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 sure I believe

him.

shrugs in response. “Probably about as hard as

Elder Enclave, just like you have your Council.

to follow, and factions vying for power,

more important or more pure than

Things aren’t always straightforward,

escape all that

certainly understand that.

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

my arms and keep myself tense,

don’t want

is too strong

things I want to know about vampires, questions I want to ask, and Ronan is right here,

get another opportunity like

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

curiosity.”

have to concede that I know exactly what that feels

Ronan could have ambushed and

first day.

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

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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 was there.

I scent that you were a vampire?” I

suspiciously.

his shirt, revealing a pendant symbol, and a tiny glass vial with

replies, dangling the

thinking, I step forward for a

I’ve never

had died out, they’d made all

items like this.

a fortune, and him being in possession of it

even more curious about who

to hide from wolves or planning something nefarious?”

from wolves,” he says with an eye

What do you think

if I came across a

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I tell him, thinking it should be obvious. “Wolves

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