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.

mate- mostly my wolf–feels a twinge of jealousy at the stray thought she might have

reality–I

rejected Emily as

another mate, should the Moon Goddess decide to bestow her

idea how I’m going to

be around to

the vague notion of it is enough to

Now, I’m fuming.

the fact that Aaron and I emerged from our frank talk to realize Emily had

hadn’t even said anything, but his narrow–eyed look

to find

left to track her, barely thinking about the fact that Aaron had told me I couldn’t change my mind about rejecting Emily as my male–not that I ever would–and if I did

take his words

really could kill me. Well, he

Alphas at his beck and call, he’d quickly be

been drawn in the

for good, and that’s the way

and figure out which direction she’ll need to go in order to

bored expression on my face, even though

strolling along like she doesn’t have a care in the

I’ve seen her looking this at ease and

of time she’s been gone to improve her mood

light immediately dims in her eyes, being replaced by something too

is actually afraid of me, and I didn’t

here?” I demand, the accusatory words slipping out before

as my minder, but I

only inflame my

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