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.

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

is a thought–a reality–I will have to

as my

Goddess decide to bestow her a second mate, or anyone else she

how I’m going

be around to see it.

of it is enough to set my

Now, I’m fuming.

emerged from our frank talk to realize Emily had run off again.

said anything, but his narrow–eyed look had spoken

needed to find her

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

don’t take his words

really could kill me. Well, he

of three Alphas 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

good, and that’s the

her and figure out which direction she’ll need to go in

expression on my face, even though

comes strolling along like she doesn’t have a care in

think I’ve seen her

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

short when she sees me and my insides clench at the way the light immediately dims in her

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

doing out here?” I demand, the accusatory

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

insolent words only inflame my already hot

sneak out and run away again, yes, you do have to tell