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.

so hard being a vampire,” I scoff, not sure

him.

in response. “Probably about as hard as being a wolf.

our Elder Enclave, just like you have your Council. There

to follow,

that claim they’re more

Things aren’t always straightforward, and

escape all that stuff.”

certainly understand

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running back to the safety of Rathborn land, but for better or worse, it

listening,” I tell him, but I cross my arms and

I don’t want to

too strong

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

get another opportunity like this one.

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

curiosity.”

have to concede that I know exactly what

thing is, Ronan could have ambushed and killed

first day.

my own thoughts, and I’d

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

you were a vampire?” I ask him

suspiciously.

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

he replies, dangling the talisman.

step forward

these, but I’ve never seen one

witches had died out, they’d made all kinds of

items like this.

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

curious about who he is.

unless you’re trying to hide from

wolves,” he says with an eye roll.

What do you think would happen

I came across a pack of wolves?”

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