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.

of his best fighting wolves slaughtered the other pack members I was with, and abducted me. It was a massacre. And all the bodies they burned. All so they could cover the fact that I was taken, not killed. Aaron and the rest of the pack assumed I was killed that day, just

Emily,” Axel says in a low voice, and I

he took me that the only reason I was there, the only reason I was alive, was because the Rathborn pack had his daughter. It was like some kind of twisted trade in his mind. Aaron had Leah, so the Alpha Roberts had me. He would come and see me

twice

have to stop then, because it’s starting to feel like I can’t breathe again, and I don’t want to go back there.

to the feeling

To the torture.

only the beginning.

or beat me, or make me sleep in a cold dark closet

treating Leah as badly, because it was what she deserved..

pack had brought nothing but death and misery to the

just leave her alone and forget about her, so maybe the old Roberts Alpha would do

up and

tell me–raging

find some

all, to appeal to the

the old Roberts Alpha had really stepped things up.

started his research, and the experiments had begun…

shudder, feeling my stomach churn, and can’t let my thoughts go any

Emily,” Axel says gently. “You don’t have to tell

take a calming breath and look up at him, but then

so close, less than