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 way.”

a big duffel bag from the back of the

to the edge

can’t see with the same precision he does. And the gold flash

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

there’s a low hum of different insects. Gravel

as we walk, so this

some way.

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

just have to hope that I’m not walking to my own

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

pins it on my father or

Hmm.

slide on some uneven stretch of ground and in

he’s holding

uh, I’m

and keeps

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lift, and moonlight floods this area, showing too many stars

curving stretch

“It’s beautiful.”

is,” he agrees.

intended to say that out

of reflection. As my eyes adapt more,

where

and picks up the pace.