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.

in a bedroom

the worst possible

to protect me and look after me is the very same person who would kill me the second he found out the truth about

than I

until I’ve left

in a local National Forest where humans come

back–especially with Aaron leaving

to

else to go.

have no possessions, no money of my

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

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

from the forest, coming out on a hiking

nearby overlooking a small river, so I go and sit there, resisting the urge to cry

kiss

wanted to surrender my body

the worst thing is, even knowing now who he

my wolf–still longs

the Moon Goddess tie me

do to deserve such a terrible

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

can someone so lovely look

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

wing and his eyes are the most startling

his

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

blame me for not trusting anyone?

my mate rejected me, and turned out to not be a simple man at all,

friendly smile. “You just look like. something is really bothering you, and I couldn’t keep walking past.”