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.

pack members because we’d heard yet another group of Roberts wolves had trespassed on our 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

low voice,

so the Alpha Roberts had me. He would come and see me all

me, but twice as bad-”

because it’s starting to feel like I can’t breathe again, and I

the feeling of

To the torture.

only the

beat me, or make me sleep

to hope my pack was treating Leah

had brought nothing but death and

the same time, I started wishing Aaron and the others would just leave her alone

had grown up and

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

convinced that surely Aaron would find some way to get

to the Council and get the ruling

the old Roberts Alpha

started his research, and the experiments had begun…

feeling my stomach churn, and can’t let my thoughts

gently. “You don’t have to tell me anything

look up at him,

less than