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.

give way, but Axel

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

the mating bond hurt him, he certainly didn’t show it,

did he

assume, since Aaron entrusted him enough to help find

go!” I shout at him,

I’m strong.

thanks to the old Roberts Alpha and his

Axel

my struggles and growls at me, eyes glowing for a

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

I hate this cold,

glad he

him would be a fate worse

I am already familiar

because I want to see my brother, not because you tell me to,” I tell him stubbornly, even though part of me fears

I tug on my arm,

humiliate me, because I’m not expecting it, so I end up falling

down

back. It’ll be quicker,” he orders as if he is an

he even get

say anything, he shifts himself, and then

can tell he’s impatient and disgusted with me, even in

I shift and then obediently follow Axel all

more anxiety twists my stomach into

I’ve got no doubt his traitorous bi ch of

wife is here too.

and fell in love with her- mated her-as if the

instead of simply killing me, had been because he’d been forced to

regularly, giving me updates on Leah’s life

I refused

Aaron

thought he