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.

to claim Emily as my mate- mostly my wolf–feels a twinge of jealousy at the stray thought she might have met

reality–I will have to get

as

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

have no idea how I’m

I won’t be around

of it is enough to set my

Now, I’m fuming.

that Aaron and I emerged from our

but his narrow–eyed look had spoken

find her right

thinking about the fact that Aaron had told me I couldn’t change my mind about rejecting Emily as my male–not

his

kill me. Well,

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

line has been drawn in the

off limits for good, and that’s

direction she’ll need to go in order to get back to Rathborn

a tree with a bored expression on my face, even though inside

strolling along like she doesn’t have a care in the world.

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

amount of time she’s

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

she is actually afraid of me, and I didn’t even

the accusatory

you as my

words only inflame my already hot temper.

to tell me