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.

literal living proof is standing in a bedroom across the hall

possible scenario for

after me is the very same person who would kill me

in more danger than I

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

humans come to go hiking and

back–especially

to do.

else to go.

have no possessions, no money of my

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

my fragile state of mind, there’s every chance he’s restricted my access to

shift and emerge from the forest, coming out

small river, so I go and sit there, resisting the urge to cry as my thoughts spin in circles and I can’t come up with

kiss Axel earlier.

wanted to surrender my body to him.

even knowing now who he

my wolf–still longs

Goddess tie

deserve such

don’t mind me saying, but it’s such a

can someone so lovely

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

his horrible experiments on me—so I

holds up his hands to indicate he means no harm, and I realize

can anyone blame me for not trusting anyone?

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

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