Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 314

AXEL

I come across Emily just as she tosses the rabbit carcass aside.

A few times when she’s run off on me, I’ve scented traces of blood and assumed she’d been hunting.

The hunting instincts vary from wolf to wolf.

Some have very strong compulsions and regularly shift into wolf form to hunt. Some will even hunt in human form. I’d heard

Tobin was one such wolf.

Others, the compulsion isn’t as strong, so maybe they only hunt under a full moon.

As I watch Emily step over to the river to wash the blood from her hands and mouth, I wonder if she’s always had a high hunter drive, or if this is a new development since her captivity.

I can’t say whether she hunted in human form just now, or whether she had done so in wolf form like usual and had just shifted back when I came upon her.

It probably doesn’t matter in the scheme of things, but if it starts looking like it might be causing issues or getting out of hand,

then I might have to consider talking to Aaron about it.

one more thing about Emily I’ll have to monitor closely.

I can also pick up the quickly dispersing scent of some kind of male.

It’s weak, so I can’t tell if it was another wolf or human.

We’re not far from the public hiking trails the humans use around these parts, so there’s every possibility it was just someone passing by, and they had no interaction with Emily whatsoever.

of me that wants to claim Emily as my mate- mostly my wolf–feels a twinge

reality–I will have to get

Emily as

should the Moon Goddess decide to bestow her a second mate, or anyone else

have no idea how I’m going to handle

around to see

notion of it is enough

Now, I’m fuming.

fact that Aaron and I emerged from our frank talk to realize Emily had run off again.

hadn’t even said anything, but his

to find her right away.

thinking about the fact that Aaron had told me I couldn’t change my mind

his words lightly.

could kill me.

put up one hell of a fight. But there’s every chance with the power of three Alphas at his beck and call, he’d quickly be able to put me down in a way no one else had managed in several

has been drawn in the sand.

is off limits for good, and that’s the way

which direction she’ll need to go in order to get back to

a bored expression on my face, even though inside I’m an inferno of conflicted tensions.

doesn’t have a care in

I don’t think I’ve seen her looking this at ease and carefree since I met her.

have happened in the short amount of time she’s been

clench at the way the light

it possible she is actually afraid of me, and I didn’t

doing out here?” I demand, the accusatory words

appointed you as my minder, but I don’t have

words only inflame my already hot temper.

out and run away again, yes, you do have to tell me what you’ve been doing,” I tell her