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 bedroom across the hall from my

worst possible scenario for

me is the very same person who would kill me

than I ever

stop running until I’ve left Rathborn pack lands behind me.

in a local National Forest where humans come to go hiking and camping.

want to go back–especially

what to

have nowhere else

no money

card hasn’t arrived in the mail yet, and I’m

chance he’s restricted my access to make it harder

from the forest, coming out on a hiking trail.

I go and sit there, resisting the urge to cry as

wanted to kiss Axel

surrender my body

even knowing

wolf–still longs for her mate.

Moon Goddess tie me to such a man?

deserve such a

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

lovely look so

voice just off to my left and look

a raven’s wing and his eyes are

old Roberts Alpha began his horrible experiments on me—so

means no harm, and I realize I’m probably staring at him

can anyone blame me

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

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