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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says quietly. “It’s this way.”

bag from the back

dark to the edge of the mountain top.

same precision he does.

eyes tells me his night vision is easily ten

low hum of

we walk, so this roadway is maintained

some way.

going and more importantly, why. But this wolf won’t reveal anything he isn’t ready to and there is no point in arguing

just have to hope that I’m not walking to my

the ultimate

it on my father or my pack in some

Hmm.

some uneven stretch of ground and in

holding

uh, I’m

grunts and

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this area, showing too many stars overhead to count

curving stretch

“It’s beautiful.”

is,” he

hadn’t intended to say

is a flash of reflection. As my eyes adapt more, I see the straight lines of a

that where

picks up