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.

least not

Axel so aptly pointed out, I’m reliant upon Aaron for a

and pretty

to live in

could petition the Council to join another pack, but that wouldn’t solve my problems.

still be hiding the monster within me.

live in fear that someone might discover my

secret.

me, just like we were warned in those

basically running the Council now with his status

block or stop any petition

So I’m trapped.

as I was living in that

and fast and

weak. I won’t.

and I shove away from him and shift before I can allow myself to even contemplate

own. He’s squatting, watching me. And

I run.

terrain. The

don’t traipse much near the public parks and the state preserves don’t typically see too many visitors this far out. Why

room. I’ve been gone most of the day and it’s almost dark by the

and Leah have already packed and left

wasn’t here to say goodbye, and Aaron probably

honestly didn’t think about

had been booked to take off. And because it is our own jet, he easily could

and it feels like Aaron is telling me how high his regard is

to the point