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.

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

is a thought–a reality–I will

as my mate.

to go find another mate, should the Moon Goddess decide to bestow her a second mate,

I’m going to handle that.

be around to see

vague notion of it is enough to

Now, I’m fuming.

not helped by the fact that Aaron and I emerged from

but his narrow–eyed

to find her right away.

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 did so, he would kill

his words

could kill me. Well, he could try.

three Alphas at his beck and call, he’d quickly be able to put me down in a way no one else had managed

the line has been drawn

off limits for good, and that’s the way

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

tree with a bored expression on my face, even though

strolling along like she doesn’t have

her looking this at ease and carefree since

time

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

of

you been doing out here?” I demand, the

my minder, but I don’t have to tell

words only inflame

out and run away again, yes, you do have to tell me what you’ve been doing,” I tell her heatedly in return.