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 worst possible scenario for

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

danger than I

don’t stop running until I’ve left Rathborn pack lands behind

local National Forest where humans come to go hiking and

back–especially

what to

else to

possessions, no money of my own.

card hasn’t arrived in the mail yet, and I’m not even sure I have full access

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

the forest, coming out on a hiking

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

to kiss Axel earlier.

wanted to surrender my body

even knowing now who he really is,

my wolf–still longs

Moon Goddess tie me to such a man?

to deserve such a terrible fate?

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

so lovely look

off to my left and look around to

is like the gloss of a raven’s wing and his eyes are the

since the old Roberts Alpha began his horrible experiments on me—so

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

me for

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

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