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.

Emily as my mate- mostly my wolf–feels a twinge

reality–I will have

rejected Emily as

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

have no idea how I’m going to

I won’t be around to see

vague notion of it is enough to set my blood

Now, I’m fuming.

Aaron and I emerged from our frank talk to realize Emily had run off

said anything, but his

to find

told me I couldn’t change my mind about rejecting

take his words

probably really could kill me. Well, he

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 had

has been drawn

good, and that’s the

which direction she’ll need to go in order

a bored expression on my

doesn’t have a

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

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

light immediately dims in her eyes, being replaced by

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

the accusatory words slipping out

defiantly. “Aaron may have appointed you as my minder, but I don’t have to

inflame my

to tell