Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 318

AXEL

I’ve been checking in on Emily all morning.

From å distance.

Staying away so she wouldn’t be aware I was still closely monitoring her.

I asked Jessica to keep an eye on her, knowing Emily wouldn’t welcome my presence after what I was forced to do last night.

I didn’t want to lock her in her bedroom like that.

Lknow a thing or two about captivity, and it literally would have been her worst nightmare, having her power and freedom stolen away like that.

But it was what Aaron decreed needed to happen to keep Emily secure while he was away.

I think Emily attacking Leah was the last straw for Aaron, and I wonder what he’s going to do about his sister when he eventually gets back from Romania.

Last night, I’d sat outside her door in the hallway as she’d raged and screamed and cried until she’d given up in exhaustion, and I’d hated myself every second of every minute for doing that to her.

gone.

I spent most of last night and this morning-when I wasn’t dealing with pack issues-trying to think of ways I could help Emily.

She needs to be able to prove to Aaron that she’s working through things in a healthy way, and I don’t think simply seeing the pack therapist is the answer.

Especially when it comes to her need to shift and run.

I wish I could let her roam to her heart’s content, but with the new threat posed by vampires, it’s just not safe.

come up with an idea, I’m just not sure

get some of the

I go to where Emily and Jessica are. working in tandem on

if she’s having an

I step up to them, Emily’s expression

but it seems as if there’s a real spark of fear in

been questionable, but I don’t understand what I did to make her truly

hurt her when I subdued her

the hallway after she

did locking her in the bedroom last night make her think I’m no better

comes out rougher than I mean it to. “Come with

but

I snap at her. “It’s time you learned what it means to obey your Alpha.”

not her Alpha, but I’m acting in his

and defy everyone and lash out like

I’m not

Aaron decided that locking her

answer to protect both her and the rest of the pack from her self-destructive

I hope we’ll soon see

to Jessica, who sends her an apologetic look and then

that, Emily’s expression shows her hurt,

are swiftly followed

be able to see the benefit of what I’m about to

the house at a

today once I get

of the training ward and

impressed the first day here, when

clear Aaron’s training regimen and expectations of his pack members are high.