Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 292

EMILY

“You can’t make me!” I scream, hurling the glass of water I was holding across the kitchen.

It smashes into the wall right next to Axel’s shoulder, but he doesn’t so much as flinch.

Even when he gets rained on by water and shards of glass.

He just stares at me in bored contemplation, like he would literally rather be anywhere else than stuck in this kitchen with

me right now.

Aaron flicks his hand and then the chef and other wolves who

were assisting him in the huge, luxuriously appointed, modern kitchen all scramble to flee the room, leaving me alone with

Aaron.

Well, apart from Axel.

Who doesn’t do anything other than to idly flick a shard of glass off his shoulder.

“Emily,” Aaron says in that overly patient voice I’m starting to

hate. “This party is for you. To officially welcome you back into the pack. There are people who haven’t seen you yet, who

will want to catch up with you. You’re the daughter of the last Alpha, the sister of the current Alpha. You’re important to the morale of the pack, and you will act accordingly.”

I want to pull my hair until it starts coming out in clumps.

What is there to even celebrate?

I’m not the same girl who walked out of this house ten years ago, the last morning before I was abducted.

I’m a freak now.

A monster.

I’m not fit to be part of this pack.

a good idea?” I demand

expression hardens and then

That bi ch.

I demand, furious.

Of course it was.

to humiliate

put the idea to Aaron, she made it sound like she cared

use me to make herself

doesn’t

we’ve suffered-recently and right back to our own parents. We need to let go of the past and embrace a new

to us.”

say stubbornly, crossing my arms. “Have

me

you’re doing is acting like a

where he’s still leaning against the wall,

narrow-eyed look as

at the same time, doesn’t

does Axel have, putting in

gets no say in what I

you, rogue. So stop speaking. I don’t have to accept my enemies

and his body tenses. But he

takes a deep breath like he’s mustering as

patience as he can.

I won’t apologize. And that sharp pang of hurt because my brother sees me as some burden?

attend,” Aaron growls, injecting a powerful note of Alpha power into his voice that makes me flinch back. “I love you. And I’m trying. We are all trying. But kindly remember I am

won’t like the

out of the room, while I sag against the nearby

not kidding,” Axel drawls. “People around these

he used to punish Leah real bad when she used to defy him. Even locked her up and

makes me

glad Aaron treated Leah

it

And Aaron regretted it afterwards. He did

hand through his hair and then rolls his eyes when another piece of glass shakes free. “I didn’t mention it to suggest it was okay or to make you happy. I’m just reminding you that your brother can be cold and calculating when he has to be. Don’t push him to that, Emily. It’ll hurt him more than it

me think that Axel sees me as selfish. Some childish, selfish woman who’s just acting out on

know what

trapped and left to starve to death. The days left alone with nothing to do except

inside