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

a big duffel bag from the back of the SUV and then

the dark to the edge

see with the same precision he does.

wolf’s eyes tells me his night vision is easily ten times better than mine. I

calls and there’s a low hum

as we walk, so this roadway is maintained in

some way.

won’t reveal anything he isn’t

hope that I’m not

ultimate coup, though,

it on my father or my pack

Hmm.

stretch of ground and in

arm and he’s holding me in place.

I’m

grunts and

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this area, showing too many stars overhead

curving stretch

“It’s beautiful.”

he agrees.

say that

more, I see the straight

where

and picks up the