Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 287

EMILY

The stranger-Axel-is cold and indifferent.

His expression is harsh and unforgiving as he stares at me.

Could my wolf be wrong?

How can this man be our mate?

He stands before me, unfeeling and unsympathetic, like a statue of ice.

“I told you not to say it,” he growls at me, and I want to run from him, but he’s holding my arm in a bruising grip.

“I-I’m sorry,” I stutter out, wishing I could take it back.

“Since you’re so insistent on knowing,” he says, tone cutting and caustic. “Yes, it does seem like you’re my mate. But I do not accept it. I do not accept you.”

I flinch and feel myself shrinking.

Of course he doesn’t accept it.

Or me.

I’m damaged goods.

I spent ten years being locked up.

And even though no one knows my secret, I’m dangerous, broken and unlovable.

“Are you rejecting me?” I whisper, and already I can feel the pain of our mate bond tearing jaggedly apart.

“Yes, Emily. I reject you.”

The ache turns into a sharp shot of pain like an elastic pulled too tight and suddenly snapped.

cry out, and my knees give way, but Axel doesn’t let

time to recover from the slowly fading pain, before he’s dragging me

the mating bond hurt him, he certainly didn’t show it, and I’m left wondering

and how did he come to be part

since Aaron entrusted him enough to help

at

I’m strong.

thanks to

Axel is

struggles and growls at me,

wants to see you, and since Aaron is pack Alpha, you will obey

that instant, I hate this cold, arrogant,

glad he rejected

would be a fate

I am already

not because you tell me to,” I tell him stubbornly, even though part of me

tug on my arm, he lets

to humiliate me, because I’m not expecting it, so I end up falling backwards into the

down

run back. It’ll be quicker,” he orders as

does he even get the

say anything, he shifts himself, and then stands there staring

and disgusted

and then obediently follow Axel all the way back

more anxiety twists my

I’ve got no doubt

wife is here too.

enemy, he went and fell in love with her- mated her-as if the war that killed our parents, the pack who were responsible for all

killing me, had been because he’d been forced to hand his daughter over to Aaron in order to maintain a peace he didn’t

me regularly, giving me updates on Leah’s life I didn’t

I refused to

that Aaron had eventually married Leah,

he was