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.

give way, but Axel

dispassionately holds me up, and I barely have time to recover from the slowly

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

and how did he come to be part of the Rathborn

since Aaron entrusted him enough

me go!” I shout at him, pulling against

I’m strong.

than a regular wolf should be thanks to the

apparently Axel is

my struggles and growls at me,

Emily. Now. Aaron wants to see you, and since Aaron is pack

that instant, I hate this cold, arrogant, horrible

glad he rejected

mated to him would be a

am already

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

I tug on my arm, he

not expecting it, so I end up falling backwards into

down dispassionately

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

he even

I can say anything, he shifts himself,

can tell he’s impatient and disgusted with

then obediently follow Axel

get, the more anxiety twists

Aaron is 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

made it clear one of the main reasons he’d held me captive instead of simply killing me, had been because he’d been forced to hand his daughter over to Aaron in order to maintain a

me updates on

refused

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

thought he