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

hardens and

That bi ch.

Leah’s idea?” I demand,

Of course it was.

to

idea to Aaron, she made it sound like she cared about me and my

me to make herself

believe Aaron doesn’t see how

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 a new future, one that can

to us.”

I say stubbornly, crossing my arms.

leave me

all you’re doing is acting like a stubborn

Axel puts in from where he’s still leaning against the wall,

him a narrow-eyed look

input, but at the same

does Axel have,

no say in what

babysitter. I 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

his body tenses. But

takes a deep breath like he’s

patience as he can.

sharp pang of hurt because my brother sees me as some

is in your honor and you will attend,” Aaron growls, injecting a powerful note of Alpha power into his voice that

won’t like the

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

not kidding,” Axel drawls. “People around these

to defy him. Even locked her up

me

treated Leah like

deserved it and

He did

another piece of glass shakes free. “I didn’t mention it to suggest it was okay or to make you

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

know what I’ve

nights being constrained. Not knowing if I’d be trapped and left to starve to death. The days left alone with nothing to do

away inside