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.

a

worst possible scenario

look after me is the very same person who would kill me the second he found out the truth about what’d

in more danger than I

and don’t stop running until I’ve left Rathborn

National Forest where humans come to go hiking and

want to go back–especially

what to do.

nowhere else to go.

possessions, no

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

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

from the forest, coming out

urge to cry as my thoughts spin in circles and I can’t come up

kiss Axel earlier.

wanted to surrender my

is, even knowing now who

longs for her mate.

Goddess tie me

did I do to deserve such a

hope you don’t mind me saying, but

lovely look so sad?”

my left and look

the gloss of a raven’s wing and

Alpha began his horrible experiments on me—so I can’t tell if the man is another wolf, human,

holds up his hands to indicate he means no harm, and I realize I’m probably staring at him in suspicion.

can anyone blame me for not

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 my life that I’ve ever

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