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

barely have time to recover from the slowly fading pain,

hurt him, he certainly didn’t show it, and I’m left wondering if this

and how did he come to be part

top men, I assume, since Aaron entrusted him enough

I shout at him, pulling

I’m strong.

regular wolf should be thanks

Axel is

easily subdues my struggles and growls at me,

the house, Emily. Now. Aaron wants to see you, and since Aaron is pack Alpha, you

instant, I hate this cold, arrogant, horrible

glad he

being mated to him would

I am

tell me to,” I tell

I tug on my

expecting it, so I end up falling backwards into the

down dispassionately

can run back. It’ll be quicker,” he orders as if he is an Alpha in

even

say anything, he shifts himself, and

and disgusted with me, even in

and then obediently follow Axel all the way

closer we get, the more anxiety twists my stomach

Aaron is back, then I’ve got no

wife is here too.

of our 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 the misery inflicted on

captive instead of simply killing me, had been because he’d been forced to hand his daughter over to Aaron

and visit me regularly, giving me updates on Leah’s

refused

that Aaron had

he