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.

he was up to no

ever seeing him

with a shiver. Axel is the Slayer, so he might simply kill

can’t let

refuse to let

right now, and I’m not going to give him up

I lope through the woods

crossed over the territory line back into Rathborn pack lands when this

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

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teeth, snapping my

avoids me.

moment, he raises himself off me and then

me in a furious voice as he gets

“You will explain

think about defying him and simply darting off

bigger, stronger and far more skilled

I’d get far before he ran

off enough

enrage him further and probably make my inevitable punishment even worse.

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

shift and rise to my

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I ask,

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

knows no bounds.”

face at him, but before I can say anything in response

into

he’s scenting me while I try to fend him off.

doing that?! I’m not your mate!”

but of course he looks angrier now.

can’t smell Ronan on me, not

was wearing.

Ronan myself when he was standing right

front of me.

last time!” he shouts at me, and if I didn’t know any better,

was angry and

no right to

so

imagining things,” I tell him dismissively, and try

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