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

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

show it, and I’m left wondering if this man can

did he

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

shout at him,

I’m strong.

a regular wolf should be thanks to the old Roberts Alpha

apparently Axel is

easily subdues my struggles and growls at

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

instant, I hate this cold, arrogant,

glad he

to him would be

I am already

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

I tug on

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

down dispassionately at

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

he even get the

anything, he shifts himself, and

can tell he’s impatient and disgusted with me,

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 doubt his

wife is here too.

the 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 were responsible for all the misery inflicted on us as children

me, had been because he’d been forced to hand his daughter

and visit me regularly, giving me updates on Leah’s

refused to

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

he was