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

the

the

see with the same precision he does.

eyes tells me his night vision is easily ten times better than mine. I let him lead the

owl calls and there’s a low hum

walk, so this

some way.

where we’re going and more importantly, why. But this wolf won’t

have to hope that I’m not walking to

ultimate coup, though, wouldn’t

pins it on my father or my pack

Hmm.

of ground and in

arm and he’s holding me in

I’m okay.”

grunts and

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area, showing

a curving stretch of river.

“It’s beautiful.”

is,” he

intended to say

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

that where we’re going?”

picks up the pace.