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.

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

worst possible scenario for

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

more danger than I

running until I’ve left

in a local National Forest where humans come to

go back–especially with Aaron leaving for

what to

else to

no money of my

for me to access the family’s vast finances, but the card hasn’t arrived in the mail yet, and I’m not even sure

of mind, there’s every chance he’s restricted my

from the forest, coming out on a hiking

nearby overlooking a small river, so I go and sit there, resisting the urge to cry as my thoughts spin in circles and I

kiss Axel earlier.

to surrender my body to him.

worst thing is, even knowing

my wolf–still longs for her mate.

Moon Goddess tie

did I do to deserve such a

mind me saying, but it’s such a beautiful day,

so lovely look so

and look

hair is like the gloss of a raven’s wing and his eyes are the most startling blue I’ve

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

man holds up his hands to indicate he means no harm, and I realize I’m probably

me for not trusting anyone?

I was abducted, held 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

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