a closer

these, but I’ve never seen

died out, they’d made all kinds of magical

items like this.

be worth a fortune, and him being in possession

me even more curious about who he

to hide

wolves,” he says with an

territory. What do you think

lone vampire if I came across a pack of

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tell him, thinking it should be obvious.

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vampires unless we’re provoked. More like a