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 own

worst possible scenario

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

more danger than I

stop running until I’ve left Rathborn pack lands

in a local National Forest where humans come to go hiking and camping.

don’t want to go back–especially with

to do.

else

no possessions, no money of

account for me to access the family’s vast finances, but the card hasn’t arrived in the mail yet, and I’m not even sure I have

there’s every chance he’s restricted my

emerge from the forest, coming out

resisting the urge to cry as

wanted to kiss

to surrender my body to him.

is, even knowing now who he really is, part

my wolf–still longs for

tie me to such

deserve such a

don’t mind me saying, but it’s such

someone so lovely look

my left and look around

and his eyes are the

off ever since the old Roberts Alpha began his horrible experiments on me—so I can’t tell if the man is another wolf, human, or

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

can anyone blame me for not

for ten years, then the man who was meant to be my mate rejected me, and turned out to not be a simple man at all, but the biggest threat

“You just look like. something is really bothering