Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 310

AXEL

Aaron stalks across the hall into the room he gave me to use.

I’m assuming he doesn’t want to leave Emily for long in case she tries to run or decides she’s going to pick up where she left off with Leah.

I have a better understanding now of why Emily hates Leah so much.

The old Roberts Alpha sounds like he was a twisted bastard.

I think Aaron would maybe have more sympathy and understanding for Emily if he knew some of what she went through, but it’s not my place to tell him.

I won’t betray Emily’s confidence like that.

Aaron and Leah leaving for the Old Country for a few days, or a week is probably for the best.

It’ll give Emily some time to adjust without Leah here to constantly remind her of what she went through.

However, I get the sense Emily wasn’t telling me everything.

Like maybe she told me a sanitized version, and there was much

more to it.

Probably things that were even more horrible than what she spoke of.

It’s clear I need to get to the bottom of it all.

Preferably before we have more instances like today.

There are mounting mysteries about Emily that make me think all isn’t as it seems with her.

Something is bubbling under the surface.

and wild.

than just the abduction and captivity, and even the pack wars before that.

need to get out in

I rejected her as my mate, but not because

thought there was

her, the more I

and has the kind of spark I’ve rarely come across in all my long centuries of life.

protect her.

would be better for her

someone like me would be nothing but

I’m immortal and

So, what?

mate her and love her and then get to live one short

spend the rest of eternity missing something–someone–I can never

mind would sign up for

do is too

keep the balance.

the peace between wolves and

line that

assumed that’s why the Moon Goddess never gave me a mate before, because if I lost her and went

happened

thing

I can

well before I have to move on to whatever

exactly what happened,” Aaron says, crossing his arms and taking up a belligerent

know what Aaron is thinking about all this right now. “I was the one

rejected her? When you knew what’d happened to her? When you could see how fragile she was? Did you even stop to think what rejecting your mate would do to my already broken sister?”

he finishes those

Emily’s sake,”

bad for what I did to

it meant protecting