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.

idea, I’m just not

to get some of the pain and aggression out if

Emily and Jessica are. working in tandem on some of the duties Leah would

and tired, but seems as if she’s having an okay

step up to

shutters, and maybe I’m mistaken, but it seems as if there’s a real spark

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

going to hurt her when I subdued

hallway after she

the bedroom last night make her think I’m no better than the old Roberts alpha who abducted her?

comes out rougher than I mean it

mostly suspicious, but

you have to question everything?” I snap at her. “It’s

but I’m acting in his stead, so my word

lash out like a wounded, cornered animal

I’m not

that locking her

best answer to protect both her

hope we’ll soon see the last of that.

Jessica, who sends her an apologetic look and then turns

shows her hurt,

swiftly followed by rage.

she’ll be able to see the

at a clip expecting Emily to keep

million things to do today once I get Emily set up with her new schedule.

to the entrance of the training ward and huge underground facilities where

was highly impressed the first day here, when Aaron gave me

are excellent, and it’s clear Aaron’s training regimen and expectations of his pack