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.

is standing in a bedroom

the worst possible scenario for me.

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

than I ever imagined.

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

where humans come to go hiking

to go back–especially with Aaron leaving

what to

else to

possessions, no money of

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

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

shift and emerge from the forest, coming out on a

a bench nearby overlooking a small river, so I go and sit there, resisting the urge to cry as my thoughts spin in circles

to kiss Axel earlier.

to surrender my body to

knowing now who he

my wolf–still longs

tie me

I do to deserve such a terrible fate?

hope you don’t mind me saying, but

someone so lovely look so

at the voice just off to my left and look

gloss of a raven’s wing and

been off ever since the old Roberts Alpha began his horrible experiments on me—so I can’t

he means no harm,

blame me for

me, and turned out to not be a simple man at all, but the biggest threat to my life that I’ve ever

with a friendly smile. “You just look like. something is