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

from the back of the

through the dark to the

with the same precision

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

calls and there’s a low hum

so

some way.

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

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

be the ultimate coup, though,

it on my father or my

Hmm.

slide on some uneven stretch of ground and

arm and he’s holding

I’m

and

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

a curving

“It’s beautiful.”

is,” he agrees.

to say that

the trail, there is a flash of reflection. As my eyes adapt more, I

where we’re

nods and picks up the