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.

a twinge of jealousy at

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

as my mate.

bestow her a second mate, or anyone else she finds attractive

have no idea how I’m going

I won’t be around to

notion of it is enough to set my blood

Now, I’m fuming.

the fact that Aaron and I emerged from our frank talk

his narrow–eyed look had

to find her right

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

take his words lightly.

kill me. Well,

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

line has been drawn in

is off limits for good, and that’s the

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

with a bored expression on my face, even

Emily comes strolling along like she doesn’t have a care

I don’t think I’ve seen her looking

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

light immediately

is actually afraid of me, and

out here?” I demand, the accusatory words slipping out before

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

only inflame my already

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