Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

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EMILY

I end up spending more time than I probably should with Ronan and by the time I make the long run back to Rathborn pack lands,

I’m in a better mood than I’ve been for a long time.

He’s just so easy to talk to, and I got to ask some of the burning

questions about vampires that I’d needed clarified.

If Ronan thought my questions were odd or extremely specific, he

didn’t say so.

Part of me wonders if Ronan is someone to whom I can tell the

truth of what I am.

But immediately, the part of me that loathes myself and fears

rejection shies away from the idea.

Ronan is a new, neutral friend, not influenced by my distant past

growing up as daughter of the Alpha in the Rathborn, or my recent

past and the terrible things that happened to me.

I don’t want him to start looking at me differently–or worse, start looking at me like I’m some freak–so I’m not going to tell him the

truth.

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At least, not any time soon.

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It’s nice to think if we remain friends long enough, I might be able to tell him one day and he’ll not only accept me, but maybe there are ways in which he can help me.

Of course, I have to make sure no one ever, ever finds out about

Ronan.

A wolf being friends with a vampire?

They’d never understand it. And they’d definitely never accept it.

up to no good and forbade me

ever seeing

shiver. Axel is the Slayer, so he might

let that happen.

to let that

mine right now, and I’m not

lope through the woods in wolf

register that I’ve just crossed over the territory line back into Rathborn pack lands when this huge form streaks out

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over, and it’s not until I find myself pinned to the ground that I

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my jaws at him, but he

avoids me.

himself off me and then shifts.

Emily,” he tells me in a furious voice as he gets to his

“You will explain

defying him and simply darting off into the woods.

far

before he ran

he’s already pissed off

I run, it’ll just enrage him further and probably make my inevitable punishment

I shift, whatever punishment he has in store for me, it will have been worth it after everything I found out about Ronan, ending with the feeling

I shift and rise to my feet.

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I ask, crossing my arms.

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he repeats incredulously, as if he’s so angry, he doesn’t even know what to do with himself. “Your impudence

knows no bounds.”

but before I can say anything in response to that positively Victorian–sounding statement, he

into him.

scenting me while I try to fend him

not your mate!” I wriggle out of

of course he

smell Ronan on me, not with the scent blocker

was wearing.

could barely scent Ronan myself when he was

front of me.

been with another male. The same one I scented on you last time!” he shouts

angry

no right to be

he so callously rejected

him dismissively, and try to step

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