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 way.”

a big duffel bag from the back

through the dark to the edge

with the same precision he does. And the gold

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

calls and there’s a low hum of different insects.

crunch as we walk, so this roadway is maintained

some way.

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

to hope that I’m not

be the ultimate coup, though, wouldn’t it?

kills me, pins it on my father or my pack in

Hmm.

slide on some uneven stretch of ground and in a

he’s holding me in

I’m okay.”

grunts and keeps walking.

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

curving stretch of

“It’s beautiful.”

he

hadn’t intended to say that out loud.

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

where

and picks up the pace.