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.

living proof is standing in a

worst possible scenario for me.

has assigned as my guard to protect me and look after me is the very same person who would kill me the second he found out

danger than I ever

and run, and don’t stop running until I’ve left Rathborn pack lands

National Forest where humans come to go

don’t want to go back–especially with Aaron

to do.

nowhere else to

no possessions, no money of my own.

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

chance he’s restricted my access to

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

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

to kiss

my body to

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

wolf–still longs for her mate.

the Moon Goddess tie me to

deserve such a terrible fate?

mind me saying,

so lovely look so sad?”

at the voice just off to my left and look around to see a tall man

like the gloss of a raven’s wing and his eyes are the most startling blue I’ve ever encountered.

up–they’ve been off ever since the old Roberts Alpha began his horrible experiments on me—so I can’t tell

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

blame me for not trusting

was meant to be my mate rejected me, and turned out to not be a simple man

a friendly smile. “You just look like. something is really bothering you, and