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.

it’s so hard being a vampire,” I scoff, not sure I

him.

in response. “Probably about as hard as

Elder Enclave, just like you

follow, and

claim they’re more important or more pure

always straightforward, and sometimes I

to escape all

can certainly understand that.

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

but I cross my arms and keep myself tense, ready to flee

don’t want to

is too strong

to know about vampires, questions I want to ask, and

another opportunity like this

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

curiosity.”

that I know exactly what that feels like.

thing is, Ronan could have

first day.

lost in my own thoughts, and I’d never considered a

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plus I hadn’t been able to scent him, so it would have likely been easy for him to get the

scent that you were

suspiciously.

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

he replies, dangling the talisman.

I step forward for a

I’ve never seen one

had died out, they’d made all kinds

items like this.

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

more curious about

need a scent blocker unless you’re trying to hide

wolves,” he

territory. What do you think would

came across

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him, thinking it should

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vampires unless we’re provoked. More like a nest