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.

standing in a bedroom across the hall from

worst possible scenario

the very same person who would

in more danger than I ever imagined.

don’t stop running until I’ve left

in a local National Forest where humans come to

go back–especially with

to do.

have nowhere else to

have no possessions, no

finances, but 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

forest, coming out on a hiking trail.

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

kiss Axel

my body to

thing is, even knowing now who he really

my wolf–still longs for her mate.

Goddess tie me to such a man?

deserve such a terrible fate?

mind me saying, but

so lovely look so

voice just off to my left and look around to see

hair is like the gloss of a raven’s wing and his eyes are the most startling

old Roberts Alpha began his horrible experiments on me—so I can’t tell if the

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

anyone blame me for not

I was abducted, held and tortured 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,

look like. something is really