Bad Love An Alpha’s Regret

Chapter 12

perimeter. Everyone in this pack from the Alpha down to the lowest pack member must take a turn at patrolling

the property. We’re in an isolated area and his pack owns

hundreds of square miles of property with the whole western.

side flanking a state park, but we can never be too sure.

Humans are everywhere.

And so are enemy wolves.

I can’t shift and run the way the rest of the wolves here do, but I know the game trails well enough.

The fresh air fills my lungs carrying the scent of spring and fresh rain and lilacs. Those were my mother’s favorites, and I

planted them all around the main house.

Before I cut onto the southern trail, I turn back to the mansion.

It sits like a behemoth on the hillside, and in the distance

are rows and rows of neat little houses and cabins. Some

two hundred families live and work in this area and the

surrounding countryside. I wasn’t born here, but it feels like

home.

the time.

Maybe.

cell phone. My dad hasn’t called. Not

to inquire after me. I turned over every dollar

and saved in my lifetime.

just got a confirmation of receipt.

My stomach sinks.

need to stop

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enter the forest and the scents change. I can

it must be to smell the pine and birch, the moist

always wanted my own wolf

and smell and taste and feel with

connection to the world around me.

these trails. I’d run as fast and as far as

was gasping for breath and my

I walk now.

Slowly.

Looking up at the breaks in the canopy where the sun

circle of life that is both fleeting and

mile from the mansion when I hear

fast beat of

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gray

is a

darker tones along

He runs until he’s

a bark and then an inquisitive twist of his head, his wolf’s expression of

of me wants to rail about Jessica. To

answer. And I’m not about to give him an out when all he can