Bad Love An Alpha’s Regret

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.

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quietly. “It’s

duffel bag from the back of the

through the dark to the edge of

with the same precision he does. And

easily ten times better than mine. I let

low

walk, so this roadway is maintained

some way.

importantly, why. But this wolf won’t reveal anything he isn’t ready to

have to hope that I’m not walking

would be the ultimate

father or

Hmm.

stretch of ground and in

and he’s holding me

uh, I’m okay.”

and keeps

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floods this area, showing too many stars overhead to count and a

bisected by a curving

“It’s beautiful.”

is,” he

to say

mile or so down the trail, there is a flash of reflection. As my eyes adapt more, I see the straight lines of a cabin, and more glints of the moonlight on glass windows.

where we’re

picks up the pace.