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

the worst possible scenario for me.

assigned as my 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

in more danger than I ever imagined.

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

Forest where humans come

want to go back–especially with Aaron

what to

have nowhere else to go.

possessions, no

the card hasn’t arrived in the mail yet, and I’m not even sure I have full access without Aaron’s

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

shift and emerge from the forest, coming out

overlooking a small river, so I go and sit there, resisting the urge to cry as my thoughts

wanted to kiss Axel

wanted to surrender my body to

the worst thing is, even knowing now

wolf–still longs

the Moon Goddess tie

did I do to deserve such

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

someone so lovely

my left and look around

of a raven’s wing and his eyes are the

my senses are all screwed up–they’ve been off ever since the old Roberts Alpha began his horrible experiments

no harm, and I realize I’m probably staring at him in suspicion.

me for

and turned out to not

with a friendly smile. “You just look like. something is really bothering you, and I couldn’t keep walking past.”