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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quietly.

bag from the back of the SUV and

to the edge of

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

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

and there’s a low hum of

crunch as we walk, 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

that I’m not walking

the ultimate coup, though, wouldn’t it?

on my father or my

Hmm.

slide on some uneven stretch of ground and in a

arm and he’s holding

uh, I’m

grunts and keeps walking.

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and moonlight floods this area, showing

by a curving stretch of

“It’s beautiful.”

he

say that out loud.

eyes adapt more, I see the straight lines of a cabin, and more glints of the moonlight on

that where we’re going?”

nods and picks up