Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

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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.

probably assume he was up to no good and forbade

ever seeing him again.

worse, I realize with a shiver. Axel is the Slayer, so he

let

to let that

mine right now, and I’m not going to give him up or put him in danger.

lost in thought as I lope through the woods

I’ve just crossed over the territory line back into Rathborn pack lands

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

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teeth, snapping my

avoids me.

he raises himself off me and then shifts.

tells me in a furious voice as he gets to

will explain

him and simply darting off into

far more skilled than I

doubt I’d get far before he ran

he’s already pissed off enough as it

and probably

think as 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 that we’re growing closer, and maybe he can understand me in a way

I shift and rise to

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I ask, crossing

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

knows no bounds.”

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

into him.

he’s scenting me while I try to

doing that?! I’m not your mate!” I wriggle out

of course he looks

he can’t smell Ronan on me, not with the scent blocker

was wearing.

scent Ronan myself when

front of me.

on you last time!” he shouts

he was angry and jealous.

right to be

so

tell him dismissively, and try

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