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

have time to recover from the slowly fading

him, he certainly didn’t show it,

he, even, and how did he come to be part of the

men, I assume, since Aaron entrusted him enough to help find

at

I’m strong.

thanks to the

apparently Axel

subdues my struggles and growls at me, eyes glowing for a

Aaron wants to see you, and since Aaron is pack Alpha, you will obey him, which

I hate this cold,

glad he rejected

him would be a fate

I am

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

I tug on my arm,

expecting it, so I end up falling

looks down

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

he even

anything, he shifts himself,

can tell he’s impatient and disgusted

shift and then obediently

the more anxiety twists my stomach

no doubt his

wife is here too.

daughter of our enemy, he went and fell in love with her- mated her-as if the war that killed our parents, the pack who

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

giving me updates on Leah’s life I didn’t

I refused

that Aaron had eventually married Leah, as

he