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.

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

is a thought–a reality–I

rejected Emily as my mate.

means she’s free to go find another mate, should the Moon Goddess decide to bestow her a second mate, or

idea how I’m going to

around to see it.

is enough to

Now, I’m fuming.

from

said anything, but his narrow–eyed look had spoken

needed to find her

couldn’t change my mind about rejecting Emily as my

take his words

me. Well, he could

at his beck and call, he’d quickly be able to put me down in a way no one else had managed in several

has been drawn in the sand.

limits for good, and that’s

direction she’ll need to

my face,

doesn’t have a care in the world.

as I realize I don’t think I’ve seen her

short amount of time she’s been gone to improve her mood so

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

actually afraid of me, and I

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

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

insolent words only inflame my

run away again, yes, you do have to tell