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 doesn’t let

I barely have time to recover from the slowly fading

it, and I’m left wondering if this

how did he come to be part

Aaron entrusted him enough

shout at him,

I’m strong.

thanks to the old Roberts

Axel

growls at me, eyes glowing for

you, and since Aaron is pack Alpha, you will obey

instant, I hate this cold, arrogant, horrible

he

mated to him would be a fate worse

I am

I

tug on

it’s calculating, designed to humiliate me, because I’m not expecting

looks down dispassionately at

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

he even

can say anything, he shifts

can tell he’s impatient and disgusted with me, even in

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

we get, the more

Aaron is back, then I’ve got no doubt his traitorous

wife is here too.

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

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

regularly, giving me updates

I refused to

Aaron

thought he was