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.

standing in a bedroom across the hall from

possible scenario for me.

is the very same person who would kill me the second he found out the truth

in more danger than

and run, and don’t stop running until I’ve

where humans come to go hiking and

to go back–especially with Aaron leaving for

what to

have nowhere else to go.

no possessions, no money

the family’s vast finances, but the card hasn’t arrived

chance he’s restricted my access to make it harder for me to

shift and emerge from the forest, coming out

and sit there, resisting the urge to cry as my thoughts spin in circles and

wanted to kiss Axel

wanted to surrender my

even knowing now who he really is, part

longs

Moon Goddess tie me to such

do to deserve such

hope you don’t mind me saying, but it’s

can someone so lovely look

startle at the voice just off to my left and look around to see

wing and his

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

no harm, and

blame me for not

meant to be my mate rejected me, and turned out to not be a simple man at all, but the biggest threat to my life

he says with a friendly smile. “You just look like. something