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.

and my knees give way, but

and I barely have time to recover from the slowly fading pain, before he’s dragging me

certainly didn’t show it, and I’m left wondering if this man can feel anything

is he, even, and how did he come

since Aaron entrusted him enough to help

I shout at

I’m strong.

wolf should be thanks

Axel is

and growls at

and since Aaron is pack Alpha, you will obey him, which means

I hate this cold, arrogant, horrible

he rejected

would

I am

because you tell me to,” I tell him stubbornly, even though part of me fears how

tug on my arm, he

designed to humiliate me, because I’m not expecting it, so I end

down

so we can run back. It’ll be quicker,” he orders

even

shifts himself, and

disgusted with me, even

shame and self-loathing, I shift and then obediently follow Axel all the way back to

closer we get, the more anxiety twists my

back, then I’ve got no

wife is here too.

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 us as children

Roberts Alpha, he made it clear one of the main reasons he’d held me captive instead of simply killing me, had been because he’d been forced to hand his daughter over to Aaron in order

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

refused

came to tell me that Aaron had eventually married Leah,

thought he was