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.

of the

Maybe.

phone. My dad

you or to inquire after me. I turned over every

in my

just got a confirmation

My stomach sinks.

need to stop

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the forest and the scents change. I

it must be to smell the pine and birch,

always wanted my own wolf

see and smell and taste and feel with such a

to the world

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

I was gasping for breath and my muscles shook.

I walk now.

Slowly.

the breaks in the canopy where the sun shines through.

of life that is

mansion when I hear the

of something big,

An

flash of gray is

a huge

with darker tones

he’s even with me.

a bark and then an inquisitive twist of his head, his

of me wants to rail about Jessica. To

not about to give him an out when all he can do is