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

duffel bag from the

through the dark to the edge of

same precision he does. And the gold

vision is easily ten times better than mine.

calls and there’s a low hum of different

we walk, so this roadway is maintained in

some way.

want to ask where we’re going and more importantly, why. But this wolf won’t reveal anything he isn’t

have to hope that I’m not walking to my own grave.

would be the ultimate coup, though,

on my father or

Hmm.

of ground and in a flash,

and he’s holding me in place.

uh, I’m okay.”

grunts and

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

curving stretch of

“It’s beautiful.”

is,” he

intended to say that

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

that where we’re

nods and picks