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

and

That bi ch.

was Leah’s idea?” I demand,

Of course it was.

wants to

it sound like she cared about me and my standing within

wants to use me to make

believe Aaron doesn’t see how

idea,” Aaron says through a tight jaw. “The point is that the pack needs this after all the loss we’ve suffered-recently and right back to our own parents. We need to let go of the past and embrace

to us.”

I say stubbornly, crossing my arms. “Have

leave me out

is acting like a

still leaning against the wall, sounding

a narrow-eyed

want the input, but at the same time, doesn’t

what right does Axel

say in what

glare at him. “This doesn’t concern you, rogue. So stop speaking. I don’t have to accept my enemies any more than I have to accept you trailing my every move like

and his body tenses. But

breath like he’s mustering

patience as he can.

pang of hurt because my brother sees me as some burden?

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

won’t like

and marches out of the room, while I sag against the nearby counter,

Axel drawls. “People

used to defy him. Even locked her up and

me

glad Aaron treated

it and

Emily. And Aaron regretted it afterwards. He did it because he thought she was

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

as selfish. Some childish, selfish woman who’s just acting out on

know what I’ve

constrained. Not knowing if I’d be trapped and left to starve to death. The days left alone with nothing to do except wait, wondering if my life would be

inside