Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 332

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, not

him.

as hard

Elder Enclave, just like

we’re supposed to follow, and factions

more important or more pure

Things aren’t always straightforward, and

escape all that stuff.”

certainly

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

and keep myself tense, ready to flee if I need

truth is, I don’t want to leave.

too strong to simply

about vampires, questions I want to

get another opportunity like this one.

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

curiosity.”

have to concede that I know exactly what that feels like.

is, Ronan could have ambushed

first day.

in my own thoughts, and I’d never

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out here, plus I hadn’t been able to scent him, so it would have likely been

that you were a vampire?” I ask

suspiciously.

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

replies, dangling

step forward

heard of these, but I’ve never seen

died out, they’d made all kinds of magical

items like this.

and him being in

curious about who he is.

need a scent blocker unless you’re trying to

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

do

if I came

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I tell him, thinking it should be

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