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.

a twinge of jealousy at the stray thought

a thought–a reality–I

Emily as

Goddess decide to bestow

I’m

won’t be around to

the vague notion of it is enough to set my

Now, I’m fuming.

and I emerged from

even said anything, but his

needed to find

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

take his

kill me. Well, he could try.

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

line has been drawn in the sand.

for good, and that’s the way it should be.

from watching her and figure out which direction she’ll need

against a tree with a bored expression on my face, even though

Emily comes strolling along like she doesn’t have a care in the world.

seen her looking this at ease and carefree since I

in the short amount of time she’s been gone

and my insides clench at the way the light immediately dims in her

afraid of me, and I didn’t

the accusatory words slipping out before I

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

words only inflame my already hot temper.

to tell me what you’ve been doing,” I tell her