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,”

him.

“Probably about as

like you have your

to follow,

that claim they’re more important or more pure than

aren’t always straightforward,

escape all

I can certainly understand

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

and keep myself tense, ready to flee if

is, I don’t want

too strong

to ask, and Ronan is right here, willing and

another opportunity

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

curiosity.”

concede that I know exactly what

could have

first day.

own thoughts,

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the 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 and kill me before I’d even realized he

you were

suspiciously.

and pulls it out of his shirt,

replies, dangling

forward for a closer

of these, but I’ve never seen one

had died out, they’d made all kinds of

items like this.

worth a fortune, and him being in

me even more curious

to hide from wolves or planning something nefarious?” I

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

territory. What do you

I came across a

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tell him, thinking it should be

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provoked. More like a