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.

wants to claim Emily as my mate- mostly my wolf–feels a twinge of

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

rejected Emily as my

to bestow her a second

have no idea how I’m going to handle that.

around to see

of it is enough to set my

Now, I’m fuming.

and I emerged from our frank talk

even said anything, but his narrow–eyed look had spoken volumes.

needed to find her right

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

take his

me. Well, he

with the power of three Alphas at his beck and call, he’d quickly be able to put me down in

the line has been drawn

off limits for good, and that’s the way it

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

with a bored expression on my face, even though inside I’m

like she doesn’t

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

time she’s been gone to improve

my insides clench at the way the light immediately dims in her eyes, being replaced by something too close to fear

of me, and

the accusatory words

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

words only inflame my already

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