Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 312

EMILY

As soon as Axel confirms he is in fact Axiel Mercier, the legendary vampire slayer, I turn and run, no idea where I’m going, just knowing I need to get out of the house.

I had told the doctor I wanted to tell Aaron something–which was partially true–I’d decided in the bathroom I needed to tell Aaron I didn’t care about Axel rejecting me, that I didn’t want to be his mate after all.

How true those thoughts had turned out to be.

I’d gotten as far as the hallway when I’d heard Aaron shouting at Axel about him rejecting me, and then paused outside the door as Axel had told Aaron there were things about him that Aaron didn’t know.

Dangerous things.

It wasn’t my fault their voices had carried so clearly.

And okay, maybe I shouldn’t have been eavesdropping.

But after Axel’s reply, my curiosity had gotten the better of me, so I’d loitered, holding my breath, wondering what could be so terrible and dangerous that Axel had apparently rejected me for my own good.

A

Would turn out to be none

other than a notorious, immortal slayer.

Axiel Mercier is like the human bogeyman for young wolves. We got old scary bedtime stories about him.

Be a good wolf or Axiel Mercier will come for you.

A lot of wolves don’t even believe he actually exists.

Stories about him petered off in the last hundred years or so. People began to believe that maybe he’d been killed.

is standing in a bedroom across the hall from my own room.

worst possible

to protect me and look after me is the very same person who would kill me the second he found out the truth about what’d happened to

in more danger than I

don’t stop running until I’ve left

in a local National Forest where humans come to

want to go back–especially with Aaron leaving for

to

have nowhere else

no possessions, no money of my

but the card hasn’t arrived in the mail yet, and I’m not

my fragile state of mind, there’s every chance he’s restricted my access to make it harder for me

shift and emerge from the forest, coming out on a hiking trail.

I go and sit there, resisting the urge to cry as my

to kiss Axel

wanted to surrender my body to

even knowing now who he really

longs for her

the Moon Goddess tie me

do to deserve such a

mind me saying, but it’s

so lovely look

just off to my left and look

gloss of a raven’s wing and his eyes are the

his horrible experiments on me—so I can’t tell if the man is another

to indicate he means no harm,

can anyone blame me for not trusting

held and tortured for ten years, then the man who was meant to be my mate rejected me, and turned out to

something is really bothering you, and I couldn’t