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 of jealousy at the stray thought she might have

a thought–a reality–I will have to get used to.

rejected Emily as my

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

idea how I’m going to

I won’t be around to see

of it is enough to

Now, I’m fuming.

not helped by the fact that Aaron and I emerged from our frank talk to realize Emily had run

anything, but his narrow–eyed

needed to find her right away.

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

his

really could kill me.

beck and call, he’d quickly be able to put me down

line has been drawn in the sand.

off limits for good, and that’s

watching her and figure out which direction she’ll need to go in order to get back

tree with a bored expression on my face, even though

like she doesn’t have a care in the

I’ve seen her looking this at

the short amount of time

way the light immediately dims in her eyes,

of

demand, the accusatory words slipping out before I

you as my minder, but I don’t have to

insolent words only inflame

yes, you do have to tell me what you’ve been doing,” I tell her heatedly in