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 this

big duffel bag from the

dark to the edge of the mountain

with the same precision he does. And the gold flash

tells me his night vision is easily ten times better than mine. I

a low hum

stones crunch as we walk, so this roadway is maintained

some way.

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

just have to hope that I’m not

be the ultimate coup, though,

father or my pack in some way.

Hmm.

of ground and in a

arm and he’s holding me in place.

uh, I’m okay.”

grunts and keeps

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this area,

a curving stretch

“It’s beautiful.”

is,” he

intended to say that out loud.

reflection. As my eyes adapt more, I see the straight lines of a cabin, and more glints of the moonlight on

where we’re going?”

and picks