Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 319

EMILY

I can’t believe the audacity of Axel.

Treating me like a literal child who doesn’t even know the basics of fighting.

Expecting me to train with the beginners who know nothing.

I could probably wipe the floor with all of them, and barely break a sweat.

And now he’s thrown down a challenge.

If I want to get out of this, I have to beat him.

Part of me thinks it’s impossible.

Especially knowing who he really is.

Axel has killed countless vampires and wolves over centuries.

I doubt I pose much of a challenge to him.

However, this feels like yet another punishment he or Aaron has come up with to keep me inline. Forcing me to prove I can still be part of the pack.

that I think maybe if I’m quick

not some fight to the death, after all.

said I only have to take him

his size and arrogance against him.

at where the newbies are beginning some strength

a little quieter,” Axel suggests, and I appreciate it, because if I’m about to be humiliated,

training space to one of the smaller workout rooms off to

a few other bits of equipment on shelves and racks on the walls, but otherwise the mats are clear in the middle of the

then strips out of his shirt, leaving him in a muscle shirt underneath. It shows off the bulging muscles of his biceps and fits snugly to the contours of his chest and

as he steps to the middle of the mats and waits for me.

feel like I detect a hint of humor. “But it only seemed fair to give you the opportunity to

thing is probably rigged against me somehow, but I

of my own shoes and then walk over to

I ask, stretching my arms

a

no

at

life hell at my brother’s request-not to mention the fact he’s a

put you down, I win, right?” I clarify.

“The second I hit

and trying to figure out how hard I’d have to

it’ll probably be like