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 me

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

didn’t show it, and I’m left wondering

is he, even, and how did he come to be part

assume, since Aaron entrusted him enough to help find

shout at

I’m strong.

than a regular wolf should be thanks to the old Roberts Alpha and his

apparently Axel is

easily subdues my struggles and growls at me, eyes

Aaron wants to see you, and since Aaron is

that instant, I hate this cold,

he rejected

to him would be a fate worse

I am already familiar

to,” I tell him stubbornly, even though part of me fears how he will retaliate for my

on my arm, he

not expecting it, so I end up falling backwards into the

down dispassionately

be quicker,” he orders as if he is an Alpha in his

he even get

shifts himself,

he’s impatient and disgusted with me,

shame and self-loathing, I shift and then obediently follow

we get, the more anxiety twists my

then I’ve got no

wife is here too.

of our enemy, he went and fell in love with her- mated her-as if

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

would come and visit me regularly, giving me updates on Leah’s life

refused to

that Aaron had eventually

thought he