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

me up, and I barely have time to recover

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

he

assume, since Aaron entrusted him enough to

at him, pulling against

I’m strong.

be thanks to the

apparently Axel is

struggles and growls at me, eyes

Emily. Now. Aaron wants to see you, and since Aaron is pack Alpha, you will obey him, which means you will obey

that instant, I hate

he

him would be

am already familiar

to see my brother, not because you tell me to,” I tell him stubbornly, even

on my arm, he lets me

to humiliate me, because I’m not expecting

down

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

does he even get

I can say anything, he shifts himself, and then

disgusted with me, even in

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

closer we get, the more anxiety twists my

is back, then I’ve got no

wife is here too.

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 in order to maintain

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

refused to

he came to tell me that Aaron had eventually married Leah, as per the

he