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

aptly pointed out, I’m reliant upon Aaron for a roof over my

and pretty much everything else in my life.

I would have to live in the human world, and

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

still be hiding the monster

in fear

secret.

and come for me,

his status as a wolf with

would simply block or stop any petition I

So I’m trapped.

effectively as I was living in that isolated house all

hard and fast

weak. I won’t. Never again.

him and shift before I can allow myself to

up my clothes and rolls them into his own. He’s squatting, watching me.

I run.

The scents I encounter

was a complete oddity. We don’t traipse much near the public parks and the state

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

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

my own fault I wasn’t here to say goodbye, and Aaron probably viewed it as me

honestly didn’t

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

like Aaron is telling me how high his regard is for me, and

to the point of not