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.

the part of me that wants to claim Emily as my mate- mostly my wolf–feels a twinge of jealousy at the stray thought

is a thought–a reality–I will have

rejected Emily as my

Moon Goddess decide to bestow her a second mate, or anyone else she finds attractive enough to

no idea how I’m going

be around to see

just the vague notion of it is enough to set my blood

Now, I’m fuming.

the fact that Aaron and I emerged from our frank talk

his narrow–eyed look had spoken volumes.

find her right

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

his words lightly.

really could kill me. Well, he

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

been drawn

off limits for good, and that’s the

and figure out which direction she’ll need

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

strolling along like she doesn’t have a care

realize I don’t think I’ve seen her looking this

happened in the short amount of time she’s been gone to improve her mood so drastically?

sees me and my insides clench at the way the light immediately dims in her eyes, being

is actually afraid of me, and

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

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

inflame my already

have to tell me what you’ve been doing,” I tell her