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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on,” he says quietly. “It’s this way.”

bag from the back

the edge of the mountain top.

with the same precision he does. And the gold flash

tells me his night vision is easily ten times better

and there’s a low hum of different insects.

crunch as we walk, so

some way.

But this wolf won’t reveal anything he isn’t ready to

have to hope that I’m

the ultimate coup, though,

pins it on my father or

Hmm.

uneven stretch of ground and in a flash, he

he’s holding me in

uh, I’m okay.”

grunts and keeps walking.

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glance up as the clouds lift, and moonlight floods this area, showing

bisected by a curving stretch of river.

“It’s beautiful.”

is,” he agrees.

intended to say

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

where we’re

picks