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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he says quietly. “It’s this way.”

from the back of

the dark to the edge of the mountain

can’t see with the same precision he

ten times better than mine. I

there’s a low hum of different insects. Gravel

stones crunch as we walk, so this

some way.

I want to ask where we’re going and more importantly, why. But this wolf won’t reveal anything he isn’t ready to and there is no point in arguing over

hope that I’m not walking

the ultimate coup, though, wouldn’t

pins it on my father or

Hmm.

of ground and in a

arm and he’s holding me in place.

I’m

grunts and

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lift, and moonlight floods this area, showing too

curving

“It’s beautiful.”

he agrees.

say

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

where we’re going?”

and picks