Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 308

I can see Axel is confused by what I’ve just said.

“How can Leah be the reason you were abducted? She was just a child,” Axel says, but his voice isn’t judgmental or critical, just

curious.

I think then he might actually listen to me and understand where I’m coming from.

“The Roberts Luna was killed,” I tell him, the memories of that time coming back to haunt me.

Really, those memories never left me. It’s not like I had much else to think about during those ten years I was locked up.

“And then both my parents were killed,” I continue, a lump rising in my throat. “The number of wolves who’d already died was getting higher and higher, and other packs were beginning to get pulled into the conflict. The Council decreed that peace needed to be reached. They decided in favor of the Rathborn pack and told the old Roberts Alpha he needed to hand Leah over to be Aaron’s future bride. Of course, it wasn’t like Rathborn pack came away from it much better off. My brother had to sacrifice his life and his true love, Jessica.”

“I still don’t see what that has to do with you,” Axel says, brow creasing in confusion.

glance away from him, trying not to let the memories overwhelm me.

I’d barely been old enough to be fighting in the war myself.

I’d only just turned seventeen, but after my parents were killed, I swore I would get my revenge.

Instead, the Old Roberts Alpha used me for his own revenge.

territory. We got ambushed. The Roberts Alpha and what was left of his best fighting wolves slaughtered the other pack members I was with, and abducted me. It was

so sorry you went through that, Emily,” Axel says in a low voice, and I can tell he means it,

Aaron had Leah, so the Alpha Roberts had me.

me, but twice as bad-”

like I can’t breathe

the panic, to the feeling of helplessness.

To the torture.

only

days, when he’d withhold food, or beat me, or make me sleep

used to hope my pack was treating Leah as badly, because it was

brought nothing but death and misery to

would just leave her alone

and then Aaron had actually

to tell me–raging about it- I’d refused to believe it.

Aaron would find some way

to the Council and get the ruling reversed.

old Roberts Alpha had

his research, and

can’t let my thoughts go any deeper into that

Axel says gently. “You don’t

calming breath and look up at him, but then

close, less than