Bad Love An Alpha’s Regret

Chapter 52
Leah’s body arches, bowing so sharply it’s a wonder her spine doesn’t crack completely.
I wince.
Around me, the wolves gathered sit on their haunches. They watch. Others shift back to their human forms. Tobin comes and stands a few feet away from me. Karolina, the wolf from the Council, she and three other females move to the opposite side.
They’re na ked. All of them.
Blood stains skin and the flames from the fire flicker over their
bodies.
Leah screams.
A few of the wolves wince.
Tobin is expressionless. His eyes are pale and cold and unflinching.
Karolina is quizzical, her face reminds me of a hawk, even her movements seem sharp. She watches Leah like a bird-of-prey.
“It’s all right. I’ve got you,” I whisper.

Leah whimpers, but doesn’t cry.
The pain of absorbing Alpha powers is indescribable.
I thought I was going to di e on the day I obtained mine.
And I was a wolf in my prime.
Leah… she is human and si ck.
I kiss her head gently and hold her tighter. She can’t be si ck. I can’t wrap my mind around that.
She shudders and if I could, I’d take her pain onto me.
My arms are wrapped around her so she can’t flail, but her body is bucking and convulsing and I’m having to exert far more force than I want to. Just when I think the worst of it has passed, another round comes.
At one point, James approaches me with a tree branch. It’s maybe three-quarters of an inch in diameter. He snaps the limb and hands me a piece that’s maybe five or six inches long.
“For her teeth,” he says.
Oh. Yeah. With the way she’s clenching her jaw there’s a chance it’ll crack or she’ll shatter her molars.
“Open, honey,” I whisper, trying to give her something to bite down on. I force the stick into her mo uth and the pressure is
astonishing.
She’s sweating and so am I. And the next wave that crashes over her is more powerful than the one before. I glance at James, he subtly shoulders his way closer and the rest of my men close in in a tighter wall behind me.
I’d push back Tobin and his pack, if I could. Karolina too.
Because we’re all feeling this influx of power.
And as Alphas… we crave more of it.
Leah is human. And very vulnerable.
Normally the person receiving such power would shift during this ceremony because the wolf side has a far greater threshold for pain and the connection to the wolf-and its pack-is amplified during it.