Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 315

EMILY

Axel is infuriated, and I think he must have seriously heightened senses to be able to smell Ronan on me when we barely touched for more than a few seconds.

“No one!” I yell angrily–though that anger is fed by a healthy dose of fear now that I know who Axel really is.

“Tell me the truth, Emily!” he growls menacingly.

“Fine!” I yank harder, and this time he releases me, and I stumble a step. But he crowds closer to me until I’m backed up against a tree with no means of escape.

“It was just some guy,” I lie, hoping he can’t somehow tell I’m not telling him the truth. “I tripped over on the trail up there, and he helped me up. That’s all. It was just some stranger. We barely even spoke!”

Axel stares at me, eyes hard, glittering and threatening.

I half think he’s going to run off and track down Ronan to ask him for his version of events.

However, Axel doesn’t do any of those things.

Instead, he moves back just enough to give me room to breathe.

Still, I don’t know whether he believes me, or knows I’m lying.

“Shift, now. We’re heading back to the mansion.” Somehow, his already intimidating stare becomes even more threatening. “And don’t even think about running off on me again. You won’t like the consequences.”

Part of me wants to defy him.

I wish I was brave enough–like Ronan had said–to ignore his threats, to shift and run and escape him and my brother and their stupid suffocating rules.

But I’m not that brave.

not today.

Axel so aptly pointed out, I’m reliant

clothes and food and pretty

have to live in the human world, and likely be homeless.

I could petition the Council to join another pack, but that

the monster within

fear

secret.

Axel might somehow find out and come for me, just like we were warned in

basically running the Council now with his status as a wolf with the power of

block or stop any petition I might put to the

So I’m trapped.

as effectively as I was living in that isolated house all

so hard and fast and I

be weak. I won’t. Never

tears have Axel’s features changing and I shove away from him and shift before I can

his own. He’s squatting, watching me. And I don’t dare let

I run.

over the terrain. The scents I encounter are

don’t traipse much near the public parks

back home, I don’t bother to shift until I’m inside and in my room. I’ve been gone most of the day and

find out Aaron and Leah have already packed and left for Romania, I try not to feel

was my own fault I wasn’t here to say goodbye, and

didn’t think

our own jet, he easily could have asked to

left, and it feels like Aaron is telling me how high his

to say low to the point of not caring.