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

the worst possible scenario

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

danger than I

don’t stop running until I’ve

humans come to

back–especially

what to do.

have nowhere else to go.

have no possessions, no money of my

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

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

and emerge from the forest, coming out on a hiking

urge to cry as my thoughts spin in circles and I

kiss

to surrender my body to

is, even knowing now who he really

longs for her mate.

could the Moon Goddess tie me to

did I do to deserve such a

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

can someone so lovely look so

and look around to see

the gloss of a raven’s wing and his eyes are the most startling blue I’ve ever

his horrible experiments on me—so I can’t tell if the man

man holds up his hands to indicate he means no harm, and I realize I’m probably staring

can anyone blame me for

rejected me, and turned out to not be a simple man at all, but the biggest threat to my life

smile. “You just look like. something is really bothering