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.

my mate- mostly my wolf–feels a twinge of jealousy

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

rejected Emily as my

Goddess decide to bestow her a second mate, or anyone

how I’m

I won’t be around to see

of it is enough to set my blood boiling.

Now, I’m fuming.

not helped by the fact that Aaron and I emerged from our

hadn’t even said anything, but his narrow–eyed look had

find

about the fact that Aaron had told me I couldn’t change my mind about rejecting Emily

take his

probably really could kill me. Well, he could try.

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

been drawn in the

and that’s the way it should be.

she’ll

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

like she doesn’t have a care

her looking this at ease and

happened in the short amount of time

my insides clench at the way the light immediately dims in her eyes, being replaced by

afraid of me, and I didn’t even

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

appointed you as my minder, but

words only inflame my already hot temper.

again, yes, you do have to tell me what you’ve been doing,” I