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 across the hall from

the worst possible scenario for

very same person who would kill me the second he found out the truth about what’d happened to

than I

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

local National Forest where humans come to

to go back–especially with Aaron leaving for

to do.

else to go.

no possessions, no money of my

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

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

shift and emerge from the forest, coming out on a hiking trail.

urge to cry as my thoughts

to kiss Axel

surrender my body to him.

the worst thing is, even knowing now who he really

wolf–still longs for

tie me to such

did I do to deserve such a terrible

me saying, but it’s such

can someone so lovely look

at the voice just off to my left and look around

wing and his

been off ever since the old Roberts Alpha began 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 at him in

blame me

the man who was meant to be my mate rejected me, and turned out to not

smile. “You just look like. something is