Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 301

EMILY

I can’t risk getting any closer, otherwise Axel might sense or

scent me.

But I’m dying from curiosity.

Something is going on here.

I just don’t know if it’s something good or something bad.

I have no idea why Axel would shift and run all the way out here just to intercept those vampires who came to the house to threaten my brother and our pack.

Part of me thinks we should just hand over Leah and the Roberts pack. That would certainly solve our problems.

Aaron isn’t responsible for their bad choices, and he shouldn’t have to pay for them.

I’m not close enough to hear what’s being said, even with my heightened hearing.

The way Axel and the three vampires are all warily regarding each other, I don’t think they know each other.

They’re not acting familiar, so I don’t think Axel was lying when

he told Aaron he a never met these vampires before.

But what the hell could he be talking to them about?

I watch for another few minutes at the heated exchange.

Eventually, however, the vampires get back in their vehicle.

Axel stays standing in the road, watching them as they roll past him and then the luxury sedan quickly disappears into the night.

I have to shift quickly then, and speed off into the darkness, hoping Axel doesn’t scent me when he comes back this way.

sharply from the north with the promise of new snow, so I’m hoping that’ll cover the traces

mansion, trying to figure out what Axel going after the

he could have even needed to say to such

hurry into the bathroom. I strip off my clothes and hurriedly tie a bathrobe around my body, and then stick my head under the shower long enough to wet my hair, so it seems like I’ve been here showering

gone.

extreme, covering the lie of me trailing him with such a charade, but I have no idea how Axel might react if he found out I had followed him and

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dangerous, of that I have no

rejected me as his mate, so I can assume he would protect me from his own wrath if

walks into the room,

own body’s reaction

doesn’t seem to matter to my wolf-or my

makes me feel things I don’t

want things I

so when he’s made it clear that he

same way.

try to force my wolf

for a while,” I say, trying to sound casual.

to turn back to him to read his

Axel is almost impossible

www

he doesn’t even care about having to deal with me one way or the other-and it’s like

glance away again, willing my face

he know I

busy,” Axel eventually says. “So

going to bed now,” I tell him instead

get my PJs

Axel says, before sending me a

my ‘protector’ Aaron gave Axel

a time or two whether Axel sleeps, or if he just lays awake all night and listens for any clues that I might

been tempted to leave, but so far haven’t been

to try.