Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 295

AXEL

Emily is a spitfire. Which is a dan side better than a few minutes ago when she looked like she was going to pass out.

“I know a thing or two about panic attacks,” I tell her in reply.

Her features crease in confusion.

“I wasn’t having a panic attack.”

“You really were, sweetheart. Thought you were going to keel over right there in the middle of that ridiculously fancy ballroom. Who even has a ballroom in this day and age?”

Just as I’d hoped, Emily laughs, and some more color comes

into her face.

“It is kind of ridiculous,” she agrees.

She takes another sip of water, her expression becoming thoughtful.

“You’ve had panic attacks?” she asks me, clearly not sure if

she has any right to question me like that.

ner,

She 188ks & little disappointed. “But

someone I was close to once. Used to have them regularly, and they were way more debilitating. I had to figure out the best way to help. I picked up a trick or two.”

and then is silent for a moment, dropping her

was going

you say anything?”

might not be my mate-only because it’s impossible and I refuse to subject someone as beautiful and fragile as her to a life chained to the likes of me-but

suffer

she replies, her eyes losing

take her chin in my hand and urge her to look back

difference between being good

miserable,” I tell her.

bitterly, before looking

she’s staring out to the

surrounding the ranch, where fields eventually give way to forest and

then bites

you shift and run,” I tell her, reading the longing in her

sense the wildness in her, the

we’ll be able to get her through the rest of the party if she doesn’t release some of that

I might be able to cover for you, at least for a little while. But we need to

I get out my phone and send a message to Aaron, making up an excuse about a torn skirt and we might be a

guessing he’s busy with other Alpha

Leah and Ethan.

past

one sees us going,” I say

spring in

say I’ve made the

her is still strong within me, despite having rejected her and breaking

a curse that Aaron gave me

wonder what he’d say if he knew Emily

that I had rejected her, not wanting someone like me as his sister’s mate? After all, even if the stories aren’t completely true, he’s