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.

proof is standing in a bedroom across

the worst possible

look after me is the very same person who would kill me the second he found

in more danger than I ever imagined.

shift and run, and don’t stop running until

Forest where humans

want to go back–especially with Aaron leaving for

what to

nowhere else to

have no possessions, no money of

account 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 I

of mind, there’s every chance he’s

forest, coming

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

to kiss Axel earlier.

wanted to surrender my body

the worst thing is, even knowing now who he

me–especially my wolf–still longs for

Moon Goddess tie me to

did I do to deserve such a terrible

saying, but it’s such a

can someone so lovely look so

startle at the voice just off to my left and look around to see a tall man standing there.

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

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

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

me

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 my life that I’ve ever

like. something is really bothering you, and I couldn’t keep walking past.”