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 scoff, not sure I

him.

shrugs in response. “Probably about as hard as

Enclave, just like you have your Council. There

rules we’re supposed to follow, and factions vying

lineages that claim they’re more

always straightforward, and sometimes

to escape all that

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

listening,” I tell him, but I cross my arms and keep myself tense, ready to flee if

don’t want

strong to simply walk away.

to ask, and Ronan

get another

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.”

to concede that I know exactly what that feels

is, Ronan could have ambushed and killed me that

first day.

own thoughts, and I’d never considered

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been able to scent him, so it would have likely been easy for him to get the jump on me and kill me before I’d

I scent that you were a

suspiciously.

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

blocker,” he replies, dangling the talisman.

thinking, I step forward for a closer look.

but I’ve never seen

had died out, they’d made all kinds

items like this.

fortune, and him being in

even more curious about

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

from wolves,” he

vampire territory. What do you think would

vampire if I came

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we’re provoked.