Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 23

The road winds back and forth as we gain elevation. The

mountain is steep enough to ski and it’s heavily wooded. The headlights cast shadows through the pines and fir.

I’ve never been here before.

I wonder if Aaron has.

He brings the vehicle to the mountain top and parks. “Get out,”

he tells me.

slowly unbuckle my belt. It’s significantly colder here than where we’d been and I didn’t think to bring a coat. I don’t have my medications. My phone’s about to die.

This is the type of deserted stretch of forest where you’d go hunting for the weekend.

Or where you’d bury a body.

After the things I’ve said tonight, I have to wonder why Aaron has brought me here.

n a battle of strength against this wolf, there would be no

contest.

2/4

“Come on,” he says quietly. “It’s this way.”

the back of the SUV

through the dark to the edge of

the same precision

easily ten times better than mine. I let him lead

a low

walk, so

some way.

But this wolf won’t reveal anything he isn’t ready to and there is no point in arguing over it.

to hope that I’m not walking to my

be the ultimate coup, though,

father or my

Hmm.

on some uneven stretch of ground

and he’s holding me in

uh, I’m okay.”

and keeps

3/4

up as the clouds lift, and moonlight floods this area, showing too many stars overhead

a curving stretch

“It’s beautiful.”

he

say that out loud.

or so down the trail, there is a flash of reflection. As my eyes adapt more, I see the straight lines of a

that where

and picks up the