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.

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

reality–I

as my mate.

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

I’m going to

I won’t be around to

just the vague notion of it is enough to set my blood

Now, I’m fuming.

and I emerged from our frank talk to realize

hadn’t even said anything, but his narrow–eyed look had spoken volumes.

to find her right

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

take his words lightly.

really could kill me.

every chance with the power of three Alphas at his beck and call, he’d quickly be able to

line has been drawn in the sand.

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

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

lean against a tree with a bored expression on my face, even though inside I’m an inferno of conflicted tensions.

doesn’t have

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

amount of time she’s

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

afraid of me, and I didn’t even realize?

you been doing out here?” I demand, the accusatory words

have appointed you as my minder, but I don’t have to

inflame my already

again, yes, you do have to tell me