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.

was a good idea?”

hardens and then I

That bi ch.

I demand, furious. “Wasn’t

Of course it was.

wants to humiliate

idea to Aaron, she made it sound like she cared about

wants to use me to make herself look

Aaron doesn’t see how

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

to us.”

stubbornly, crossing

me out of

doing is acting like a stubborn brat

where he’s still leaning against the wall,

him a narrow-eyed look as

input, but at the same time,

anyway, what right does Axel have, putting in his

say in what

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

eyes flash and his body tenses. But he doesn’t

a deep breath like he’s

patience as he can.

apologize. And that sharp pang of hurt

and you will 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.

like the

Aaron spins on his heel and marches out of the room, while I sag against the nearby

kidding,” Axel drawls. “People around these

when she used to

news makes me feel a little

glad Aaron treated

deserved it

afterwards. He did it because he thought she was conspiring with her pack against

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

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

know what I’ve

left to starve to death. The days left alone with nothing to

inside those