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.

part of me that wants to claim Emily as my mate- mostly my wolf–feels a twinge of jealousy at the stray thought she

however, that is a thought–a reality–I

as my

should the Moon Goddess decide to bestow her a second mate, or anyone else she finds attractive enough to be

how I’m going

around to see it.

just the vague notion of it is

Now, I’m fuming.

I emerged from our frank talk

but his narrow–eyed look had spoken

find her right

fact that Aaron had told me I couldn’t change my mind about rejecting Emily as my male–not

his words lightly.

kill me. Well,

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

line has been drawn in the

limits for good, and that’s the way

watching her and figure out which direction she’ll need

a tree with a bored expression on my face, even though inside I’m an inferno

like she doesn’t have a care in

I realize I don’t think I’ve seen her looking this at ease and carefree

in the short amount of time she’s been gone to

at the way the light immediately dims in her eyes, being

is actually afraid of me, and I didn’t

I demand, the accusatory words slipping out

crosses her arms defiantly. “Aaron may have appointed you as my minder,

insolent words only inflame my already hot

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