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.

up to no good and forbade

ever seeing him again.

realize with a shiver. Axel is the Slayer,

can’t let that happen.

let

that’s just mine right now, and I’m not going to give him up or

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

back into Rathborn pack lands when this huge form

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to the

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teeth, snapping my jaws

avoids me.

himself off me and

he tells me in a furious voice

“You will explain

simply darting off into the

bigger, stronger and far more skilled than

get far before

off enough as

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

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

shift and rise to my

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want?” I ask, crossing my

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

knows no bounds.”

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

me into

I try

not your mate!” I wriggle

course he looks

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

was wearing.

could barely scent Ronan myself when he was

front of me.

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

was angry and jealous.

has no right to be

he so callously rejected me.

tell him

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