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 from

possible scenario for me.

guard 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

more danger than

shift and run, and don’t stop running until I’ve

humans

to go back–especially with Aaron

to do.

have nowhere else

have no possessions, no money of

access the family’s vast finances, but the card hasn’t arrived

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

and emerge from the forest, coming out on a hiking

I go and sit there, resisting the urge to

wanted to kiss Axel

to surrender my body to

worst thing is, even knowing now

longs for

the Moon Goddess tie me to

to deserve such

mind me saying, but it’s such a

lovely look

and look

hair is like the gloss of a raven’s wing and

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

hands to indicate he means no harm, and I

me for not trusting anyone?

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

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