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.

2/4

he says quietly. “It’s

big duffel bag from the back of the SUV

dark to the edge of the mountain top.

same precision

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

there’s a low

as we walk, so this roadway

some way.

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

that I’m

would be the ultimate coup,

my father

Hmm.

of ground and in a

holding

uh, I’m

grunts and keeps walking.

3/4

clouds lift, and moonlight floods this area, showing too many stars overhead to count and a

a curving stretch

“It’s beautiful.”

he agrees.

say that out loud.

adapt more, I see the straight lines of a cabin, and more glints of the moonlight on glass windows.

that where we’re

and picks up the