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

it,

he come to be part of the Rathborn

since Aaron entrusted him enough to help

shout at

I’m strong.

should be thanks

Axel

growls at

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

I hate this cold, arrogant,

he

him would be

I am already familiar

I tell him stubbornly, even though part of me fears

on my arm, he lets

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

down dispassionately at

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

he even get the

he shifts himself, and then stands

disgusted with me, even in wolf

then obediently follow

we get, the more anxiety twists my

back, then I’ve got no doubt his traitorous bi

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

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

giving me updates

refused

tell me that Aaron had eventually married Leah, as per

he