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.

the literal living proof is standing in a bedroom

worst possible scenario

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

danger than I ever imagined.

until I’ve left Rathborn pack lands behind me.

Forest where humans come to go

back–especially with Aaron leaving for

to do.

else to

no money

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 even sure

about my fragile state of mind, there’s every chance he’s restricted my access to make it harder

from the forest, coming out

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

to kiss

wanted to surrender my body

is, even knowing now who

wolf–still longs for her

tie me to

did I do to deserve such a terrible

mind me saying, but it’s such a beautiful day,

can someone so lovely look

and look around to

wing and

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

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

can anyone blame me for not trusting anyone?

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

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