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.

vampire,” I

him.

in response. “Probably about as hard as being a wolf.

our Elder Enclave, just like

to follow, and factions

they’re more important or more

always straightforward, and

to escape all that stuff.”

I can certainly

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

my arms and keep myself tense, ready

is, I don’t want

strong to

are things I want to know about vampires, questions I want to ask, and Ronan is right here, willing and talking to me.

never get another

first day, I almost 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 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.”

know exactly

have ambushed and killed me

first day.

in my own thoughts, and I’d never

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it would have likely

you were a vampire?” I

suspiciously.

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

replies, dangling the

thinking, I step forward for a closer look.

these, but I’ve never seen one before.

they’d made

items like this.

must be worth a fortune, and him being in possession of

me even more curious about

trying to hide from wolves or

he says with an eye roll.

do you think would happen

I came across a

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him, thinking it should

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