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.

my knees give way, but Axel doesn’t let

have time to recover from

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

he, even, and how did he come

assume, since Aaron

shout at

I’m strong.

wolf should be thanks

apparently Axel is

struggles and growls at me, eyes glowing for a

to see you, and since Aaron

I hate this cold,

he rejected

mated to him would be a fate worse than

am already

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

tug on my

expecting it, so I end up falling backwards into the

down dispassionately

It’ll be quicker,” he orders

does he even get the

can say anything, he shifts

disgusted with me, even in

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

we get, the more anxiety twists my

no doubt his traitorous bi

wife is here too.

not only did Aaron marry 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

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

and visit me regularly, giving me updates on Leah’s life I didn’t

refused

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

thought he