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.

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

a thought–a reality–I

as

decide to bestow her a second mate, or anyone else she finds attractive enough to

no idea how I’m going to handle

won’t be around

is enough

Now, I’m fuming.

by the fact that Aaron and I emerged from our frank talk to

said anything, but his narrow–eyed

needed to find

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 so,

don’t take his

kill me. Well, he

at his beck and call,

the line has been

limits for good, and that’s the way it should

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

tree with a bored expression on my face, even

like she doesn’t have a care

I don’t think I’ve seen her looking this at

the short amount of time she’s been

at the way the light immediately dims in her eyes, being replaced by something too close to fear for my

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

have you been doing out here?” I demand, the accusatory

as my minder, but I don’t have to tell you

words only inflame my already hot

you do have to