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.

2/4

says quietly. “It’s this way.”

a big duffel bag from the back of the

through the dark to the edge of the mountain

see with the same precision he

his night vision is easily ten times better than

and there’s a low hum of different

so this roadway is maintained

some way.

But this wolf won’t reveal anything he isn’t ready to and there is no point in arguing over it.

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

ultimate coup, though,

on my father or my pack in some

Hmm.

some uneven stretch of ground and in a flash, he

and he’s holding

I’m okay.”

grunts and keeps

3/4

up as the clouds lift, and moonlight floods this area, showing too many stars overhead to count and a

a curving stretch of

“It’s beautiful.”

is,” he

hadn’t intended to say that

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

nods and picks up the pace.