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.

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

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

as my mate.

should the Moon Goddess decide to bestow her a

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

around to see it.

notion of it is enough to set my

Now, I’m fuming.

helped by the fact that Aaron and I emerged from our

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

needed to find her right away.

told me I couldn’t change my mind about rejecting Emily as my male–not that I ever

his words lightly.

kill me. Well,

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

line has been drawn in the

and that’s the way it should

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

my face, even though inside I’m an inferno of conflicted tensions.

strolling along like she doesn’t have a care

think I’ve seen her looking this at ease and carefree since I met her.

short amount of time she’s been gone to improve her

pulls up short when she sees me and my insides clench at the way the light immediately dims in

actually afraid of me, and I didn’t even

demand, the accusatory words slipping out before I

as my minder, but I

only inflame

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