Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 316

“Don’t even think about locking me in here, Axel,” I tell him, my voice low and threatening.

Axel crosses his arms and looks on dispassionately, not intimidated by me in the least.

Why would he be?

He’s an impossibly powerful slayer who is reportedly hundreds of years old.

I’m probably nothing more than a gnat to him, small, annoying and inconvenient.

“You’re meeting up with strange men in the woods,” Axel replies, eyes narrowing. “You repeatedly run off no matter how many times we tell you not to, and you attacked your own Luna. You’ve brought this on yourself, Emily. Don’t act like it’s a surprise.”

“I didn’t meet up with anyone!” I shout in frustration. “I told you; it was just some random stranger. And I explained about Leah! I thought you understood.”

“Just because I understand, doesn’t mean I condone your behavior,” Axel replies in a harsh voice. “Aaron left me in charge, and I don’t plan to let him down. Your selfish actions. affect the pack whether you know and care or not. I’ll do

whatever it takes to keep you in line, Emily.”

With that, Axel turns on his heel and strides out of the room.

I rush after him, but he slams the door closed between us before I can get there.

A second later, that’s when I hear the lock clicking into place from the outside.

“No!” I yell furiously. “You can’t do this!”

After that, everything becomes a blur of yelling and crying, but Axel doesn’t come back, and doesn’t open the door.

go through the French doors and climb down from the balcony, but those

anyway, but I’m not that far gone that I can’t see how that would

eventually since I have nowhere else to go, and Axel would probably just lock me in the cellar or some

that makes me shudder, and the fight goes out of me, leaving me calmer,

my pillow for a while, before falling

when the dream starts.

walking aimlessly through the halls of the house, but everything is dusty and feels

is warm and

heart leaps at seeing him, at realizing I’m not alone

you are,” Axel says. “I’ve been

isn’t cold and aloof. He’s smiling, warm and welcoming.

me thinks I should be wary, but I can’t

me up against him, holding me close

I’ve

ever needed.

I finally

me and

look up at him, but before I can say anything, he swoops in and kisses

me–devours me, really, like a drowning man gasping for

consuming and everything a kiss should be.

my body, and for a heady moment I think that if he claims me right now, I wouldn’t deny

to the kiss, Axel suddenly pulls back to look down at me in confusion.

him, suddenly feeling

something about him I’m meant to remember.

Something bad.