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 pain, before

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

how did he come to

I assume, since Aaron entrusted him enough to help find

shout at

I’m strong.

thanks to the old Roberts Alpha and

apparently Axel is

my struggles and growls at me, eyes glowing for a

go back to the house, Emily. Now. Aaron wants to see you, and since Aaron is pack Alpha, you

I hate this cold, arrogant,

he

to him would be a fate worse than

am already

tell me to,” I tell

I tug on my arm, he lets me

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

down dispassionately at

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

does he even

shifts himself, and then stands there

he’s impatient and disgusted with me, even

burning with shame and self-loathing, I shift and then obediently follow Axel all the way back

more anxiety twists my stomach

I’ve got no doubt his traitorous bi ch

wife is here too.

after everything, not only did Aaron marry the daughter of our enemy, he went and fell in love with her- mated her-as

me, had been because he’d been forced to hand his daughter over to Aaron in order to maintain a peace he didn’t even

regularly, giving me

I refused to

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

he was