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.

thought this was a good

hardens and then I

That bi ch.

was Leah’s idea?” I demand, furious. “Wasn’t

Of course it was.

wants to humiliate

put the idea to Aaron, she made it sound

use me to

doesn’t see how manipulative she

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 be brighter now that you’ve

to us.”

say stubbornly, crossing

me out

you’re doing is acting like a stubborn brat

where he’s still leaning against the

a narrow-eyed look

the input, but at

does Axel

no say in what I

stop speaking. I don’t have to accept my enemies any more than I have to accept you trailing

his body tenses. But he

breath like

patience as he can.

pang of hurt because my brother sees

his voice that makes me

won’t like

Aaron spins on his heel and marches out of the room, while I sag against the nearby counter, feeling like I’ve

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 starved her for days

me feel a little

Aaron treated Leah

deserved it

regretted it afterwards. He did it because he thought she was

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

think that Axel sees me as selfish. Some childish,

doesn’t know what

nights being constrained. Not knowing if I’d be trapped and left to starve to death. The days left

away inside