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

big duffel bag from the back of the SUV and then

the edge of the

the same precision he does. And the gold

his wolf’s eyes tells me his night vision is easily ten

owl calls and there’s a low hum of

stones crunch as we walk, so this roadway is maintained in

some way.

I want to ask where we’re going and more importantly, why. But this wolf won’t reveal anything he isn’t ready to and there

to hope that I’m not walking

ultimate coup, though,

pins it on my father or my pack

Hmm.

slide on some uneven stretch of ground and in a

he’s holding me in

uh, I’m

and keeps

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as the clouds lift, and moonlight floods this area,

curving stretch

“It’s beautiful.”

he

intended to say that out loud.

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

where

nods and picks up the pace.