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.

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

reality–I will

Emily as

to go find another mate, should the Moon Goddess decide to bestow

how I’m going to

won’t be around to see it.

it is enough to set

Now, I’m fuming.

I emerged from our frank talk to

anything, but his narrow–eyed look had spoken

to find her right away.

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 so, he would kill

his words

me. Well, he could try.

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

been drawn in the

limits for good, and that’s the way

and figure out which direction she’ll need to

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

Emily comes strolling along like she doesn’t

I realize I don’t think I’ve seen her

happened in the short amount of time

she sees me and my insides clench at the way the light immediately dims

actually afraid of me, and I didn’t

I demand, the accusatory

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

words only inflame my already hot

have to tell me what you’ve