Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 335

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.

was up to no good and

seeing him

a shiver. Axel is the Slayer, so

let that happen.

refuse to let that happen.

the one good thing that’s just mine right now, and I’m not going to

lost in thought as I lope through the woods in wolf form,

territory line back into Rathborn pack lands when

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until I find myself pinned to the ground that I register

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whine and bare my teeth, snapping my jaws

avoids me.

himself

he tells me in a furious voice as

will explain yourself.”

about defying him and simply

Axel is bigger, stronger and far more skilled than

before he ran me down.

he’s already pissed off enough as it is.

him further and probably

everything I found out about Ronan, ending with the feeling that we’re growing closer,

and rise to my feet.

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want?” I ask, crossing

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want?” he repeats incredulously, as if he’s so angry, he doesn’t even

knows no bounds.”

anything in response to that positively Victorian–sounding statement, he grabs me

into him.

I try to

that?! I’m not your mate!” I wriggle

course he looks

smell Ronan on me, not with the scent blocker he

was wearing.

Ronan myself when he was standing

front of me.

last time!” he shouts at

he was angry and

right to be

he so callously rejected me.

imagining things,” I tell him

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