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.

bag from the back of the SUV

the dark to the

precision he does. And the gold flash

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

a low hum of

crunch as we walk, so

some way.

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

to hope that I’m not walking to my

be the ultimate coup, though, wouldn’t

it on my father

Hmm.

uneven stretch of ground and in a flash, he

arm and he’s holding me in place.

I’m okay.”

grunts and keeps walking.

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area, showing too

curving stretch of

“It’s beautiful.”

he

say

or so down the trail, there is a flash of reflection. As my eyes adapt more,

that where we’re

and picks up