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.

literal living proof is standing in a bedroom across the hall from

possible scenario for me.

man Aaron has assigned as my guard to protect me and look after me is the very same person who would kill me the

more danger than

running until I’ve left Rathborn pack lands behind

humans come

don’t want to go back–especially

to

else

no possessions, no money

family’s vast finances, but the card hasn’t arrived in the mail yet, and

mind, there’s every chance he’s

from the forest, coming out on a hiking

so I go and sit there, resisting the urge to cry as my thoughts spin in circles and I can’t come up

wanted to kiss Axel earlier.

wanted to surrender my body to him.

the worst thing is, even knowing now who he really is, part

longs for

tie me to such a

to deserve such

me saying, but

so lovely look so

voice just off to my left and

raven’s wing and his eyes are the most startling blue I’ve

been off ever since the old Roberts Alpha began his horrible experiments on me—so I can’t tell if the man is another

hands to indicate he means no harm, and I realize I’m probably

anyone blame me for not trusting anyone?

and tortured for ten years, then the man who was meant to be my mate rejected me, and turned out to not be a simple man at all, but the biggest threat to

look like. something is really bothering you, and