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.

even thought this was a good

and then I

That bi ch.

Leah’s idea?” I demand,

Of course it was.

wants to humiliate

when she put the idea to Aaron, she made it sound like she cared about me and my standing within the

wants to use me to make herself look

believe Aaron doesn’t see how manipulative she

after all the loss we’ve suffered-recently and right back to our own parents. We need to let

to us.”

say stubbornly, crossing my

me

all you’re doing is acting like

Axel puts in from where he’s still leaning against

shoots him a narrow-eyed

but at the

anyway, what right does Axel have, putting in his

gets no say in

So stop speaking. I don’t have to

flash and his body

takes a deep breath like he’s mustering

patience as he can.

And that sharp pang of hurt

growls, injecting a powerful note of Alpha power into his voice that makes me flinch back.

won’t like the

the room, while I sag against the nearby counter, feeling like I’ve been run

not kidding,” Axel drawls. “People

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

news makes me feel a

treated

it

frowns. “It was f cked up, Emily. And Aaron regretted it afterwards. He did it because he thought she

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

sees me as selfish. Some childish, selfish

doesn’t know what

I’d be trapped and left to starve to death. The days left alone with nothing

away inside